Sid Shanker
Software Engineer at Baseten
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSid Shanker is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building developer-focused platforms and product features across startups and large tech companies. He has shipped foundational work at early-stage companies like Gumroad and Fin, led Graph Platform initiatives at Twitter, and now builds tooling to help organizations adopt ML at Baseten. Sid thrives on improving developer experience and accelerating team velocity, from autoscaling CI to large infrastructure changes. He combines systems-level CS training from Columbia with hands-on product delivery, often bridging backend services and developer-facing tooling. An active writer, he maintains a technical blog that surfaces practical lessons from production systems. Based in New York, he brings a pragmatic balance of startup grit and scale-oriented engineering.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science-Systems Track, BA Computer Science-Systems Track at Columbia University
Github Skills (145)
python10
refactoring10
serve10
whisper10
falcon10
nlp10
artificial-intelligence10
data-science10
docker10
packaging10
open-source10
machine-learning10
stable-diffusion10
performance-measurement10
boilerplate10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
squidarth/squidarth.github.io
Jan 2014 - Dec 2022
My personal website
Contributions:14 reviews, 150 commits, 7 PRs in 9 years
reactnextjs
squidarth/dotfiles
May 2012 - Sep 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 15 pushes in 10 years 5 months
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