Variant ID
SB-1623
Race
Human · Cracked Engineer
Height
5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Eye Color
Brown
Sex
Male
Birthplace
Dehradun, India
Current Location
Hyderabad, India
Alias
The Ghost · God of Mischief God of Shipping
Variant Name
Shashank Bhardwaj
Occupation
Building Enclave
Prior
CTO · YourSizer · Founding Eng · EF-backed startup
Class
A
Type
7
Sector
2020 — 2026
Arrest ID
J098235
About
I just ship whatever it takes. I have expertise in building production RAGs, scalable system design, and agentic workflows. Based out of north India, working with teams globally, mostly remote but open to relocate anywhere on this planet.
Case notes
I’m a curious kid trying to escape the matrix because I’m burdened with glorious purpose.
Now building Enclave, sovereign AI infra for regulated industries. Basically, AI that runs inside your own walls so your data never leaves.
Before this, I was a founding engineer at an EF-backed startup and CTO at YourSizer, where I wrote the first line of code and scaled it to 10K daily users solo. They call me a cracked engineer. I shipped like a madman, and prod occasionally paid the price.
Selected work
- Wizard.AI — video transcription and summarization with a fine-tuned DistilBART model.
- DocSync — realtime collaborative document editing over WebSockets.
- IndiGo Flight System — flight search, arrivals/departures, Redis-backed live gate and baggage notifications.
- RetailReadyAI — marketing site for a YC-backed warehouse ops product.
More on the projects page.
Things I believe
- Code that ships beats code that impresses. Products stay honest when they stay simple.
- Most “model” problems in AI systems are actually data, retrieval, or interface problems. Fix those first.
- Interfaces should feel calm. Latency, motion, and copy are all part of the product — not decoration around it.