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I am Aditya Shankar, a Full-Stack Software Engineer with around 7 years of experience based in Berlin. I work with TypeScript and Python across frontend, backend, and GPU/AI infrastructure, and I am currently in university studying Artificial Intelligence.
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Aditya's technical expertise and empathy with customers at RunPod have been phenomenal. He played an integral role in assisting the sales team by identifying key pain points and providing customers with top-tier technical insights - helping customers with developing fantastic language and image generation models, while optimizing their models for their preferred use cases, Aditya effectively bridged the gap between clients and the development team, ensuring solutions that improved customer retention. Beyond his technical skills, Aditya has been a fantastic colleague to work with at RunPod.
Adi was an invaluable resource to me in the development of both my Saas products. He developed an early prototype of Repunzel.com, and although we were not able to finish the project together, I continued to rely on his technical advice and expertise for other related projects. He is passionate about technology, loyal, and kind. I would highly recommend Adi for anyone looking for a competent engineer.
Aditya was very easy to communicate with and prompt in his response. He always seemed to be available to answer questions or make changes. He completed the work quickly but also very thoroughly. By far the best experience I've had on upwork and immediately booked another project with him. He will be my go-to developer for the foreseeable future
Aditya stands out for his creative approach to solving customer problems. When faced with new challenges, he willingly goes above and beyond what is expected, finding innovative solutions that benefit both our team and our customers. His development of effective tools has helped us diagnose and resolve issues more quickly. Aditya's readiness to take on extra responsibilities and his genuine care for everyone around him make a real difference every day.
Work Experience
Software Engineer
- A cloud provider specialized for AI services, valued at $1B with over 1 million customers on the platform. One of the first engineers hired and led a team of four.
- Fine-tuned and deployed large language models and diffusion models; advised 1,200 organizations and customers on deploying, optimizing, and productionizing GPU-based VM deployments.
- Worked with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers as well as native CUDA code to optimize model deployment.
- Optimized S3 connections, network storage, and Hugging Face model caching across thousands of machines.
- Wrote numerous technical blog articles for RunPod as well as large parts of the developer documentation for RunPod's Python library.
Berlin, Germany · Remote (Full-time 2023–2024, 20 h/week alongside B.Sc. 2024–2025)
RunPod WebsiteRunPod
2023 - 2025
Software Engineer
- A cloud provider specialized for AI services, valued at $1B with over 1 million customers on the platform. One of the first engineers hired and led a team of four.
- Fine-tuned and deployed large language models and diffusion models; advised 1,200 organizations and customers on deploying, optimizing, and productionizing GPU-based VM deployments.
- Worked with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers as well as native CUDA code to optimize model deployment.
- Optimized S3 connections, network storage, and Hugging Face model caching across thousands of machines.
- Wrote numerous technical blog articles for RunPod as well as large parts of the developer documentation for RunPod's Python library.
Berlin, Germany · Remote (Full-time 2023–2024, 20 h/week alongside B.Sc. 2024–2025)
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