Shantanu started his professional career as an engineer in the year 1990 at The Music Room, Bombay. Starting off as a general gopher he went on to head the studio as Chief Engineer in 1991. In this capacity he engineered numerous radio and television commercials, documentaries, independent artistes, and a couple of feature films.

Shantanu’s studio career speaks for itself with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Rupert Hine, Gustavo Santaolala, Dr. Ilaya Raja, John Leckie, The Bombay Dub Orchestra, Deep Forrest, Ranjit Barot, Shakti (featuring John McLaughlin, Ustad Zakir Hussein), Rock Machine (now Indus Creed), A R Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Asha Putli, Louis Banks, Vishal & Shekhar, Pyarelal Sharma, Colonial Cousins and Pritam or young artists like Gino Banks, Advaita, Tarun Balani Collective, Black, Adil & Vasundhara and many more.

Shantanu has also worked with some of the finest names in advertising and film such as Highlight Films, Whitelight, Genesis, Yashraj Films, Dharma Productions, Excel Entertainment, Amir Khan Productions and Vinod Chopra Productions to name but a few. His sheer passion, enthusiasm and high caliber craftsmanship has won respect from all quarters for his single-minded pursuit of sonic excellence with an onus on acoustic recording using complex multiple microphone techniques. 

Shantanu has been Chief Engineer at Yash Raj Films Studios since 2005.