Shashank Shekhar

8+ years shipping production systems

Experience

2017 – Present

Product-oriented software engineer who owns systems end to end: architecture design, implementation, deployment, and production support. Currently focused on agentic development — AI agents that build, execute, diagnose, and modify applications — built on eight years of enterprise frontend, search, and platform engineering.

CrowdAnalytix

Software Engineer II (Product Systems)

Aug 2019 – Present · Bengaluru

Designed and delivered scalable enterprise systems supporting large-scale catalog and taxonomy platforms.

High-Scale Product Discovery

  • Built search-driven product system supporting 7.7M+ SKUs.
  • Implemented millisecond-level faceted search using Typesense.
  • Designed schema-driven product views and bulk-edit workflows.

Taxonomy & Classification

  • Built hierarchical category management and attribute governance tools.
  • Integrated ML classification predictions into operational dashboards.
  • Reduced manual analyst effort through workflow improvements.

Modernization & Tooling

  • Re-architected legacy UI into modular, reusable component structures.
  • Built reusable SVG tooling (zoom/pan/coordinate export) used across internal tools.
  • Established Docker-based CI/CD pipelines with GitLab Runner, deploying to AWS and GCP.

Environment

Angular, TypeScript, Typesense, FastAPI, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, AWS, GCP

Independent Systems & Applied Engineering

The BuildOS platform and applied AI services

Ongoing
BuildOS & Node Commander2025 - 2026

Designed and released BuildOS Node Commander agentless infrastructure tool. Integrated Tree-sitter code indexes and multi-agent systems to orchestrate container configurations.

AI-Powered Systems & Automation2023 - 2024

Authored visual workflow editor platforms utilizing NL-to-graph translation pipelines. Built automated microservices backed by FastAPI and PostgreSQL.

Product Discovery & Catalog Platforms2021 - 2022

Scaled enterprise catalog systems for CrowdAnalytix indexing over 7.7M+ SKUs. Tuned search results, relevance boosting, and facets with Typesense clusters.

Enterprise Governance Systems2019 - 2020

Constructed category classification trees and governed attribute dashboards. Interfaced layout boundaries using reusable component layers.

Freelance Developer

Jul 2017 – Jul 2019 · Remote
  • Delivered 15+ web applications end-to-end, including ecommerce builds on WooCommerce, WordPress, and PHP.
  • Managed AWS EC2 deployments and production maintenance.
  • Owned planning, client communication, delivery, and fixes.

Core skills

  • Agentic Development
  • Angular
  • React / Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • FastAPI
  • Typesense
  • Docker
  • CI/CD (GitLab)
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Product Catalog Systems
  • Taxonomy Applications
  • AI Workflow Tools
  • Search Interfaces
  • Frontend Architecture

Education & Certifications

  • MCA — BBAU University, Lucknow (2014 – 2017)
  • B.Sc. IT — Amity University, Lucknow (2011 – 2014)
  • Architecting with Google Kubernetes Engine: Foundations (2021)
  • Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure (2021)
  • Getting Started With Docker (2019)