I teach machines to read ancient manuscripts, understand 330+ languages, understand spaghetti code, and stop hallucinating about Bitcoin.
🔬 Research Scientist @ American Express • 🛠️ Maintainer of CodeGraphContext • 🎓 IIT (BHU) Varanasi
I build things at the intersection of LLMs, agents, and retrieval — and I like my AI systems the way I like my code: grounded, fast, and reproducible.
class Shashank:
def __init__(self):
self.role = "Research Scientist @ AmEx"
self.obsessions = ["Agentic AI", "RAG", "MCP", "Inference optimization"]
self.currently = "Making agentic evaluations better and automated"
self.side_quest = "Mentoring GSoC 2026 contributors @ HumanAI"
def fun_fact(self):
return "My OCR models read 200-year-old Spanish documents better than I read my own handwriting"CodeGraphContext — a CLI toolkit + MCP server that indexes your codebase into a knowledge graph so AI assistants can actually understand your code instead of guessing.
📦 225k+ downloads · ⭐ 4k+ stars · 👥 150+ contributors — all in 12 months
| When | What | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 → | Research Scientist — Agent Evals | American Express |
| 2026 | Built sktime-mcp — an MCP engine for time-series forecasting |
Sktime |
| 2025 & 2024 | GSoC Contributor → now Mentor — OCR for historical archives (97% accuracy) | HumanAI |
| 2025 | RAG for Bitcoin dev tooling · SQLite engine in C++ | Summer of Bitcoin |
| 2025 | Multilingual search across 53k storybooks in 330+ languages | Pratham Books (C4GT) |
| 2024 | PII anonymization pipelines for telecom data | Linux Foundation (LFX) |
| 2024 | Fashion trend prediction with transfer learning | Blue Yonder |
🥇 NLP.py @ IIT Kharagpur · 🥇 National Winner, Blue Yonder Crystal Ball · 🏅 Best Knowledge Graph RAG @ Hypermode Challenge · 🥈 Low Code ML @ IIM Ahmedabad · 📄 Published: OCR Approaches for Humanities (95% char-level accuracy) · 📊 Kaggle dataset featured on Global Trending
Core: Python · C/C++ · TypeScript · SQL
AI/ML: PyTorch · JAX · Hugging Face · vLLM · Unsloth
Agents & RAG: LangGraph · LlamaIndex · DSPy · MCP SDK · ChromaDB · FAISS · Neo4j
Infra: FastAPI · Docker · PostgreSQL · GCP
⚡ Ask me about RAG, MCP servers, or why your agent keeps calling the wrong tool.