Shannon Lal

I am an Engineering Manager with experience leading large-scale projects in both public and private sectors. I have collaborated with CEO and VP level executives on development and refinement of both

Montreal, Quebec, Canada Joined on Nov 17, 2019 https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonlal/

Education

University of Ottawa

Work

VP Engineering at Designstripe

Javascript, Typescript, Angular, React, Java, Python, Prompt Engineering, NestJS, NextJS

Fine-Tuning LLMs and Prompt Engineering

FineTuning LLMs and general prompt engineering

Blogging, Writing Articles, Podcasts

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Shannon Lal

Dec 20

Enhancing Hybrid Search in MongoDB: Combining RRF, Thresholds, and Weights

#mongodb #ai #vectordatabase #rag

2 min read

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Shannon Lal

Dec 19

Serverless GPU Computing: A Technical Deep Dive into CloudRun

#devfest #ai #llm #googlecloud

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Dec 3

InstaMesh: Transforming Still Images into Dynamic Videos

#ai #llm #gpu #texttovideo

4 min read

Shannon Lal

Nov 22

Optimizing MongoDB Hybrid Search with Reciprocal Rank Fusion

#ai #vectordatabase #mongodb #rag

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Nov 19

Understanding Search Scores in MongoDB Hybrid Search

#mongodb #vectordatabase #hybridsearch #ai

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Nov 13

MongoDB Atlas Search Scoring: Using Constant and Function Modifiers

#ai #mongodb #vectordatabase

2 min read

Shannon Lal

Nov 12

Understanding MongoDB Atlas Search Scoring for Better Search Results

#mongodb #hybridsearch #ai

2 min read

Shannon Lal

Oct 24

Implementing Complex Semantic Search with MongoDB

#ai #mongodb #openai #vectordatabase

4 min read

Shannon Lal

Oct 17

Google Log-Based Metrics

#googlecloud #metrics #openai #performance

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Aug 22

Revolutionizing Code Testing with Claude Dev: A Journey into AI-Assisted Unit Test Generation

#ai #llm #anthropic #claudedev

2 min read

Shannon Lal

Jul 29

AI Development with Claude Dev

#llm #ai #anthropic #vscode

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Jul 24

Debugging large code bases with ChromaDB and Langchain

#llm #langchain #legacy #chromadb

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Jul 4

Google PubSub: Number of Unread Messages

#pubsub #googlecloud #typescript

2 min read

Shannon Lal

Jul 1

Is your fine-tuned LLM any good?

#llm #ai #finetuning #evaluate

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Jun 24

Running multiple LLMs on a single GPU

#llm #gpu #ai #python

2 min read

Shannon Lal

Apr 11

Unit Testing LLMs with DeepEval

#llm #ai #unittest #deepeval

5 min read

Shannon Lal

Apr 5

Exploring Prompt Compression with LLMLingua: Balancing Efficiency and Quality

#llm #ai #promptengineering #llmlingua

2 min read

Shannon Lal

Apr 3

Unleashing the Power of LLMLingua: Prompt Compression Performance Testing

#ai #llmlingua #promptengineering #llm

2 min read

Shannon Lal

Mar 26

Mastering Prompt Compression with LLM Lingua: A Deep Dive into Context Optimization

#ai #promptengineering #rag #promptcompression

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Mar 26

How Prompt Compression Enhances RAG Models

#ai #rag #promptengineering #llmlingua

2 min read

Shannon Lal

Feb 28

Creating Thumbnails for a Video in Python with FFMPEG

#moviepy #ffmeg #videocompressoin #python

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Feb 26

Mastering Video Previews: A Guide to Compressed Videos and Thumbnails

#ffmpeg #videocompression #openai #sora

2 min read

Shannon Lal

Feb 19

Navigating Hybrid Search with MongoDB: Ugly Approach

#ai #vectordatabase #mongodb #openai

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Feb 14

Building Blocks for Hybrid Search: Combining Keyword and Semantic Search

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Feb 12

Unlocking the Power of Hybrid Search

3 min read

Shannon Lal

Feb 9

Google Gemini: Performance

#ai #llm #gemini #performance

2 min read

Shannon Lal

Sep 13 '23

Unit Testing React Applications in a NX (NRWL) Monorepo with Vitest

5 min read

Shannon Lal

Sep 5 '23

Enabling Feature Flags in NextJS

4 min read

Shannon Lal

Jul 22 '23

Pre-Training LLM

#ai #llm #pretrainin #finetuning

2 min read

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