Sashank Gondala

Sashank Gondala is a Co-Founder at Further AI since December 2023, involved in hiring founding software engineers and part of the Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch. Simultaneously, Sashank is a member of South Park Commons, focusing on AI agents. Previously, Sashank served as a Language Modeling Scientist at Apple from June 2021 to October 2023, contributing expertise in language modeling. Sashank's academic background includes research on multimodal systems and language grounding at Georgia Institute of Technology, along with roles as a teaching assistant in various machine learning courses. Earlier, Sashank held multiple positions at Oracle, optimizing Business Intelligence products, and completed software development internships at Amazon and Housing.com. Sashank earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.