Shubham Agnihotri

Chief Manager - Generative AI at IDFC First Bank

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Shubham focuses on developing and deploying large language models across diverse modalities, including text, images, audio, and video. With over six years of experience in AI/ML, he has fine-tuned and productionized AI models at scale.

Beyond his corporate role, Shubham has been deeply involved in building and scaling developer communities. He founded Cynergy, his college’s official coding club which has now grown into a thriving community of over 10,000 members. He played a key role in the early stages of Quantum Computing India, helping scale it to 5,000 members. As an organiser, he has contributed to multiple developer groups, including ML Community Bangalore (Powered by Google) and AWS User Group Mumbai (Powered by Amazon), where he currently helps manage a community of over 20,000 members. He has been a speaker at various national and international conferences like Techshow London, AWS community day and Google Devfest. He was also associated with Sociamy, a non-profit focused on making developers employable through peer-driven learning.

Shubham also founded and sold SAgriUdaan, an agriculture drone startup that optimized pesticide use, reducing consumption by 40% and saving over a million liters of water. The startup was recognized as an emerging Agri-Drone company by The Times of India Group.