Summary
Shardul Bansal is a machine learning-focused software engineer and founder with eight years of experience building distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and high-impact community initiatives. Currently a co-founder working on evals for decentralized ML, he previously helped build on Bittensor at Crucible Labs and shipped distributed systems at AWS Cloud Map. He has a track record of turning academic initiatives into large-scale programs—co-leading UofT AI to run a 500+ attendee conference and a $70K ProjectX ML competition spanning 20 universities. Equally comfortable in research and product settings, he blends hands-on engineering with community-building and fundraising chops. Based in Vancouver, he’s especially interested in practical applications of ML across industries and in democratizing model development through peer-to-peer protocols.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Diploma HL: Computer Science Math Physics, International Baccalaureate Diploma HL: Computer Science Math Physics at International School of Lausanne
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at University of Toronto
French, English, Hindi, Swedish