SS Saiprasad Shankar

Saiprasad Shankar

Enterprise AI Engineering · Director of Engineering, ex-CTO

I build AI products that make it to production, not just to a demo.

Director of Engineering at Vittam by EduFund, previously CTO at Deciml. Twelve years shipping software across fintech and telecom. I take AI from prototype to production, fast, and build tools people actually use.

Building

Work

Director of Engineering

Vittam by EduFund

Current

Leading engineering, taking AI products from prototype to production and building the systems and the team behind them.

AI Engineering, Product Engineering, Team Leadership

Chief Technology Officer

Deciml, India's first micro-investing app

2020 to 2025

Designed and built the entire platform from zero, serving 400K+ users at INR 3M in daily transactions on a lean five-person team. Hit day-one unit profitability by taking per-transaction costs to zero, and made Deciml the first app in India to enable round-up investing through the Account Aggregator framework. Kept a 100% VAPT pass rate three years running.

Fintech Architecture, Flutter, Security Engineering, Data-Driven Product

Software Engineer

Netcracker

2017 to 2020

Built and maintained OSS/BSS platform solutions for telecom operators at scale.

Software Engineer

Persistent Systems

2014 to 2017

Built software for telecom clients and learned enterprise product development from the ground up.

Brain to Disk

Why do Emacs users eat in dirty plates? Coz they don't like 'vim'! #bhandighasa huehuehuehuehueheuhueheu! #sorrynotsorry

Contact

Whether it's about fintech innovation, startup challenges, hiring in tech or just sharing a good tech/dad joke, I'm always up for a conversation.