Summary
Ankit Bahuguna is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale, privacy-focused search and ML systems, currently developing new products at DuckDuckGo in Munich. He blends applied research in NLP, deep learning, and information retrieval with hands-on engineering in Python, Go and Java to ship production web-scale systems and ads/relevancy features. His background includes leading real-time search ranking, near‑real‑time indexing and query-embedding ML pipelines on Kubernetes, Kafka and Cassandra, and improving search precision and recall in multi-language settings. A former founder and active public speaker, he pairs an entrepreneurial product mindset with experience architecting cloud-native, distributed infrastructures and exploring Kubeflow for end-to-end ML. Notably, he has contributed research-grade NLP tools for Indian languages and driven privacy-preserving local search rollouts at global scale.
12 years of coding experience