Shakeย D
Chief Executive Officer at AI Forward
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
1 year of employment as a software developer
Business Mastery, Business, Business Mastery, Business at Tony Robbins4-Day MBA, 4-Day MBA at Keith CunninghamBA, Joint Honors, Computer Science and Mathematics, BA, Joint Honors, Computer Science and Mathematics at Mount Allison UniversityHigh School (IB), High School (IB) at Pathways World SchoolHigh School, High School at Rishi Valley SchoolMachine Learning Specialization, Machine Learning Specialization at Stanford University
Github Skills (21)
nodejs7
react6
fundamentals6
javascript6
closed4
mvp4
aspose4
chainer3
server3
machine-learning2
python2
data-structures2
tesseract2
tensorflow2
deep-learning2
Programming languages (5)
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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