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Shalu Panwar
full-stack ai engineer // voice · genai · agents
01 about
I build things from zero to one — and take ownership until they work. Over seven years, I've turned ideas into products, shipped three AI products as a founder-CTO, and built speech systems for Hindi and Hinglish at Plivo. I'm at my best where the problem is ambiguous, the path isn't obvious, and someone needs to take an idea all the way from "what if?" to a product real users can depend on.
02 capabilities
03 selected work
work
four systems, inside and out — the output users saw on the left, the machinery that made it on the right.
03.1 plivo · senior ai engineer · 2025–26
hindi/hinglish voice ai
Frontier-grade speech recognition for a language the frontier ignored — matching Deepgram Nova-3 and Sarvam on WER/SER benchmarks.
output — what callers experience
x-ray — what's inside
journey — how it happened
- 01the gapHindi and Hinglish STT trailed the frontier — and the data to fix it didn't exist.
- 02build the dataA generation pipeline blending open-source, internal, and synthesized speech — 5,000+ hours.
- 03trainFine-tuned Whisper and Nemotron, leading a 3-person core team owning direction and delivery.
- 04match the leadersDeepgram Nova-3 and Sarvam-level WER/SER on standard benchmarks — then prototyped direct S2S.
03.2 trikl · cto & co-founder · 2022–25
linkedin ai content engine
Personalized copywriting at scale — 90% less writing time for 5,000+ users, on SOC 2-compliant infrastructure.
output — what users publish
x-ray — what's inside
03.3 trikl · cto & co-founder · 2022–25
adsether — ai video ads
One brief in, video ads in 175+ languages out — 500+ AI actors behind RAG-grounded, secure microservices.
output — what audiences see
x-ray — what's inside
03.4 trikl · cto & co-founder · 2022–25
ai community platform
Discord, Telegram, and WhatsApp unified for admins — 140K+ members moderated with RAG answers, PII redaction, and abuse alerts.
output — what admins see
x-ray — what's inside
04 the path
path
now
senior ai engineer @ plivo
Leading a 3-person core team across STT/TTS/S2S training and fine-tuning — Hindi/Hinglish voice AI matching the frontier, and a speech-to-LLM adapter prototype.
founder
cto & co-founder @ trikl
Three AI products in 18 months; raised $150K pre-seed; built and led a 5-person team with OKR-driven hiring — 5K+ users, 140K+ community members served.
hackathons
winner, ethindia 2022
The world's largest Web3 hackathon — one of 10+ international hackathon wins. Also shipped Karatpay, an Android gold-trading app built with Expo.
founder
co-founder @ wecrat
WordPress marketplace for 200+ artisans; led a cross-functional team of 6+; bootstrapped to $15K ARR.
corporate
tech consultant @ capgemini
Compliance audits (PCI, SOX, SoD) at 100% accuracy across 35+ applications for Disney; 50K+ user records, 78 business-critical apps; promoted in 2020.
education
b.tech @ iit bombay
Graduated with the Undergraduate Research Award — plus student mentorship (12 freshmen), Institute Organizational Special Mention, and the Ambrose Otieno award for multi-sport excellence.
05 contact