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title: "Utsav Shukla - AI Engineer 3 in India | Tal"
description: "Meet Utsav Shukla, ML@Vahan based in India. AI stack includes claude, cursor, and opencode."
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# Utsav Shukla on Tal

## Headline

ML@Vahan

## About

Interested and Experienced in Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Systems

## Location

India

## AI stack

claude

cursor

opencode

claudecode

Pipecat

## Work experience

AI Engineer 3 at Vahan\.ai, Jan 2026 \- Present · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

AI Engineer 2 at Vahan\.ai, Feb 2025 \- Jan 2026 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Data Scientist at PolicyBazaar\.com, Aug 2022 \- Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Machine Learning Engineer at Skit\.ai, Jul 2021 \- Aug 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Machine Learning Intern at Skit\.ai, Jan 2021 \- Jul 2021 · 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Google Summer of Code mentor at AOSSIE, Mar 2020 \- Aug 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Mentored college students to make contributions in Social Street Smart, a project aims at detecting and hiding disinformation on the web\. In this year’s GSoC we worked on Graph Based solutions for detecting disinformation and use of fact checking organisations’ publications\. Whole backend was ported to AWS Services\.

Google Code\-in mentor at AOSSIE, Nov 2019 \- Jan 2020 · 3 mos, Guided school children aged 13\-17 to make contributions in Open Source

Student Developer at AOSSIE, May 2019 \- Jan 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, Remote Work, Summer Project under Google Summer of Code, developed and deployed both frontend and backend for the Chrome Extension\. This Chrome Extension detects Hate Speech, Clickbait and Fake News on the internet and hides/removes them as per the choice of the user\.

Co\-Founder at OptimaTeq, Jun 2018 \- Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos, OptimaTeq​ is a student run startup working on multiple projects over multiple domains and different countries\. Our projects range from developing optimized applications for doctors to assist surgeries and make patients aware of the various parameters and effects, to developing an optimized search engine for lawyers to quickly find precedents and similar cases\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology

Master's degree, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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