Ashish Lakra

Product Manager

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States3 yrs experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in AI development and natural language processing.
Proven track record in scaling enterprise API systems.
Strong background in cloud infrastructure and automation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled AI and API management developer in the Telecommunications industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai DevelopmentComputer VisionNatural Language ProcessingApi ManagementCloud Infrastructure

Other Skills

PythonOpenCVAgentic AI DevelopmentLarge Language Models (LLM)API GatewayDockerKubernetesVision-Language Models (VLMs)Data AnnotationAI AgentsConvolutional Neural Networks (CNN)Artificial Intelligence (AI)TensorFlowAlgorithmsAlgorithm Analysis

About

As a graduate student pursuing an MS in Computer Science at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, I am currently working as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Bloustein School of Rutgers. My research focuses on applying Agentic AI solutions in areas including but not limited to Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Additionally, I'm working as an AI Developer at Rutgers CAIT, designing and building AI-powered solutions using Vision Language Models (VLMs). Previously, I gained industry experience at Airtel Digital, where I contributed to building and scaling enterprise API platform and management system, and implementing cloud-based infrastructure solutions for platform integrations. With proven skills in building scalable solutions, Python, NLP, LLMs and AI agents, I am motivated to collaborate on innovative projects that address real-world challenges with impactful solutions.

Experience

3 yrs

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Rutgers cait: center for advanced infrastructure and transportation

Full Stack AI Developer

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos · New Brunswick, NJ

Developing an AI-powered solution using object detection and vision LMs to identify off-platform rail car doors from video surveillance data for a U.S. East Coast railroad network.

PythonOpenCVAI DevelopmentComputer Vision

Rutgers university edward j. bloustein school of planning and public policy

Graduate Research Assistant

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos · New Brunswick, NJ

Working with Dr. Jim Samuel on research projects in areas including but not limited to NLP, LLMs and AI.

Agentic AI DevelopmentLarge Language Models (LLM)Natural Language ProcessingAI Development

Airtel digital

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2024 – Jul 2025 · 7 mos · Gurugram

Scaled enterprise API Gateway using Kubernetes to handle more than 500M daily transactions for more than 2000 REST APIs, maintaining 99.99% availability.
Orchestrated GSMA Camera APIs integration for partner API externalization
Enabled passive health-checking with outlier detection, achieving p99 total API request duration of 15s.
Implemented zero-downtime automated migration of 300+ REST APIs and their live traffic from Kong to Gloo API Gateway

API GatewayDockerAPI ManagementCloud Infrastructure

Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram

Scaled enterprise API gateway system on 8+ Kubernetes clusters to handle 10M+ daily transactions across 20+ platform applications.
Automated API integration via CI/CD pipeline, reducing manual configurations by ~92%.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders to streamline, integrate and operationalize more than 1000 REST APIs on API Gateway platform.
Governed envoy proxy features through POCs and standardized implementations.
Facilitated cross-datacenter distributed authentication for Gloo API Gateway platform.

API GatewayDockerAPI ManagementCloud Infrastructure

Young Technical Leader

Jul 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr · Gurugram

Worked in the Integrations Platform team to build and deploy enterprise API gateway and management system, end-to-end, using Gloo API Gateway and Kubernetes
Migrated over 500 REST APIs from OKD to OCP with zero-downtime.
Operationalized API onboarding to Gloo Gateway for 10+ cross-functional teams, following adherence to standardized implementations and best practices.