Ajay Sharma
CEO Founding Partner at Data Shop
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAjay Sharma is a generative AI entrepreneur and data leader with over 11 years of professional experience and a lifelong foundation in computing that began at age five. As CEO and founding partner of Data Shop and former head of AI roles at startups like Kompass.ai and Davinci, he combines hands-on model building with product-minded delivery across UX, backend, and monetizable AI products. He has repeatedly built teams and shipped production AI systems—from early ChatGPT-style transcription models to web3 ad attribution and customer service automation—while serving as interim Head of Data for multiple fast-moving companies. Ajay pairs formal training in applied math and computation from UCLA with practical bootstrapped engineering, recruiting, and teaching experience, including content writing and public speaking on AI. His unconventional background includes long-term travel, high-altitude mountaineering, and extensive meditation practice, reflecting a disciplined, curious approach to problem solving and leadership. He focuses on translating advanced ML into measurable business impact and building diverse teams that can execute end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Science & Technology Magnet, Mathematics Science & Technology Magnet at Sylmar HighUniversity of California, Los AngelesData science Data engineering Machine learning, Data science Data engineering Machine learning at Zipfian Academy
Github Skills (50)
locality-sensitive-hashing8
entity-resolution8
neighbors8
kd-tree8
record-linkage8
matching8
approximate8
entity7
capstone7
data-matching7
lua7
clustering7
python7
golang6
disk6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
asharma567/random_review_stuff
Jun 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
asharma567/Craigslist-Arbitrage
Oct 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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