ANIROCKSHADY

I go by Ani. I started in aerospace engineering and customer service at the same time. Not because I had a plan — because waiting felt like waste.

That pattern hasn't changed. Every role I've taken was in a domain I had no prior right to be competent in. IT incident response while finishing a Master's in Data Science. AI/ML engineering at Ricoh while co-founding VivaShelf outside working hours. The titles look scattered. The throughline is compression — pick up something hard, deliver before anyone expects it, move.

Right now I'm an AI/ML Automation Engineer at Ricoh Europe, where I shipped five production AI proof-of-concepts in my first six months across ITSM, CSM, and FSM domains. I also co-founded VivaShelf — a food waste SaaS for restaurant operators. This site is where I publish what I'm learning along the way.