Sashank Gondala
Co-Founder, CTO at Further AI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSashank Gondala is a founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building language and multimodal AI systems, currently leading Further AI to create vertical AI agents that augment human labor. He combines applied research from roles at Apple and Georgia Tech—publishing on speech and language models and multimodal grounding—with production engineering experience gained at Oracle and Amazon. Comfortable moving between research and product, he has a track record of optimizing large-scale systems (e.g., runtime improvements on BI workloads) and shipping speech/LM innovations. Based in San Francisco and active in the startup community (South Park Commons, YC-backed hiring), he blends academic rigor from IIT Bombay and Georgia Tech with practical startup execution. An interesting thread through his career is repeatedly bridging deep learning research and systems-level performance engineering to make models both capable and deployable.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyIndian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (105)
vector-database10
validation10
fine-tuning10
application10
llm10
cli9
gpt9
nlp9
shell9
highlight9
python9
word-segmentation9
regression9
pytorch9
data-structures9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sgondala/Automix
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:21 commits, 1 push in 3 months
sgondala/sgondala.github.io
Jul 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:63 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
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