Shashank Viswanadha is a Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind, where he focuses on advancing agentic AI through post-training data strategies for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL), and on designing robust simulation environments and “gyms” to support autonomous agents. Before moving into AI research, Shashank built high-performance trading systems for options and futures markets at major financial institutions including Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, and UBS.