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This is not a portfolio.
It's a live AI system.

You are now interacting with Shashank Padala's AI brain — a production-grade RAG system trained on 10+ years of AI leadership at Amazon, Tesco, and AI startups.

AI Product Leader · Founder, Kirak Labs · IIT Guwahati · Queen's University

10+

Years Experience

10+

AI Products Launched

20M+

Enterprise Savings

3M+

Users Impacted

BACKGROUND

Education & experience

Education

Queen's University, Smith School of Business

Masters in Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati

Bachelor of Technology · Electronics & Communication Engineering

Experience

Founder · Kirak Labs Ltd (AI Dev Studio)

Apr 2025 – Present

Technical Program Manager II · Amazon

Sep 2022 – Apr 2025

TPM and Software Engineer · Tesco

Jul 2017 – Aug 2021

Full work history

WRITING

Playbooks & deep dives

Long-form pieces on enterprise AI, agents, and product — plus updates on Medium and LinkedIn.

Apr 21, 2026·15 min read

Project Rosie: An Open Source AI Pipeline for Personalized Cancer Vaccine Design

Deep dive on Project Rosie: the full pipeline architecture, five distinct Gemma 4 integration roles (agentic orchestrator, multimodal visualisation interpreter, clinical report generator), and why veterinary oncology is the right launch market.

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Apr 09, 2026·17 min read

A man used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design a cancer vaccine for his dying dog. It worked. Here is how to replicate it.

A deep dive into the Rosie case, the end-to-end neoantigen pipeline, and why veterinary oncology is the fastest path to build open personalized mRNA vaccine infrastructure.

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Mar 10, 2026·18 min read

Enterprise GenAI Strategy: From Data to Production

Why most enterprise AI projects fail — and the phased, opinionated playbook for getting RAG-based knowledge systems right. Covers data pipelines, RBAC, evaluation, change management, and governance.

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Mar 17, 2026·22 min read

Enterprise Agentic AI: From Chatbot to Autonomous Agent

What changes when you move from a chatbot to an autonomous agent. Deep-dives into MCP, LangGraph orchestration, memory architecture, human-in-the-loop design, and the Padala Bank Credit Analyst Agent as a reference implementation.

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