Rush Shahani
Tech Lead, Prospecting at Persana AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRush Shahani is a Tech Lead and founder with 11 years of experience building production-grade AI systems that power search, data enrichment, and agentic workflows for go-to-market teams. As Co-Founder & CTO of Persana AI (YC W23) and now leading Prospecting at Rox, he designs scalable retrieval-augmented systems and LLM-driven agents that turn unstructured signals into actionable sales intelligence. His background includes large-scale search and ML engineering at LinkedIn and Shopify and early NLP work at Element AI, giving him deep expertise in search, embeddings, and real-time data integration. Rush authored LLM Reliability (Manning), reflecting his focus on robustness, monitoring, and hallucination mitigation in deployed models. He also invests as a venture partner at Orange Collective, bridging operator experience with startup-scale strategy. Based in the Bay Area, he blends hands-on engineering with product and research leadership to move experimental AI into reliable enterprise workflows.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
John Fraser SecondaryY CombinatorHonours Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Honours Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (3)
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Github contributions (5)
rusheel/shoutout
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 16 pushes in 6 months
rusheel/rusheel.github.io
Jan 2015 - Nov 2018
Contributions:39 pushes in 3 years 11 months
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