Shashank Vaidya

Shashank Vaidya

AI Engineer · Deep Learning · LLMs

Jul 2026 – Present

Currently working as an AI Engineer at AI To Market in Paris.

Mar 2025 – Aug 2025

I interned at SNCF Réseau as a Data Scientist-LLM, where I developed a document-processing and form-filling agentic AI app for a client, reducing manual data entry by 90 %.

Sep 2024 – Feb 2025

Worked as an Intern AI engineer at MV Group, where I built an internal generative AI app for custom image creation and fine-tuning. This solution reduced the need for professional product photoshoots by 70%.

Aug 2024 – Feb 2025

Also worked part-time (remote) as an AI Model-Training Engineer at Scale AI, focusing on prompt engineering and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF).

2023 – 2025

Moved to Paris to pursue an MSc in Data Science at EPITA. Got into deep learning after completing Grant Sanderson’s Neural Networks course

2020 – 2022

Joined RGPV Tech University for my Master’s in Computer Applications. Since it was during COVID, I also interned at two companies as a Python developer, working on web apps and other outsourced projects.

2017 – 2020

Completed my Bachelor in Computer Applications (BCA) at Medicaps University.

Side Projects

smolGrad

A micro-autograd engine in pure Python that visualises back-prop step-by-step.

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makeLM

A tiny character-level language-model playground built from scratch in NumPy.

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