Ishan Shah

Hey, I'm Ishan! I'm a founding engineer at Happenstance and enjoy building things with LLMs in my free time. I graduated from UT Austin with degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Mathematics.

I'm based in San Francisco and love meeting people from the Internet. You should absolutely reach out if you want to chat!

Work

HappenstanceAI-powered people search BloombergDistributed systems for earnings Minion AI¹AI agents for web browsing Unreal SpeechText-to-speech model evaluation YouTubeVideo classification and reliability Capital OneFraud detection for car dealerships

¹ Minion AI was acquired by Perplexity in 2025.

Online

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