- LocationRanchi, Jharkhand, India
- Emailhi@shashankkumar.in
- EducationMCA, PGDCA, B.Sc. Mathematics
I didn't set out to become a developer. I started with mathematics — the discipline of proof and structure — and it's the same instinct that eventually pulled me toward computer science, then software engineering, and now toward AI research.
After a B.Sc. in Mathematics, a PGDCA and an MCA, I moved into full-stack software development — writing production code, shipping client projects, and learning how software actually survives contact with real users. That's taken me through freelance work since 2015 and engineering roles at companies including Maviq Software (most recently, as Senior Full Stack Developer), Shrotam Informatics and Invictus Digisoft. Over 10+ years, that grew into building and architecting full platforms rather than just features.
In 2017 I founded EduSmartUp, an education-technology platform that has since reached 60,000+ learners — live classes, recorded courses, assessments and a community of learners. Around the same time, I became one of the founding members and community leader of Google Developers Group (GDG) Ranchi, and later founded the Indian Developers Group to connect developers across cities. I also mentor founders through the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Council at IIM Rohtak.
Building EduSmartUp and mentoring founders taught me the same lesson from two directions: the hardest part of technology is rarely the code — it's understanding the problem well enough to teach it, and building well enough that it holds up in the real world.
That's what's pulling me toward my current chapter: a PhD in Computer Science at Usha Martin University, with a research focus on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. I'm building two early-stage ventures — BazarBuilder AI and WebAppBazar — as a way of testing AI-research ideas against real products, not just papers. My long-term goal is to become a recognized technology educator, AI researcher and builder — someone who researches, builds, and teaches in equal measure.