Shakeย Dewan
Fractional Chief AI Officer And CTO at Canadian Funding
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolShake D is a CEO and AI leader with 11 years of experience helping startups and mid-market companies turn AI from buzzword to measurable business impact. As founder and CEO of AI Forward and former Deloitte AI lead, he scaled teams, cut delivery times 50%, and closed multimillion-dollar contracts while architecting production-grade ML pipelines. Heโs repeatedly translated research-grade models into revenueโmost notably designing a data platform that helped a Forbes 30 Under 30 fintech scale to $10M+ ARR. Comfortable as a fractional CAIO, founder-CEO, and hands-on engineer, he blends product-first strategy with implementation across NLP, real-time analytics, and automation. An uncommon detail: his flagship deployment accelerator earned endorsement from Googleโs Director of Research and consistently halves project timelines. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs Stanford ML training with entrepreneurial grit to build solutions that scale operationally and financially.
11 years of coding experience
Business Mastery Business, Business Mastery Business at Tony Robbins4-Day MBA, 4-Day MBA at Keith CunninghamBA Joint Honors, BA Joint Honors at Mount Allison UniversityMachine Learning Specialization, Machine Learning Specialization at Stanford University
Github Skills (17)
nodejs7
closed7
react7
aspose6
fundamentals6
javascript6
mvp5
deep-learning3
neuroimaging3
tensorflow3
server3
python2
data-structures2
ocr1
java1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mta-ai/WeeklyReadings
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:51 commits, 12 PRs, 43 pushes in 2 months
ShekharDewan/thesis_code
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Repo for running thesis experiments
Contributions:1 PR, 217 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
thesis
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