About

Siddhartha Shah is a skilled software engineer who is passionate about building solutions that make a tangible impact on people's lives. With a focus on machine learning, algorithmic optimization, natural language processing, and operating systems, Siddhartha is fascinated by social networks, gig economies, human psychology, and anything that scales. He has experience co-founding a startup in the food-tech space, trading interest rates as a bond trader in a financial services firm, and working as a software engineer and product designer for mid-stage startups. Currently, Siddhartha works as a 5G Modem software engineer at Qualcomm and is a Software Engineering Intern at Shell Techworks. At Shell, he redesigned optimization algorithms to increase energy savings in industries by 33%, reduced algorithm runtimes from 4.5 hours to 11 seconds, and designed a machine learning pipeline to automate email categorization. He used word2vec to get a 12% accuracy boost over the SVM model without any manual labeling efforts. Previously, Siddhartha co-founded Strado.in, a nightlife discovery platform that reduced dining costs by 60%, and incubated in a government-funded innovation program. He also developed features like restaurant virtual tours, food price graphs to assess affordability, variable weekday-weekend pricing, and more. He reduced user acquisition costs by 90% compared to major competitors like Groupon and acquired more top-rated restaurants and five-star hotels than any other startup. At the Society of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, MNIT Jaipur, Siddhartha served as General Secretary. Siddhartha holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from MNIT. His tech stack includes software engineering, ML, SVM, NLP, product design, and research science. With 5.79 years of relevant experience, Siddhartha is a skilled and motivated software engineer who is always looking to build solutions that make a difference.