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Engineering · AI · Human experience

Ashish
Shubham.

Engineering Fellow / VP of Engineering · ThoughtSpot

I build the platforms that bring AI and data into everyday work. My focus is enterprise AI agents, embedded analytics, and the developer experience that makes them useful.

Ashish Shubham
San Francisco Bay AreaEngineer. Author. Speaker.
Enterprise AI & analytics

ThoughtSpot Embedded · Spotter · MCP

From ideas to production

Architecture, product, and engineering leadership

Sharing what I learn

Author · Conference speaker · IEEE Senior Member

01 / WORK

Building useful
intelligence.

I joined ThoughtSpot in 2015 as one of its early engineers. Since then, I’ve helped build its foundational product experiences and shape the architecture of its AI and developer platforms.

ThoughtSpot
Embedded

Created and scaled the embedded analytics product suite, bringing interactive, AI-powered analytics into other applications through developer tools and SDKs.

ThoughtSpot profile

Spotter &
agent platforms

Co-architected ThoughtSpot’s AI Analyst and helped define shared infrastructure for production agents: state, streaming, memory, orchestration, and secure tool use.

Read the architecture perspective

AI meets
enterprise data

Led ThoughtSpot’s Agentic MCP Server integration, connecting AI clients to enterprise analytics through a governed, natural-language tool interface.

Explore the MCP integration
02 / SPEAKING

On stage.
In conversation.

Talks, keynotes, and panels on production AI, MicroAgents, analytics, and developer platforms. Recordings are linked where available.

03 / WRITING

Ideas, in depth.

A book, technical articles, and practical guides—from conversational interfaces and web performance to shared agent infrastructure.

The book

Architecting
AI Data Systems

Advanced Concepts for Senior Software Engineers

Coauthored with Sayantan Ghosh. An exploration of the architecture behind modern AI and data systems.

IndiePress

Explore the book

Tutorial · Chatbots Magazine / Medium · Mar 19, 2017

Maintaining context in chatbots

A functional approach to conversational context, with the bot-context library.

04 / INVENTIONS

Patents &
applications.

Co-inventor on U.S. patents spanning natural-language analytics, conversational interfaces, and intelligent search. Related grants are grouped by invention; application publications are labeled separately.

INVENTION / 01

Intelligent search modification guidance

Guiding users toward related analyses and useful modifications of search results.

INVENTION / 02

Natural language question answering systems

Interpreting natural-language questions for structured data analysis.

INVENTION / 03

Conversational database analysis

Maintaining conversational context across successive analytical requests.

INVENTION / 04

Obtaining results data using agentic analysis

Published application with co-inventor Nikhil Yadav.

Named co-inventor; assignee: ThoughtSpot. Records checked September 2026. Linked records include grant and application history.

05 / SERVICE

Reviewing,
judging & advising.

Contributing to research evaluation, professional communities, and industry recognition.

Industry judging

BIG Awards for Business

2025 judging service, listed in my resume. Also listed in the Business Intelligence Group’s public judge directory.

Judge directory
Advisory board

DevNetwork

Listed among DevNetwork’s industry advisory board members.

Advisory board
Editorial service

Associate Editor

Listed as an Associate Editor on SARC Publisher’s editorial team.

Editorial board

2026 reviewer / committee service

ACM CHIHuman Factors in Computing Systems
ACM HRIHuman–Robot Interaction
ACM WSDMWeb Search and Data Mining
IEEE SoutheastConEngineering conference
IEEE ARITHComputer Arithmetic
IEEE Intelligent VehiclesIntelligent Vehicles Symposium
IEEE FISTSForum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems
IEEE ICBDABig Data Analysis
IEEE ICARAControl, Automation and Robotics

Conference reviewer / committee entries follow my September 2026 resume. Source notes

06 / MEDIA

In the press.
On the record.

Interviews, profiles, award coverage, and mentions of my work. Authored contributions appear in the writing section above.

07 / OPEN SOURCE

Built in the open.

Personal projects and ThoughtSpot repositories featured on my GitHub profile. Practical tools for developers, interfaces, and conversational systems.

Personal project

webshot-factory

Web screenshots at scale using headless Chrome.

Personal project

bot-context

Functional tools for maintaining conversational context in chatbots.

Personal project

tokenizer.js

Runtime text tokenization for interactive web experiences.

Personal project

w3c-keys

KeyboardEvent.key-compatible key codes with TypeScript definitions.

ThoughtSpot project

pdom

Exploring multithreaded DOM rendering.

08 / BACKGROUND

Engineering,
with a product lens.

My work brings together systems architecture, front-end engineering, and human–computer interaction. Before ThoughtSpot, I worked on web products at GoDaddy and maps and hyperlocal research at Nokia.

Outside work: snowboarding and surfing.

  • 2015–present
    ThoughtSpot

    Engineering Fellow / Vice President of Engineering

  • 2013–2015
    GoDaddy

    Senior Software Engineer · Website Builder

  • 2011–2013
    Nokia Research

    Research Software Engineer · Maps and Hyperlocal

  • 2009
    Microsoft Research

    Research Intern · Human–Computer Interaction

  • 2006–2011
    IIT Kharagpur

    BS / MS in Computer Science & Engineering

Recognition

IEEE Senior Member
Built In Tech Innovator Award, 2021

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