Shivam Ashtikar

Shivam Ashtikar

AI Infrastructure Specialist

Sarvam AI ยท ML Engineer

ML Engineer with 7+ years of experience architecting scalable systems, leading cross-functional teams, and overseeing full-cycle development. Expertise spans Payment Systems, Data Engineering, Infrastructure Automation, and advanced LLM Inference Engines.

LLM Inference GPU Infrastructure Functional Programming Team Leadership

How I Work

From idea to production, emphasizing measurement, automation, and continuous optimization across AI infrastructure and full-stack systems.

SDLC ๐Ÿ’ก IDEA code AI / ML ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป BUILD deploy Leadership ๐Ÿš€ SHIP feedback loop
90%
Bug reduction via Canary
700+
Daily active LLM users
7+
Years of experience

Ship fast ยท Measure impact ยท Iterate continuously

Journey

ML Engineer @ Sarvam AI

Current

Samvaad

Jun 2026 โ€“ Present

SDE II @ Juspay

Xyne - AI Infrastructure

LLM Inference & MLOps ยท 2025 โ€“ Present

  • โ†’ Spearheaded AI Infrastructure team deploying open-weight LLMs on 8x H200 GPU nodes with vLLM and SGLang
  • โ†’ Patched vLLM for Kimi K2.5 compatibility, achieving production deployment within one week of release
  • โ†’ Led cross-functional teams (Frontend, Backend, QA) to deliver the open-source Xyne platform
vLLM SGLang LiteLLM VespaDB Ray H200 GPUs

Euler Dashboard

Full-Stack Platform Leadership ยท 2023 โ€“ 2025

  • โ†’ Led Backend and Frontend teams, mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence
  • โ†’ Reduced production bugs by 90% through Canary deployment strategy
  • โ†’ Integrated enterprise features: Slack API, OAuth 2.0, Passkey, and Google SSO
Haskell ReScript React Jenkins Kubernetes

SDE I

Juspay

Led Payment Page engineering team. Reduced PureScript compile time by 6ร— through strategic refactoring. Built DevTools application for payment flow verification.

6ร— faster compile times
PureScript React Jenkins

Associate SDE

Juspay

Full-stack payments development. Improved Android render time by 66% with pre-rendering. Migrated data pipeline from Python to Haskell using Streamly.

66% render improvement
Android Python Haskell

FP Developer Intern

Juspay

Enhanced cross-platform framework performance by 10% through JS-Java bridge optimization.

10% performance gain
JavaScript Java Android

Technical Toolkit

v

vLLM

High-throughput LLM serving inference engine

S

SGLang

Structured generation for LLMs

L

LiteLLM

Unified LLM proxy (700+ users)

K

LMCache

KV cache optimization

V

VespaDB

Vector database for RAG systems

O

Ollama

Local LLM deployment

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering

Pune University โ€“ Government College of Engineering and Research, Avasari (kd)

CGPA: 8.06 | 2015 โ€“ 2019

Tools I've selfhosted

Open resources I maintain for the developer community. Free utilities and services hosted on my infrastructure.

Always curious, always building โ€” let's connect!

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