2025 / AI product
InvestInsights.ai
An AI-assisted investment research product that brings filings, market events, and web context into one reviewable workflow.
I’m a software engineer at Salesforce. I build backend systems and applied AI products.
I’m drawn to work where better engineering makes a visible difference to the person using it.
Selected work
2020 / Chrome extension
Google Meet Classic Impersonator
A Chrome extension that replaced live Google Meet video with animated characters using client-side TensorFlow.js and SVG rendering.
2023 / Research
Speech enhancement over networks
CMU research on speech enhancement under network and background noise, evaluated through perceptual quality and intelligibility.
About
I like building software that people use to get real work done. That has meant order fulfillment at Walmart, technical interviews at HackerRank, and messaging infrastructure at Salesforce. AI is now part of my day-to-day workflow for understanding code, comparing approaches, and reviewing changes; I still own the design and final implementation.
Experience
2023 - Present
Salesforce
Software Engineer, MTS → Senior Software Engineer, SMTS
Enterprise messaging infrastructure across APIs, diagnostic tooling, reliability, and full-stack product surfaces.
2022
D. E. Shaw
Software Engineer, Member of Technical Staff
Backend workflow orchestration, with a focus on fault recovery and operational automation.
2019 - 2022
Walmart
Software Engineer Intern → Software Engineer II
Distributed fulfillment systems built around resilient APIs, cloud services, and production operations.
2018
HackerRank
Software Development Intern
Real-time collaboration features for developer interviews, including video and shared development environments.
Education
2022 - 2023
Carnegie Mellon University
M.S. in Intelligent Information Systems, School of Computer Science
Graduate study across machine learning, NLP, deep learning, information retrieval, cloud computing, and large language models. Graduate Teaching Assistant for CMU’s Intro to Deep Learning course throughout 2023.
2016 - 2020
Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
B.E. in Computer Science
Undergraduate work across computer science, software engineering, NLP, and language resources.
Contact
Email is the easiest way to reach me.
shikhar9a [at] gmail [dot] com