Shashank Goyal

Shashank Goyal

Head of Provider Ecosystem · OpenRouter

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Shashank Goyal is Head of Provider Ecosystem and a Founding Engineer at OpenRouter, where he helps build the infrastructure powering one of the world's largest LLM marketplaces. He works on the systems that enable developers and enterprises to access, route, and scale across hundreds of AI models and providers through a single API.
Prior to OpenRouter, Shashank was a backend engineer at OpenSea and spent more than four years as a software engineer at Google. His experience spans large-scale infrastructure, developer platforms, and AI systems, with a focus on reliability, performance, and developer experience.

Session (1)

Day 311:10am-11:30amTrack 1 · Room 2010
Letting the Interns Loose — How We Accelerated AI Adoption.

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As Head of Provider Ecosystem (and a founding engineer) at OpenRouter — one of the largest LLM gateways, routing requests across hundreds of models and providers — Shashank Goyal has production-scale visibility into how AI models and agents actually behave in the wild. His AI Engineer talk draws on billions of real-world requests to argue that what matters in practice — reliability, cost, and meaningful tool-calling — diverges from static benchmark scores.

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Build an AI Agent for Report Generation with NVIDIA Nemotron on OpenRouterNemotron Labs Livestream · Sep 2025

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