Shashidhar Babu P V D (@shashidharbabu)

Machine Learning Engineer | AI Engineer | Software Engineer | Data Scientist
I’ve worn different hats throughout my career — I build production-grade AI systems end-to-end: data → models → infra → developer experience.

• 🌎 San Jose, CA
• 🧠 Focus: LLM systems, RAG, multimodal AI, scalable backend/data platforms
• 🤝 Open to: OSS + applied AI engineering collaborations

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/shashidharbabu
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/p-v-d-shashidhar-babu-9b91471b9/

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🚀 Open source work (company / RocketRide)

RocketRide Server — AI pipeline engine (C++ core + Python nodes)

rocketride-org/rocketride-server
High-performance AI/data processing engine with 50+ pipeline nodes, multi-agent workflows, and SDKs (TypeScript, Python, MCP).

• Repo: https://github.com/rocketride-org/rocketride-server
• Docs: https://docs.rocketride.org/

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🧩 Featured projects

• RocketRide Server — production AI pipeline engine (C++/Python, SDKs, Docker)
  https://github.com/rocketride-org/rocketride-server
• Aerive Platform — microservices travel booking platform (React/Vite/Tailwind, API gateway, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, Postgres)
  https://github.com/shashidharbabu/Aerive-Platform
• Multimodal RAG — multimodal retrieval system (text/image/audio/video)
  https://github.com/shashidharbabu/multimodal-rag
• Transformer from scratch — end-to-end transformer implementation
  https://github.com/shashidharbabu/transformer-architecture
• AI NutriCoach — food-image insights + personalized nutrition ideas
  https://github.com/shashidharbabu/ai-nutricoach

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🛠️ Skills (from my resume)

LLMs / Agent Systems

Machine Learning / NLP

Data Engineering / MLOps

Databases / Storage

Languages

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💬 A bit more about me

“data, models, evals & robots(new interest!)” — I care about the full system: correctness, performance, infra, and shipping.