Summary
Shirish Jamthe is an independent AI researcher and seasoned technology leader with 17+ years building products and engineering teams across startups and large enterprises, including roles at Google, HGST, and a venture-backed startup he founded. He combines deep product orientation and lateral thinking to tackle massive data problems, especially in the financial investments space where he architected multi-terabyte research databases and sold solutions to CXOs. A hands-on manager and talent builder, he has scaled and led teams of 15–45 people and managed multi-million dollar budgets while hiring senior engineering and product leaders. His background spans systems engineering, product management, and startup CTO experience, with recent upskilling in deep learning and self-driving car technologies via Udacity. Based in California, he enjoys diving into entirely new domains—recently researching stage separation and microgravity topics—bringing an entrepreneurial mindset to applied AI research. Notably, he pairs executive-level strategy (MIT Sloan executive coursework, an MBA) with practical implementation across complex, data-rich environments.
10 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
Deep Learning Nano Degree, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Deep Learning Nano Degree, Machine Learning, Deep Learning at Udacity
MBA, Management, Honors, MBA, Management, Honors at Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Executive Certificate, Management Strategy and Innovation, Executive Certificate, Management Strategy and Innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management
BE, Mechanical, Merit Student (Top 5% of the class), BE, Mechanical, Merit Student (Top 5% of the class) at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan