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title: "Shashank Srivastava - Principal Forward Deployed Engineer (AI) | Consultant in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Shashank Srivastava, Forward Deployed Engineer (AI) & Product Leader | GenAI · AI Agents · RAG · Python · Azure OpenAI · AI Governance | Enterprise AI Consultant - Fortune-500 & startups | Ex-Adobe, Wells Fargo, Ethos | IIM-L MBA based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, cursor, and g..."
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# Shashank Srivastava on Tal

## Headline

Forward Deployed Engineer \(AI\) & Product Leader \| GenAI · AI Agents · RAG · Python · Azure OpenAI · AI Governance \| Enterprise AI Consultant \- Fortune\-500 & startups \| Ex\-Adobe, Wells Fargo, Ethos \| IIM\-L MBA

## About

14\+ years building outcome\-focused platforms across fintech, logistics, health tech and enterprise software \- now as a Forward Deployed Engineer \(FDE\) shipping GenAI agents, RAG systems and AI governance inside a Fortune\-500\. I embed with your business teams, take vague problems and ship AI systems that are governed, measured, and actually used\. At Ethos, I founded the AI first Forward Deployed Engineering practice from 0→1 \(running across 4 teams, 1,500\+ issues resolved\)\. Built AI agents for bug triage and multi\-agent product discovery systems that go from research input \(PRD/BRD\) to prototype\. Today I run AI and automation and platform programs for a Fortune\-500 US life\-sciences company \- HR, finance, regulatory, sales and supply\-chain workflows across the US, Japan, Korea, Singapore, ANZ, India and the Middle East\. MBA from IIM Lucknow; B\.Tech in IT\. I build production systems, write code, and I still think adoption beats architecture\. Before: Consulted on 1→10 platform for US Healthcare\. Built a no\-code/low\-code B2B SaaS platform at Wells Fargo \(300K\+ daily transactions, $8\.4M customer value\)\. Scaled a logistics SaaS at Loadshare 10x in 10 months\. Spent 7 years at Adobe \- Creative Cloud Enterprise and Adobe\.com at 350M\+ monthly visits\. Specialties: Forward Deployed Engineer · Generative AI · AI Agents · Agentic AI · Multi\-Agent Systems · RAG · LLM · Prompt Engineering · LLM Evaluation · Azure OpenAI · Azure AI Foundry · Python · FastAPI · Power Automate · Copilot Studio · Document Intelligence · AI Governance · Responsible AI · Enterprise AI · Product Management · Digital Transformation · Fintech · Life Sciences · Logistics · Insurtech Visit my Website: https://forwarddeployedengineers\.io Fastest way to see the work: shashank\.srivastava89@gmail\.com Personal GitHub: https://github\.com/shashanksrivastava89

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

grok

langchain

langgraph

OpenAI Agents SDK

## Work experience

Principal Forward Deployed Engineer \(AI\) \| Consultant at Forward Deployed, May 2026 \- Present · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to a Fortune\-500 US life\-sciences company: I own their enterprise AI & intelligent\-automation program across HR, Sales, Finance, Regulatory and Supply Chain in APAC \+ US, and lead the FDE pod\. • Built and shipped AI resume\-screening platform \- two\-layer scoring \(deterministic rubric \+ evidence\-quoted LLM adjustments \+ bias critic\), Python, FastAPI \+ React on Azure Container Apps, Entra ID SSO, 7\-role RBAC, versioned scoring policy, audit trails, \~560 automated tests\. First brief → SSO\-hosted enterprise pilot in ten weeks\. Human\-in\-the\-loop by design; Legal and compliance\-aware\. • Distributor secondary\-sales analytics across \~130 distributors: document AI, SKU matching against SAP masters, material\-balance reconciliation as a data\-quality signal\. • Customs/trade document AI for 6 countries: Azure AI Document Intelligence extraction from commercial invoices, \~20 auto\-filled declaration templates, DocuSign routing\. • ADLC \- Agentic development lifecycle \(staged agent pipeline, human decision gates, solution\-owner agents with permanent project memory, per\-demand ROI gates\) that lets one engineer run 4–5 parallel builds\. • Statutory 48\-hour HR settlement pipeline: 14\+ orchestrated flows across HR, IT, Facilities, Payroll, Finance\. Plus benefits\-reimbursement\-to\-payroll and salary\-communication automation\. Tech Stack: Generative AI · AI agents & multi\-agent systems · RAG · LLM evaluation · prompt engineering · Azure AI Foundry · Azure OpenAI · AWS · Python · FastAPI · React · PostgreSQL · Docker · Power Platform · Copilot Studio · SAP/iCIMS/DocuSign integration · AI governance\.

Senior Technical Product Manager \- AI & FDE at Ethos, May 2025 \- May 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Founded Ethos's AI\-first Forward Deployed Engineering \(FDE\) practice from 0→1 \- now adopted across 4 teams\. • Resolved 1,500\+ partner issues, onboarded 6 insurance agencies, and established triage and resolution workflows that cut resolution time \~40%\. • Built AI agents to improve how the team works: an agentic AI bug triage system that reads Slack threads, deduplicates against Jira, and recommends priority and assignee based on a self\-built knowledge base of 1000\+ tickets, PRDs, Figma • Piloted multi\-agent product discovery system \(Analyst → Strategist → Designer → Reviewer\) that takes research input or a PRD and generates opportunity frames, concepts, and prototypes\. • Shipped features improving insurance agent and partner experience \- including underwriting routing visibility in the agent portal and fixes for critical application logic issues affecting policy issuance\.

Lead Product Manager \- AI Workflow Platform at Wells Fargo, May 2023 \- Jan 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Pioneered vision, roadmap, and OKRs for 0\-1 no\-code/low\-code B2B SaaS AI platform, enabling 300K\+ daily transactions and $8\.4M customer value\. • Led 14\-member team to enhance reliability by 47%, reduce downtime by 66%, and drive 22% MoM traffic growth\. • Conducted customer sessions/roadshows for 63% adoption increase; implemented modular pricing to cut billing from 120 to 30 days\. • Collaborated with finance/tech for data\-driven features using Splunk, Elastic APM, and AWS\.

Senior Product Manager at LoadShare Networks, May 2022 \- May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Launched 3P SaaS logistics platform, scaling orders 10x \(20K to 200K/day\) in 10 months via B2B integrations\. Platform bought \(acqui\-hired\) by Meesho\. • Designed scalable WMS, Rider App, and AWS data platform \(15TB/month\) with Athena, Kafka, and MongoDB\. • Managed 5\-member team to boost order acceptance by 122%, cut incidents by 57%, and improve CSAT by 23%\. • Reconciled $200K in claims; redesigned COD tracking for $500K daily cash monitoring\. Clients & Partners: Meesho, Flipkart, Myntra, Shiprocket, Purple, Nykaa, Pickr

Lead Software Engineer at Adobe, May 2015 \- May 2022 · 7 y, Noida

## Education

Master of Business Administration, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

Certificate Program, Product Management, Product School

## Public links

- github: https://github\.com/shashanksrivastava89
- forwarddeployedengineers\.io: https://www\.forwarddeployedengineers\.io/

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