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.

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.

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