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

35 posts published

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Shannon Lal

Apr 13

Overview of Voice Cloning

#ai #texttospeech #11labs

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Apr 10

Behind the Curtain: How Modern Text-to-Speech AI Works

#ai #tts #llm

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Jan 16

Unlocking Code Insights with Repomix and Google's Flash 2.0 for Efficient Repository Analysis

#ai #llm #cline #google

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Jan 9

Speeding up your GitHub workflow with Cline 3.0 and MCP

#ai #promptengineering #mcp #llm

2 min read

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Shannon Lal

Dec 31 '24

Improving LLM Code Generation with Prompt Engineering

#ai #llm #genai #promptengineering

2 min read

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Shannon Lal

Dec 30 '24

Speeding Up Development with AI and Cline

#ai #vscode #llm

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Dec 20 '24

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 '24

Serverless GPU Computing: A Technical Deep Dive into CloudRun

#devfest #ai #llm #googlecloud

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Dec 3 '24

InstaMesh: Transforming Still Images into Dynamic Videos

#ai #llm #gpu #texttovideo

4 min read

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Shannon Lal

Nov 22 '24

Optimizing MongoDB Hybrid Search with Reciprocal Rank Fusion

#ai #vectordatabase #mongodb #rag

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Nov 19 '24

Understanding Search Scores in MongoDB Hybrid Search

#mongodb #vectordatabase #hybridsearch #ai

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Nov 13 '24

MongoDB Atlas Search Scoring: Using Constant and Function Modifiers

#ai #mongodb #vectordatabase

2 min read

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Shannon Lal

Nov 12 '24

Understanding MongoDB Atlas Search Scoring for Better Search Results

#mongodb #hybridsearch #ai

2 min read

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Shannon Lal

Oct 24 '24

Implementing Complex Semantic Search with MongoDB

#ai #mongodb #openai #vectordatabase

4 min read

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Shannon Lal

Oct 17 '24

Google Log-Based Metrics

#googlecloud #metrics #openai #performance

3 min read

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

Shannon Lal

Aug 22 '24

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

#ai #llm #anthropic #claudedev

2 min read

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Shannon Lal

Jul 29 '24

AI Development with Claude Dev

#llm #ai #anthropic #vscode

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Jul 24 '24

Debugging large code bases with ChromaDB and Langchain

#llm #langchain #legacy #chromadb

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Jul 4 '24

Google PubSub: Number of Unread Messages

#pubsub #googlecloud #typescript

2 min read

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Shannon Lal

Jul 1 '24

Is your fine-tuned LLM any good?

#llm #ai #finetuning #evaluate

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Jun 24 '24

Running multiple LLMs on a single GPU

#llm #gpu #ai #python

2 min read

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Shannon Lal

Apr 11 '24

Unit Testing LLMs with DeepEval

#llm #ai #unittest #deepeval

5 min read

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Shannon Lal

Apr 5 '24

Exploring Prompt Compression with LLMLingua: Balancing Efficiency and Quality

#llm #ai #promptengineering #llmlingua

2 min read

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Shannon Lal

Apr 3 '24

Unleashing the Power of LLMLingua: Prompt Compression Performance Testing

#ai #llmlingua #promptengineering #llm

2 min read

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

Shannon Lal

Mar 26 '24

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

#ai #promptengineering #rag #promptcompression

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Mar 26 '24

How Prompt Compression Enhances RAG Models

#ai #rag #promptengineering #llmlingua

2 min read

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Shannon Lal

Feb 28 '24

Creating Thumbnails for a Video in Python with FFMPEG

#moviepy #ffmeg #videocompressoin #python

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Feb 26 '24

Mastering Video Previews: A Guide to Compressed Videos and Thumbnails

#ffmpeg #videocompression #openai #sora

2 min read

Cover image for Navigating Hybrid Search with MongoDB: Ugly Approach

Shannon Lal

Feb 19 '24

Navigating Hybrid Search with MongoDB: Ugly Approach

#ai #vectordatabase #mongodb #openai

3 min read

Cover image for Building Blocks for Hybrid Search: Combining Keyword and Semantic Search

Shannon Lal

Feb 14 '24

Building Blocks for Hybrid Search: Combining Keyword and Semantic Search

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Feb 12 '24

Unlocking the Power of Hybrid Search

3 min read

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Shannon Lal

Feb 9 '24

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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