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title: "Shivam Anand - Generative AI Engineer in Mumbai | Tal"
description: "Meet Shivam Anand, Engineering@Kodo (YC 21) | GSoC’22@Python Software Foundation | IIT Roorkee based in Mumbai."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/shivam-35/share-image"
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# Shivam Anand on Tal

## Headline

Engineering@Kodo \(YC 21\) \| GSoC’22@Python Software Foundation \| IIT Roorkee

## About

Ah not this linkedin slop again\!

## Location

Mumbai

## Work experience

Generative AI Engineer at Kodo, Jan 2026 \- Present · 6 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Backend Engineer at Edra Labs, May 2024 \- Nov 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, \- Led development of UGC backend with user authentication, real\-time notifications using Redis pub/sub, and an AI\-driven content moderation/generation system with an admin dashboard for content control\. \- Designed and shipped an end\-to\-end Retrieval\-Augmented Generation platform including a custom semantic chunking algorithm that delivers 98% top\-k retrieval precision for domain\-specific queries\. \- Built a config\-driven intelligent web crawler using LLMs and rule\-based extraction to structure data from arbitrary websites, reducing data acquisition time by 75% \- Architected a distributed task system using Celery and integrated Typesense with an Express\.js \+ RDS backend to process LLM\-generated content and enable real\-time search with 40% improved throughput

Developer at ACM Student Chapter IIT Roorkee, Mar 2022 \- Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos, IIT Rooorkee, Core Team Member and Treasurer at ACM IIT Roorkee Chapter\. Worked mostly in the field of computer graphics and computer networking\.

Open Source Developer at Code for GovTech \(C4GT\), Jul 2023 \- Sep 2023 · 3 mos, Remote, Worked as an Open Source developer at Health Claims Exchange Built HCX API from scratch in Python and implemented end\-to\-end RSA encryption on the API and JWT user authentication\.

Student Developer at Google Summer of Code, May 2022 \- Sep 2022 · 5 mos, Remote, Google Summer of Code 2021 participant with Python Software Foundation\. Worked to render glTF file \(scenes and animations\) format to FURY \(Python library for scientific visualization\)

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

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