Overview
Shashank Somal is Founder & CEO at Phinite.ai [1][3]. Somal holds a Master's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from New York University [12] and completed the Program for Leadership Development at Harvard Business School [11]. Prior to founding Phinite.ai in December 2024 [3], Somal worked as a Lead Engineer in Architecture Engineering at Altice USA from August 2020 to November 2024 [5], following earlier roles as Senior Engineer at the same company [6][7]. Somal also co-founded Tap'n from January 2022 to April 2024 [8] and founded Tapit from January 2019 to December 2021 [9]. Additionally, Somal participated as a Fellow with On Deck from January to April 2021 [10] and as an In Residency Entrepreneur with Antler from March to June 2025 [4]. Somal describes themselves as a technologist, generalist, and avid learner with background in telecommunications networks, wireless communications, software architectures, and data science [2].
Profile introduction
Believer of ‘basics are tough' , 3 times triathlete at NYC tri, meditator, Masters in EE from NYU, Researcher in college, Lead architect engineer at telecom company, worked on telecomm networks, wireless communications, realtime communications, ventured into coding, software architectures, explored data science techniques and architectures, and many more learnings along the way - I am a technologist, a generalist and an avid learner.
Career history
- Founder & CEODec 2024 to presentPhinite.ai
- In Residency EntrepreneurMar 2025 to Jun 2025Antler
- Architecture Engineering - Lead EngineerAug 2020 to Nov 2024Altice USA
- Architecture Engineering - Senior EngineerMar 2017 to Aug 2020Altice USA
- Systems Technology - Senior EngineerJun 2015 to Dec 2017Altice USA
- Co-FounderJan 2022 to Apr 2024Tap'n
- FounderJan 2019 to Dec 2021Tapit
- FellowJan 2021 to Apr 2021On Deck
Education
Program for Leadership Development (PLD), Executive EducationHarvard Business School
Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics EngineeringNew York University
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