Ankit Chaurasia

Senior Software Engineer

India10 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key 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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Software Engineer with deep expertise in data engineering and AI/ML.

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Skills

Core Skills

Apache AirflowPythonConversational AiMicrosoft AzureGoogle Cloud Platform (gcp)Data Engineering

Other Skills

SQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)LangChainObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Prompt EngineeringDatabasesData StructuresAirflowLarge Language Models (LLM)SnowflakeDjangoTest AutomationC++AlgorithmsProgramming

About

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/

Experience

10 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
4 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Astronomer

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Remote

  • Spearheaded core features in Apache Airflow 3.0 – including AIP-83 (model training and generative AI inference) and AIP-72 (multi-cloud and multi-language support); built a Ruff linter + config tool enabling seamless migration from Airflow 2.x to 3.0, pivotal to Astronomer’s $93M Series D success.
  • Led development of Astro Runtime, Astronomer’s production-grade Airflow distribution; managed 80% of major releases with complex dependency chains to ensure Day-0 customer compatibility; engineered a new logging module leveraging HTTP endpoints that reduced Docker image size by 80%.
  • Built Ask-Astro, an open-source chatbot for Airflow and Astronomer powered by Generative AI – orchestrated documentation ingestion with Airflow, vector embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines; showcased practical LLMOps in production.
  • Boosted engineering efficiency by introducing nightly build workflows for early regression detection (cut manual testing by 90%) and establishing AI coding assistant best practices (Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate developer productivity.
  • Created apache-airflow-providers-transfers, a unified interface replacing 100+ specialized data transfer operators, and co-authored the Astro Python SDK, simplifying ETL by abstracting Airflow boilerplate.
  • Enabled deferrable mode for 80+ Airflow operators and sensors using lightweight async triggers, freeing worker slots and cutting compute costs by up to 70%.
  • Impactful 130+ open source commits to Open Source Apache Airflow.
  • Speaker at Apache Airflow Summit (2022–2025):
  • Beyond Execution Dates: Empowering inference execution and hyperparameter tuning with Airflow 3
  • Seamless Airflow Upgrades: Migrating from 2.x to 3
  • Mastering Advanced Dataset Scheduling in Apache Airflow
  • Love for Writing Deferrable Operators – Why and How to Defer?
  • Keynote speaker at Microsoft IDC Hyderabad on “Data Pipelines from ETL → ML → LLM: Powered by Apache Airflow.”
Apache AirflowSQLAmazon Web Services (AWS)LangChainObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Python+10

Wadhwani ai

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Hired and leading engineering teams across multiple projects in the healthcare and agriculture domains.
  • Leading engineering effort for annotation studio which is data(artefacts and annotation) management and job orchestration platform to manage, schedule and orchestrate annotation job across multiple annotation vendors using Apache Airflow, FastAPI and React.
  • Engineered various micro-services being used by multiple teams like authentication and authorization service, geospatial directory and emailing-service using Django, AWS SES, OAuth 2.0, AWS cognito and Fargate.
  • Reduced the video buffering time by 75% on open-source CVAT annotation tool by adding Redis cache to cache the frames during data ingestion.
Microsoft Azure

Software Product Engineer

Feb 2019 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Designed, developed and deployed a pest management system which runs a pytorch based model on the phone/cloud to identify the harmful pests, alert farmers about infestation and reduce crop loss in cotton farming. Currently being used by over 11,000 farmers.
  • Part of the team that 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.
  • Developed pipeline for data collection(ODK) , annotation (LabelMe), model deployment (online on-cloud and offline on-device), analytics dashboard along with open APIs for third-party integration and Django backend.
  • Built a covid-19 mobility dashboard integrating with COVID-19 Mobility Data Network and Facebook Data For Good which enabled 11 state government authorities in India with actionable insight to optimize emergency protocols in line with epidemic spread and identifying high movement areas.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Dreamvu inc.

Software Development Engineer

Dec 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Developed end to end modular video acquisition and processing software for VR/AR and machine vision applications(for in-house camera) along with SDK for third party integration which helped to secure an angel funding from SRI capital.
  • Built camera calibration software for in house intrinsic and extrinsic camera calibration.

Aapkapainter.com

Senior Software Developer

Aug 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Joined as a founding team member and developed the Customer Relationship Management(CRM) and task management system along with sales and marketing automation platform using Codeigniter.
  • Built the customer and vendor transaction module by integrating with payment gateway (Razorpay). Transaction of more than INR 10 million on monthly basis across the user base.
  • Built a Flask-Restful API​ to extract the room wall measurements from the floor plan images ​using Google Cloud Vision, Ocropus and Tesseract​ parallelly.
  • Created an application for real-time wall paint and texture visualizer by training Haar Classifier​ to detect the walls.
  • Worked extensively on Search Engine Optimisation(SEO)​ and Search Engine Marketing(SEM)

Trackthisbus

Project Lead

Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 · 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • As part of the Design Challenge hosted by the Indian School of Business Hyderabad founded a ​startup which created a fully ​ working position-reporting system for local buses that displays the real-time position of the​ ​ bus​ ​ in​ ​ a ​ ​ city​ ​ with​ ​ its​ ​ timetable​ ​ and​ ​ route​ ​ details​ ​ without​ ​ using​ ​ GPS,​ ​ as​ ​ a product.
  • Our​ ​ team​ ​ was​ ​ the​ ​ winner​ ​ of​ ​ the​​ ​ Design​ ​ Challenge​​ ​ by​ ​ the​ ​Indian​ ​ School​ ​ of​ ​ Business,​ ​ Hyderabad.
  • Pitched our idea to the Telangana IT minister

Technozion, nit warangal

Quality Control and Management Coordinator

Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr · NIT Warangal

  • Got ISO 9001:2008 certification and UNESCO patronage for Technozion 15, South India’s second Largest Technical fest. The fest saw a revenue of over 1.5Crore INR( 200kUSD) from sponsorships and events.
  • Was responsible for leading, coordination, quality control, risk management, blogging and management for various 150+ events during Technozion 15

Education

National Institute of Technology Warangal

Bachelor's in technology — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2012 – Jan 2016

Indian School of Business

Bachelor's degree — Technology Entrepreneurship Program

Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

SOS Hermann Gmeiner Higher Secondary School Bharatpur, Nepal

Grade 12

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011

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