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Shashank Singh

Founder of Bakstage.AI

United States

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2022 - Current

    Bakstage.AI transforms any website within minutes into a dynamic hub of real-time engagement, community building, customer education, and data-driven insights by seamlessly blending video, AI, and personalized human interactions.

  • Official Member

    2018

  • Podcaster

    2020

  • CTO

    2017 - 2020

  • Vice President of Engineering

    2015 - 2017

    • Responsible for newly formed Data Management Platform team tasked with defining and building a new DMP platform to be used across Publicis Media for better audience targeting to serve ads • Involved in every step from ideation to execution of products: identifying opportunities, defining the product, creating an iterative roadmap and execution • Built an inventory forecaster tool used by partners for better campaign planning and management using Amazon Kinesis, Apache Spark, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, and applied various estimating algorithms such as HyperLogLog (HLL) etc. Built the UI using Angular2. • Built a brand-new platform to replace a legacy Hadoop based ETL using Apache Spark to make it highly scalable and available. Made the process 3X faster and reduced the cost by 60% • Part of the Run social media team to lead engineering based effort for building RUN brand

  • Co-Founder

    2014 - 2017

    TRUFFLE is a place to share the restaurants you love with friends. It’s just you and your friends, recommending your favorite restaurants by category (e.g. sushi, brunch, date night). With Truffle, you only see places your friends love. No strangers. No ratings. No mediocrity. Leave tips and comments, and save restaurants for checking out later. Discover amazing places right under your nose, and eat like a local when traveling. • Defined and built a scalable and highly available platform using Foursquare, Facebook, Google, Twitter, Parse, Amazon APIs and deployed on AWS infrastructure • Built end-to-end Java based REST APIs for Truffle app

  • Lead Engineer

    2013 - 2015

    Lead Marketplace i.e. Flurry's RTB Exchange for mobile applications, which allows advertisers to bid on available ad impressions in real time.

  • Technical Lead

    2009 - 2013

    • Developed and maintained the firm’s OTC Derivatives (Interest Rate, Credit, Mortgage, Muni products) trade flows systems. Trades are booked in Goldman’s propriety risk management system SecDB and flowed via FpML (XML) to downstream contractual model system which is built using Java and Sybase • Created system to captured trade details via FpML for various Commodities and FX products for reporting to Swap Data Repositories (SDR) due to newly regulated Dodd-Frank Act • Led and architected various reconciliations between heterogeneous systems in front office, middle and back office for derivative trades to manage risks across various systems • Responsible for maintenance and support of flow processes for 14 different derivative businesses. My team was also responsible for managing any flow issues and resolving any exceptions while trade flows to various downstream systems such as Confirmations, Books and Records, Payment Systems • Wrote many complex SQLs for regulatory request and controllers

  • Sr Developer

    2009 - 2009

    Equity Finance

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