About

Ankit Chaurasia is a skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in various scientific programming tools. He has a strong grounding in engineering, design, and research, with expertise in Python, C++, SQL, NoSQL, Apache Airflow, Django, FastAPI, Data Engineering, Analytics, and Reporting. Ankit is passionate about exploring ways to improve the lives of people in developing countries with well-designed technological interventions. Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Astronomer, Ankit has previously worked with startups focused on AR/VR camera applications and SDKs, drone data analysis, and was also a founding engineer at a startup in the home improvement space. He has also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, where he led engineering teams across multiple projects in the healthcare and agriculture domains. Ankit has reduced the video buffering time by 75% on the open-source CVAT annotation tool by adding Redis cache to cache the frames during data ingestion. He has also designed, developed, and deployed a pest management system, which runs a PyTorch-based model on the phone/cloud to identify harmful pests, alert farmers about infestation, and reduce crop loss in cotton farming. Currently being used by over 11,000 farmers, the system won a $2 million grant as part of the Google AI Impact Challenge offered to only 20 teams worldwide, becoming the only team from India to do so and featuring in Google I/O and Google for India. Ankit obtained his B.Tech at NIT Warangal, where he founded an award-winning startup that built a real-time position reporting system for buses without using GPS. He is also a robotics enthusiast and was a Fellow at Teach for India. An aspiring polymath, Ankit is always eager to learn and grow. Ankit's tech stack includes Software Engineering, AI, AWS, Python, Apache Airflow, SQL, ML, Django, Web, Research Scientist, Data Engineering, NoSQL, Redis, Microservices, Backend, C, Integration, OpenCV, Flask, PyTorch, Sagemaker, Docker, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, MongoDB, DevOps, and Frontend.