Shikhar Malik

I recently finished my MS in Computer Science at NYU and spend my time building fullstack AI stuff....

Some things I've done:

• Spent 3+ years at Optum(UnitedHealth Group) building enterprise pipelines handling over 27 million records a quarter. I wrote the Python and Java workflows, fixed critical memory leaks, migrated cloud infra and setup CI/CD.
• An AI-powered hardware focused code editor from the ground up during my time at Root Access. Core product contributions directly supported a successful $2.1M seed round.
• A fullstack web app named DermaVision, using a DenseNet 169 classifier that hits 91.2% accuracy. It won 2nd place out of 300+ global teams in the Optum Global Hackathon.
• A pet care platform Tailwise, integrated with Gemini to handle AI-powered food safety checks mostly because prompt tuning for pet health is surprisingly nuanced.
• A deep learning paper where I built a dataset of 1,882 annotated memes called Multimodal Offensive Meme(MOM) to classify complex online hate speech. Early fusion techniques boosted our multimodal precision by 25 percentage points.

Bit of a jack-of-all-trades, interested in Agentic AI and high-throughput systems. Whether it’s the chaotic early-stage startup or engineering for enterprise scale, I’m down. Currently looking for Full-time roles, heres my Resume!

Feel free to reach out on Linkedin or drop an email shikhar.malik@stern.nyu.edu to get in touch.