Ankit Chaurasia — Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience in software engineering, data engineering, and AI/ML. Currently at Astronomer, where I'm a key contributor to Apache Airflow with 140+ open-source contributions - building features adopted by thousands of organizations running Airflow in production. Speaker at multiple Airflow Summits; keynote at Microsoft IDC Hyderabad. Deep expertise in Python, Data structures and Algorithms, scalable backend systems, Apache Airflow, Spark, Kafka, Flink, Python, SQL/NoSQL, Snowflake, data pipelines, ETL/ELT, microservices, distributed systems, and LLMOps. Previously first engineer at Wadhwani AI - built and scaled the engineering org to 25+ members, shipping AI products in healthcare and agriculture that serve 11,000+ farmers and helped 11 state governments optimize COVID-19 response. Winner of the $2M Google AI Impact Challenge. Published at KDD 2020. B.Tech CS from NIT Warangal. ISB Hyderabad Technology Entrepreneurship Programme. Passionate about using technology to improve lives in developing countries. Always an aspiring polymath! 🏠https://ankitchaurasia.info/
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with deep expertise in data engineering and AI/ML.
Experience: 10 yrs 8 mos
Skills
- Apache Airflow
- Python
- Conversational Ai
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (gcp)
- Data Engineering
Career Highlights
- Key contributor to Apache Airflow with 140+ open-source contributions.
- Led engineering efforts impacting 11,000+ farmers and state governments.
- Winner of the $2M Google AI Impact Challenge.
Work Experience
Astronomer
Senior Software Engineer (4 yrs 5 mos)
Wadhwani AI
Senior Software Engineer (1 yr)
Software Product Engineer (1 yr 11 mos)
DreamVu Inc.
Software Development Engineer (1 yr 1 mo)
aapkapainter.com
Senior Software Developer (1 yr 3 mos)
TrackThisBus
Project Lead (11 mos)
Technozion, NIT Warangal
Quality Control and Management Coordinator (1 yr)
Education
Bachelor's in technology at National Institute of Technology Warangal
Bachelor's degree at Indian School of Business
Grade 12 at SOS Hermann Gmeiner Higher Secondary School Bharatpur, Nepal