Shashank Kumar Shankar

I build cloud and AI platforms at Microsoft Azure — and ship my own AI products on the side.

I’m a Senior Product Manager on Azure Blob & Data Lake Storage. I took Azure Storage Actions from nothing to a shipped, monetized platform that now automates data management for 300+ enterprises across 2B+ objects.

I started out as an engineer — Intel, Workday, then AWS SageMaker Ground Truth — and moved into product because I wanted to own the whole problem rather than just the implementation. I never stopped building.

See what I've built How I built AI Trio

What I build on my own time

Four AI products I designed, built and shipped myself, using AI coding assistants:

AI Trio — GPT-5, Gemini and Claude in one conversation, arguing with each other. live
FashionMateAI — a wardrobe assistant grounded in what’s actually in your closet. live
ServiceOpsAI — agentic incident triage that gets SREs to a hypothesis in minutes.
CareersChatAI — turns a vague career question into a plan you can start on Monday.

Building these taught me the thing I now repeat constantly: the bottleneck has moved from writing the syntax to specifying the problem completely.

Before Azure

Software engineer at AWS SageMaker Ground Truth, Workday and Intel — distributed systems, Kubernetes and open-source cloud infrastructure. The full history is on my resume.

My path from code to customer

From code to customer: my career path from software engineering to product management