# Shashank Bharadwaj > Software Engineer at Google. AI enthusiast Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shashankbharadwaj Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building apps on a variety of devices. In my free time I run one of the largest meetups in Silicon Valley with my co-host Mark meetup.com/gen-ai. Join us in person every Thursday in the Bay Area. We also talk about stuff we learn in podcast.genaimeetup.com Most of my time is spent building home.google.com. Over the last few years I've worked on various Google Home/Nest products building things at scale - Chromecast, Stadia, smart speakers, smart displays, and streaming media from security cameras. I've worked on mature developer SDKs, OS running on these devices, UI for 1P features, and backend to support these frontends. Previously I tried a couple startups, led multiple teams, went through accelerators learning how to be scrappy. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2017 – Present | Mountain View, California Building AI Coding agents for Vibe Design tool https://stitch.withgoogle.com under https://labs.google - Working on some front end features, media streaming, and backend for home.google.com - Lead Front End Engineer for News, Podcasts, Relaxing sounds serving 500K DAU. - Worked on Chromecast's Cast Receiver SDK adding core features to queuing and default media player UI. Serving 50M+ users. - Worked on core web framework for Google Home Hub as well as primary features like timers/alarms, media, shopping, recipes. Launched with 1M+ users. - Built Quality Control apps for Google hardware products like Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max and Stadia Game Controller to test Hardware on the factory line. - Devops: Served on-call for our team's web apps. Managed staged releases and rollbacks for QA, beta and production. Added unit & integration tests as part of our continuous releases. - Worked across teams to get requirements from PMs, work with designers, write design docs reviewed by eng, plan sprints, and allocate QA resources for major releases. ### Lead Engineer @ WorkGenius Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area WorkGenius is a set of recruiting services for the on-demand economy. - Created a cross platform mobile app for on-demand workers to manage their shifts across multiple platforms. Angular 1, Ionic 1, Typescript, Cordova - Created a dashboard for companies to recruit on-demand workers more effectively. Angular 2, Typescript - Reverse engineered APIs to allow users to access data across multiple platforms. REST APIs, CORS, CSRF, Web authentication - Created a backend and multiple micro services for business logic. Parse Open Source, Node.js, Express, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda - Recruited and managed our backend engineer with weekly standups, sprint planning, and code reviews. ### Engineering Manager (iOS & Android) @ RiteTag Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area Assembled and managed a team to create our first iOS and Android apps and custom keyboards for social media optimization. - Developed the initial idea. Defined the scope, timeframe and engineering requirements. Created wireframes and designed initial UI/UX. Defined high level structure of the iOS and Android apps. - Recruited iOS and Android development interns from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Over the course of three months I helped them to learn teamwork, use source control, write clean code, use external frameworks and ship usable features. - Created initial skeleton apps for iOS and Android. Created, debugged and optimized several features in both iOS and Android. - Beta tested in stages and collected user behaviour analytics. With the help of our CEO, I handled marketing, promotion and release to different outlets. ### Software Engineer @ RiteTag Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area Worked on a number of projects in different roles in a young startup. - Maintained and added new features to our Chrome, Safari and Firefox browser extensions. Features modified existing social media websites (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer, Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, SproutSocial) by injecting JS and CSS. Handled problems around Rest API calls, OAuth, CORS and browser specific CSS rendering and JS runtime issues. Created modules to reuse code across extensions to speed up development time. - Created a cross platform mobile app using PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile to test the viability of a mobile app for RiteTag. - Web development with the php full-stack on a dynamic website with over 200K pageviews. - Developed UX, refined onboarding, gathered behaviour analytics, responded to complaints and provided customer support. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Zest Health Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Created an automated phone survey to collect customer satisfaction responses. Built from scratch using NodeJS using Twilio and hosted on Microsoft Azure Cloud. The Twilio module was built to handle any kind of response with minor modifications. Used Azure’s message queue to make it scalable to millions of responses. ### Sotware Engineering Intern @ University of San Francisco Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Created an iPad app to aid in a psychological experiment. The app tested user’s reaction times to a visual stimulus on the screen. It reminded users to perform the trial several times a day over the course of a few weeks. It also periodically uploaded the results to the cloud using the Dropbox API. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics and Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shashu10 - Website: http://shashank.bio/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/shashankbharadwaj JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shashankbharadwaj/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22