# Shankar S.

> Engineer @ Hebbia

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shankars

## Work Experience
### Member of Technical Staff @ Hebbia
Jan 2026 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Found
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
Early engineer + chief of staff to CTO.

Found is a smart business-banking product for small businesses, offering automated-bookkeeping, payments, invoices and more. Found has raised over $122M from Sequoia, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed.

Currently building out LLM enabled products for SMBs to ease out operations.

### Software Engineer @ Convoy Inc
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Early member of Convoy Go team. Tech lead for trailer out of network development, detecting trailer theft and automating operations process for recovery. Scaled efforts led to $2m in asset recovery and revenue actualization from increased trailer utilization. https://www.freightwaves.com/news/convoy-any-load-can-be-drop-and-hook

### Teaching Assistant @ Northwestern University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
EECS 348 - Intro to AI; EECS 330 - Human Computer Interaction

### Research Assistant @ Northwestern University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
Led an independent research project under Professor Haoqi Zhang. Research focus was on crowdsourcing knowledge and skill presence inside an organization. Awarded undergraduate research grant. https://dtr.northwestern.edu/projects/recQgqgHiD8J1ZhaV

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Groupon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area
Designed my own project after identifying gaps in existing ETL pipelines across data teams. Developed and implemented a parser+compiler to take all existing workflows in Groupon's internal Optimus tool and generate fully functional DAGs replicated in Airflow.

### Software Engineering Intern @ LBB - Little Black Book
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
Vibes and some shell scripts to automate S3 backups.

### Co Founder @ DOt. New Beginnings.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Created a portal for students to share used textbooks and interact with other students beyond a classroom setting.

### Intern @ DoubleFry Tech
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Vibes and some operations.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Northwestern University

### Vasant Valley School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shankar-s-543a3494
- Portfolio: http://www.shankarsalwan.com/webcc

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Last updated: 2026-03-29