About

Ashish Uppala is a Senior Software Engineer at scite, a company that aims to improve the way science is conducted. With almost 6 years of relevant experience, Ashish has worked on various projects across the stack, including data ingestion, product design, and development. He has built an ingestion pipeline to process full-text articles from academic publishers and has established new partnerships with publishers. Ashish has also led product usability studies and conducted interviews with users to gather feedback and drive product improvements. Aside from his work at scite, Ashish has also worked as a Full Stack Engineer at Upside Business Travel and as a Software Engineer at Capital One. At Upside Business Travel, he developed features across the stack in React/Redux, NodeJS, TypeScript, and Go. Ashish also solved a distributed locking problem and led the re-design of a core internal nodeJS service, saving the company money and improving its reliability. At Capital One, he worked on improving the supplier outreach process using React/Go and helped take a third-party machine learning pipeline to production. Ashish holds a Master’s Degree in Information Systems and a Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland. He also attended Poolesville High School. Ashish is proficient in various technologies, including AI, AWS, Python, Redux, Apache Airflow, ML, Postgres, NodeJS, TypeScript, and UI. He has also developed the scite plugin for Zotero, enabling users to see scite specific information for each paper in their research library. Overall, Ashish is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a strong background in data ingestion, product design, and development. He has a passion for improving the way science is conducted and is committed to driving product improvements through user feedback and data analysis.