Who I Am
I’m Shashwat Agarwal, a Software Development Engineer and AI enthusiast based in India. I blend engineering rigor with an AI-first mindset to build products that genuinely move the needle.
My career spans Python back-ends, LLM pipelines, conversational AI, and data infrastructure across fast-moving MarTech and mobility startups. Today that means ad-platform automation — the systems that take one campaign configuration and put it to work across every major ad network.
I’ve been inside AI tooling since the GitHub Copilot beta in 2021 — before it was a job title. Moving toward AI work was never an assignment; I pushed for it, because I wanted to find out what it could actually do.
I work as an AI-augmented engineer: AI is a multiplier on engineering judgement, not a substitute for it. That means using it where it genuinely compounds — generation, review, the tedious middle of a migration — while owning the architecture, the failure modes and the production behaviour myself. I adopt these workflows early, keep the ones that survive contact with production, and retain enough depth to catch what the model gets wrong. Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Krishna Engineering College, India (2021).
AI is a multiplier, not a replacement. The engineers who will matter most are the ones who can tell when AI output is wrong — and fix it without asking the AI to fix itself.
Shipping something real beats perfecting something hypothetical. Speed of learning beats speed of building — but you only learn by building something users can break.
The best teams run on trust and clear ownership, not process. We take on deliverables that look impossible on day one, and we aim for the first working implementation rather than the best one — because by the time the best one lands, the requirement has often moved. That pace only works if people are trusted with context instead of managed through a queue.