# Shashank

> Engineering Lead at Kenpath Labs in Bengaluru, India. He architects and builds whole platforms end to end: models, APIs, infra and the app. Voice AI, agents, evals and the interfaces people actually use.

## About

- Role: Engineering Lead, Kenpath Labs (Kenpath Technologies), Bengaluru. At Kenpath since January 2023.
- Leads engineering end to end: backend, AI and agent APIs, infra and deploys, mobile and web. About 1,500+ commits across four GitHub orgs (Kenpath, kenpath-labs, OpenAgriNet, Societal-Platform-V-Lab).
- Education: BCA, National College Jayanagar, 2019 to 2022.
- Languages: English, Kannada, Telugu.
- Interests: computer hardware, self-hosting, AI agents, small-model fine-tuning, diffusion model fine-tuning, 3D printing, Formula 1.
- GitHub contributions in the last year, across personal and work accounts: 2,633.

## Work

- Svara platform (Kenpath Labs): control plane, inference workers, a load-testing bench, telemetry, an Android reader app, the developer console, admin and the Kenpath Labs website, around an open speech model (Svara TTS Turbo, 82 languages, 20 voices). https://kenpathlabs.com and https://platform.kenpathlabs.com
- Vistaar (Maha Vistaar and Bharat Vistaar): led engineering for the Maharashtra Government farmer assistant (600K+ farmers) and its national version: agentic AI APIs, an MCP server, the app, Beckn integrations, Mem0 and Qdrant memory, an Amul dairy deployment, and contributions to the OpenAgriNet APIs.
- Apurva AI: SaaS for NGOs, 10+ clients. Led engineering across Insights, DIY, Sync and Impact, including meeting bots for Zoom and the browser.
- Invest UP: an AI assistant for investors exploring Uttar Pradesh policies, land and incentives, with a pydantic-ai agent backend.
- Lokah: component library and review app for a human-data platform where contributors do paid tasks on a phone.
- Kenny: internal tools, an org-wide PR dashboard with AI-explained diffs and on-demand reviews, plus meeting-notes utilities.
- Zavmo: B2B EdTech. Built the Angular app from scratch: AI curricula, Keycloak SSO, Storybook, voice input and dashboards.

## Design work

- The InsideOut Studio: website for an architecture and interior design studio in Bengaluru, built with Next.js, Prismic, GSAP and Lenis. https://www.theinsideoutstudio.in/
- Kinko Global (Next.js and WordPress): https://www.kinkoglobal.com/
- RUA Skin and Hair: https://www.ruaskinandhair.com/

## Recognition

- Winner, Peerlist Gen AI Hackathon: music generation with Meta AudioCraft, LLM prompt orchestration and AI album art.
- Runner-up, Ultimate AI Challenge: fine-tuned SDXL on Indian road scenes to make synthetic driving data.

## Links and contact

- Site: https://shashankanil.dev/
- Email: shashankmay6@gmail.com
- Phone: +91 76768 84202
- GitHub: https://github.com/shashankanil (work account: https://github.com/shashank-kenpath)
- X: https://x.com/shashankanil
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashank-anil-61026485/