Samagra Sharma is a founder and pragmatic AI engineer with 9 years of experience building products and research-driven systems, currently leading TensorFuse (YC W24) from San Francisco. He blends machine learning research (internships at Adobe and UC Santa Barbara) with hands-on engineering across back-end and Android, contributing to notable open-source projects like the Java AIMA implementation and the Open Food Facts Android app. His work on AIMA included testing frameworks, planning data structures and parsers under mentorship connected to Peter Norvig, signaling deep algorithmic fluency beyond typical startup CTO skillsets. A former founding-team engineer at Aerotime and Google Summer of Code mentor, he pairs startup execution with academic rigor from IIT Roorkee.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
CBSE - 12th Standard, High School/Secondary Certificate Programs, 94.3 %, CBSE - 12th Standard, High School/Secondary Certificate Programs, 94.3 % at Shiv Jyoti Senior Secondary School, Rathkankara
10th Standard, High School/Secondary Diploma Programs, CGPA - 10, 10th Standard, High School/Secondary Diploma Programs, CGPA - 10 at Delhi Public School - Vijaipur
Java implementation of algorithms from Russell And Norvig's "Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach"
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:125 commits, 51 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Samagra's commits primarily focus on simplifying and improving the testing framework for the AI algorithms implemented in the repository. The code changes involve modifications to existing test classes related to the N-Queens problem, streamlining the testing process. The user added initial data structures for planning functionalities. Additionally, the user added a parser and supporting methods to the project.
(Legacy) Native version of Open Food Facts on Android - Coders & Decoders welcome 🤳🥫
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:12 commits, 13 PRs, 74 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Samagra primarily contributed to the Open Food Facts Android application, focusing on bug fixes, and code cleanup. They addressed issues like runtime permissions for the camera, fixed connectivity checks in several areas, and removed deprecated API usages. The user made improvements to the codebase by addressing lint errors, removing deprecated methods, and correcting runtime permissions, contributing to the application's stability and maintainability.
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