Devin Shah

I am a software engineer focused on ML systems, infrastructure, and LLMs. I currently work at Otter.ai. I previously cofounded Octane Security. I've previously worked at SuperbAI, AiFi, and Stanford Medicine.

I strive to build tools that augment human productivity, creativity, and capability.

With this, I'm pursuing a longer term goal of engineering systems at the intersection of biology and AI. We can then start to understand consciousness and what it means to be human.

Notable Work

• Created a real-time, low-latency voice agent over Zoom by integrating Otter’s meeting stack, websocket audio streaming, a sub-150ms TTS server, VAD-based turn detection, and streaming LLM response generation.
• Founded a startup that uses ML to identify vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Worked with static analyzers, fuzzers, symbolic analysis engines and augmented them with ML.
• Published a paper with the Bacchetta Lab at the Stanford University School of Medicine on optimizing FOXP3 gene editing for hematopoietic stem progenitor cells.
• Helped train and deploy SKU-detection models on synthetic data for autonomous checkout stores.
• Created a few open source projects like: GPU Puzzles CUDA C++, GPTHunt, and LectureChat.

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Personal Interests

I'm a huge fan of music from all over the world. I actively listen to various genres. Some of my favorites at the moment are: afrobeats (Kizz Daniel, Kwame Eugene, Fireboy DML), techno/EDM/trance (Anyma, KREAM, Yotto), and UK drill/grime (Dave, Bugzy Malone, Unknown T). Follow my Spotify here. I'm curious about how we can reinvent the way we DJ and produce music; music generation model weight perturbations could lead to the creation of individual and unique sounds that are only activated by a certain human form or artist.

I love teaching people about AI and introducing them to new AI products that enhance productivity and creativity. Some of my favorites so far are: Perplexity, Cursor, and v0.dev.

I've lived in the Bay Area all of my life. I played baseball for 15 years, as a pitcher and 1st/3rd basemen, and won many tournaments and awards. I'm a huge Liverpool supporter (up the reds!). Also a big 49ers, Warriors, SF Giants, and Alabama Crimson Tide fan.

I believe that continuous progress towards augmenting and restoring our physical and mental selves is necessary to ensure long-term prosperity for humans.

Feel free to reach out at dshah3 (at) outlook (dot) com.