Summary
Shashank Bharadwaj is a seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable apps across devices and platforms. At Google, he led front-end features for News, Podcasts, and Relaxing sounds serving 500K daily users, contributed to Chromecast's Cast Receiver SDK adding core queuing and default media player UI serving 50M+ users, and helped ship core web frameworks powering Google Home Hub and Nest/Stadia products. He also manages DevOps on-call duties and writes tests to enable reliable, staged releases. Outside Google, he co-organizes one of Silicon Valley's largest Generative AI meetups and hosts a related podcast, fueling community and knowledge sharing. His background includes leadership roles at WorkGenius and RiteTag, delivering cross-platform apps, REST APIs, and backend microservices. He holds a BS in Statistics and Computer Science from UIUC and is based in San Francisco.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Kannada, Hindi, French