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title: "Shantanu Das - Senior Software Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Shantanu Das, Senior Software Engineer | Building Production Conversational AI @ LimeChat | MS by Research (IIIT-H) based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes opencode and claudecode."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/shantanu-das/share-image"
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# Shantanu Das on Tal

## Headline

Senior Software Engineer \| Building Production Conversational AI @ LimeChat \| MS by Research \(IIIT\-H\)

## About

AI Engineer specializing in production\-ready conversational systems, agentic workflows, and high\-performance retrieval architectures\. At LimeChat, I bridge the gap between complex AI reasoning and low\-latency production systems \(multi\-agent orchestration, streaming voice/text APIs, and deterministic evaluation systems\)\. Backed by an MS by Research from IIIT\-Hyderabad focused on AI fairness and pricing optimization\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

opencode

claudecode

## Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at LimeChat, Jun 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Architected end\-to\-end multi\-stage reasoning agents and retrieval pipelines\. Optimized context windows, system prompts, and tool\-calling interfaces to cut latency and improve response accuracy in production\. Designed and implemented automated LLM evaluation frameworks to track system performance metrics, reduce hallucinations, and ensure deterministic execution of business logic across thousands of live enterprise conversations\.

Associate Researcher at Department of CSE, IIT Hyderabad, Dec 2022 \- May 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Causally Regularised Probabilistic Models

Research Student at Machine Learning Lab, IIIT\-H, Dec 2020 \- Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, Fairness in Machine Learning Models and its applications to Price Discrimination

Research Intern at Indian School of Business, Jun 2019 \- Aug 2019 · 3 mos, Hyderabad Area, India

Research Student at Center for Security Theory and Algorithmic Research \(CSTAR\), May 2019 \- Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling techniques for advanced mathematical structures

## Education

BTech \- Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad \(IIITH\)

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