Shashank Prasanna is a technology professional with a diverse experience in product development, technical sales, product marketing, and developer advocacy. With a strong background in electrical engineering and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University, Shashank has specialized in machine learning, deep learning, data analytics, big data, and distributed and parallel computing.

Shashank's professional background includes senior positions at Amazon Web Services, NVIDIA, and MathWorks. As a Senior Developer Advocate for AI and Machine Learning at AWS, Shashank has centered his work around developing tools and services that help engineers and developers create AI and Machine Learning applications. Prior to AWS, Shashank was a Senior Product Marketing Manager for Deep Learning Libraries and Frameworks at NVIDIA, a position where he worked to provide tools and technologies that empower developers to accelerate deep learning workflows across industries. At MathWorks, he served in several roles, including Product Marketing Manager for Statistics and Machine Learning and Application Support Engineer.

Throughout his career, Shashank has consistently demonstrated a deep commitment to emerging technologies in machine learning and data analytics. With his pragmatic marketing professional training, he has excelled in product messaging and positioning, market research, product roadmaps development, sales channel support and training, collateral development, and generation programs. Shashank's interests include machine learning, deep learning, data analytics, Bayesian statistics, time-series analysis, nonlinear dynamics and chaos theory, numerical optimization, GPU computing, big data, and distributed and parallel computing.