Shiv
Godhia

Shiv, smiling, at an outdoor beer garden

Software engineer building AI agents at Traba in New York. Before that, four years as a machine learning engineer at Two Sigma in London.

  • Traba
  • Two Sigma
  • Amazon
  • University of Cambridge

Work

Software Engineer, Agents team New York, 2025–now

  • ScoutTraba's AI agent that vets workers. I build and scale it.
  • LLMsa multi-stage system that reads call transcripts to judge worker qualifications
  • Evalsan internal platform for measuring AI assessment quality, used across the team
  • Kafkaa pipeline that turns every call and message into evidence-backed facts about each worker

How we built Scout

Machine Learning Engineer London, 2021–2025

  • 3×faster ML research, from a Ray-based compute framework I designed
  • ½the compute cost for the same work
  • 80%of the main forecasting library's models exported to production
  • 85%faster tests on an internal distributed compute framework

Software Engineer Intern, Alexa Cambridge, UK, 2020

  • Typesa static type system for the language Alexa uses to write its answers
  • Offera return offer at the end of the 12 weeks

MA and BA in Computer Science Gonville & Caius College, 2018–2021

  • DissertationDetecting hate speech in internet memes, using language and images together.
  • ScholarshipCambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust.
  • DataProphetData science intern in Cape Town, 2019. Autoencoders for a Mercedes-Benz production line.
  • Scope NewsResearch intern, 2019. A news summariser with adjustable length, adapting Microsoft's MASS.

Singapore 2016–2018

  • A*STAR I2RResearch intern. A 3D labelling tool for LiDAR data, and pipelines for 100+ TB of it.
  • Singapore Armed ForcesNational service. Automated workout tracking for 50+ people.

On the side

Apps I've built and shipped on my own.

SkribOS Transcripts and summaries for every voice note

Hours of voice notes, and no way to search them.

Send it a voice note, get the gist back

A transcript with speakers, plus the short version, key points and action items.

Record from your wrist

Apple Watch app, iPhone app, web app and Telegram bot.

Ask Claude about everything you've recorded

An MCP server connects your archive to Claude and ChatGPT.

  • 1,386commits since February
  • 5apps, including Apple Watch

Live in beta at skribos.com. Watch and iPhone apps in TestFlight.

Ghost Fighter An iPhone fighting game against copies of your friends

Train a ghost of yourself. Dare your friends to beat it.

Your ghost learns from every match you win

Then you send a link, and friends play a best of three against it.

  • 1,057tests on the fight simulation
  • 60fps, locked on iPhone

In TestFlight now.

Margin A Mac writing app with an AI editor

AI writing tools rewrite you. Margin reads your edits instead.

It suggests. You decide.

The AI never touches your text. It proposes edits you accept or reject.

  • 214commits in under two weeks
  • v0.2.8signed Mac app that updates itself

margin.shivgodhia.com

Haze How Ah? Singapore's air quality, answered in Singlish

Haze season. Can go outside anot?

One answer, plus a ping when it gets hazy

The site turns NEA's readings into one line. The Telegram bot alerts your side of the island.

  • 1day from first commit to live
  • 49pull requests in its first week

Free at hazehowah.com.

Grove One command gives every AI agent its own workspace

Running agents in parallel means a dozen worktrees by hand.

One command sets up every repo

Matching branches, one tmux session, your agent started.

  • DailyI built everything on this page with it
  • Opensource

github.com/shivgodhia/grove

Earlier hackathon projects