Service record
Lohith Devaramane Shivashankara
I ship systems into the field — from discovery conversations to production hardening. Currently completing an 8-month Forward Deployed Engineer intensive (IIT Roorkee PGC + FDE Academy) while working as Senior Member of Technical Staff at Altiostar, a Rakuten Symphony company.
Timeline
2025 — 2026
FDE intensive — IIT Roorkee PGC + FDE Academy
8-month dual-track program: technology (industrial RAG, agents, MCP, fine-tuning, full-stack AI, cloud) and consulting (discovery, scoping, stakeholder management, client simulations). 24 production artifacts by graduation, evaluated by industry panels.
Oct 2021 — present
Senior Member of Technical Staff — Altiostar, a Rakuten Symphony company
Own the RAN performance testing automation suite end to end: TM500 execution, parallelized log/KPI collection, Selenium-driven EMS reporting, Jenkins CI/CD across multiple RAN setups. 70% reduction in manual effort; 50% faster suite execution. Python, multithreading, Linux, Git, Kubernetes, Agile cross-functional delivery.
2017 — 2021
BE, Electronics and Communications — The National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru
CGPA 8.44. Published an IEEE paper on sign language recognition using hand gestures. Built and deployed a tweet sentiment analysis ML model with a Flask web app on Heroku.
Capabilities
Production today
Python, test automation, Selenium, Jenkins CI/CD, multithreading, Linux, Git, Kubernetes
AI systems (building)
RAG and vector databases, LLM evaluation, agents (LangGraph, CrewAI), MCP, fine-tuning (QLoRA), FastAPI, Next.js
Consulting
Discovery interviews, MECE decomposition, business-to-technical translation, PoV→PoC→MVP scoping
Honors
- ★NSOC 5.0 Hackathon — hardware track winner
- ★IEEE paper — sign language recognition using hand gestures
- ★e-yantra — IIT Bombay robotics competition
- ★International Olympiad of Mathematics — gold medal (Class X)