Shalin Shah
Founding Scientist at Anvai
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolShalin Shah is a founding scientist and machine learning engineer with eight years of experience building production-grade AI systems across startups and large enterprises like Target and Microsoft. He holds master’s degrees in Applied and Computational Mathematics (JHU) and Computer Science (USC), blending rigorous theoretical foundations in stochastic processes and ML theory with practical expertise in programming languages, algorithms, and distributed systems. At Anvai AI he focuses on LLMs and generative AI—fine-tuning, prompt engineering, RAG, and knowledge-graph-driven question answering for free-form financial queries—bringing structure to unstructured text. Previously he led ML and deep learning efforts for recommender systems, NLP, and vision at Target and worked on search relevance and ranking at Bing. He is comfortable moving between research and productization, combining statistical modeling and computational linguistics to solve real-world problems. Based in Sunnyvale, he maintains an active technical presence (shah314.github.io) that reflects both research rigor and product-first engineering.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical Engineering at Gujarat UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Applied and Computational Mathematics at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (16)
genetic9
knapsack-problem9
genetic-algorithm8
graph-coloring8
journal8
java8
multidimensional8
open-access7
graph7
academia6
creative-commons6
python6
cartesian5
genetic-programming3
computational-neuroscience3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shah314/hard-knapsack-problems
Nov 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
shah314/forecasting
Jul 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:56 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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