Shashank Prasanna
AI ML Technologies Evangelism, Worldwide Developer Relations (WWDR)
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShashank Prasanna is an AI/ML developer evangelist with 10+ years building and growing developer communities for leading platforms, currently driving AI/ML technologies and Worldwide Developer Relations at Apple. He blends technical product marketing and hands-on developer advocacy from roles at Modular, Meta (PyTorch), AWS, NVIDIA and MathWorks, helping developers ship ML-powered apps using tools like Core ML, PyTorch, and specialized accelerators. Known for being the "talking engineer," he creates developer education, livestreams, workshops and launch campaigns that translate complex ML tooling into practical developer workflows. He was often the first specialist hire or program lead—shaping developer strategy at startups and hyperscalers alike—which gives him a rare mix of startup agility and enterprise influence. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he pairs an MS in Electrical Engineering with deep experience across ML toolchains, SDKs and open-source ecosystems. Colleagues rely on him to turn product roadmap signals into developer-facing content that accelerates adoption.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Arizona State UniversityB.Tech. Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.Tech. Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (58)
programming-language10
modular10
machine-learning10
reinforcement-learning10
sagemaker10
aws10
ai10
max10
jupyter-notebook10
mojo10
data-science9
pytorch9
python9
inference9
tensorflow9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shashankprasanna/kubeflow-pipelines-sagemaker-examples
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Examples for using Amazon SageMaker components in Kubeflow Pipelines
Contributions:17 commits, 10 pushes in 1 month
amazon-sagemakerkubeflow-pipelines
shashankprasanna/sagemaker-workshop-2021
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Workshop content for Getting Started with Amazon SageMaker
Contributions:17 commits, 14 pushes in 20 days
amazon-sagemaker
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