Shashank Shankar
Senior Product Manager at Crusoe
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShashank Shankar is a Product Manager II at Microsoft Azure with 11 years of software engineering and product experience building B2B2C cloud, ML/AI, and API-driven platforms that enable customers to develop their own applications. He combines hands-on backend engineering expertise—from contributing substantial refactors to OpenStack Neutron to shipping cloud features at Intel and Workday—with product leadership that helps customers adopt Azure Blob storage and labelled-data pipelines at scale. Comfortable both in code and strategy, he previously built Kubernetes operators in Go and helped enterprise SaaS expand into GDPR-sensitive regions. He also volunteers as a Venture Partner at GoingVC, sourcing and evaluating early-stage startups, reflecting a strong interest in technology investing and founder-side problems. Based in Mountain View, he balances engineering curiosity (open source, Dota 2, photography) with practical product delivery across cloud and AI domains.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Pre-University Physics, Pre-University Physics at MES PU College of Arts, Commerce and ScienceGoingVCMaster of Science - MS Telecommunications Engineering, Master of Science - MS Telecommunications Engineering at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Engineering - BE Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Telecommunications Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityLarge Language Models for Business with Python (TECH 16), Large Language Models for Business with Python (TECH 16) at Stanford Continuing StudiesSoftware Product Management, Software Product Management at UC Berkeley Extension
English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Sanskrit
Github Skills (12)
databases10
openstack10
orm10
object-mapping10
openstack-neutron10
data-models10
n10
python10
database10
service-design9
sqlalchemy9
service-provider9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Shashank primarily focused on refactoring and relocating database models within the OpenStack Neutron project. Their work involved moving provisioning block and router extra attributes models to address cyclic import issues. This included modifying existing code and introducing new objects for managing router attributes and provisioning blocks. The changes indicate a focus on improving the project's structure and addressing dependency issues.
networkingopenstack
shank7485/Assistant-for-Software-Defined-Infrastructure
Oct 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:136 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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