Shashank Jakka

Shashank Jakka is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at ShareChat, focusing on Recommendations and Notifications AI since January 2024. Previously, Shashank served as a Software Engineer in Machine Learning at SmartNews from July 2022 to January 2024, where contributions included enhancing Candidate Generator learning models for news ranking at Japan's largest news aggregator. At Mercari, Inc., from October 2019 to May 2022, Shashank improved a Price suggestion micro-service used by 30 million users to price over 3 million listings daily and worked on real-time price recommendations using DeepFM and Multi-armed bandits. Earlier experiences include roles as an Advanced Analytics Intern at Numerify, a Research Intern at Curl Analytics, a Data Science Intern at Envestnet | Yodlee, and a Deep Learning Intern at Least Count Technologies. Shashank holds a Master's degree in Applied Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, earned between 2014 and 2019.