Ankit Chaurasia
Data Platform Engineer
India
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Top SchoolAnkit Chaurasia is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building data-driven systems and developer tooling, currently advancing Apache Airflow usability at Astronomer through the Universal Transfer Operator and Astro Python SDK. He blends backend engineering and data engineering expertise—contributing notable open-source improvements to Apache Airflow such as enhanced S3 filtering, Amazon DMS integration fixes, and deferrable hooks/sensors that improve workflow efficiency at scale. Previously he led engineering efforts at Wadhwani AI, delivering production ML pipelines, annotation orchestration, and microservices that power healthcare and agriculture products used by thousands of farmers. Comfortable from low-level video and camera calibration work to cloud-native APIs and distributed task orchestration, he pairs practical product impact with open-source craftsmanship. Ankit’s background in founding-stage engineering and a Technology Entrepreneurship program at ISB gives him a rare mix of product instinct and systems-level execution.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Grade 12, Grade 12 at SOS Hermann Gmeiner Higher Secondary School Bharatpur, NepalBachelor's in technology Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor's in technology Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology WarangalBachelor's degree Technology Entrepreneurship Program, Bachelor's degree Technology Entrepreneurship Program at Indian School of Business
Nepali, Hindi, English, Bhojpuri, Maithili
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Github Skills (16)
aws-s310
apache-airflow10
amazon-s310
aws10
python10
s3-bucket10
data-engineering9
asyncio8
mypy7
google-bigquery6
google-cloud-composer6
csv6
amazon-ec26
directed-acyclic-graph6
airflow6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Jun 2021 - Mar 2026
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Backend Engineer & Data Engineer
Backend Engineer & Data EngineerContributions:729 reviews, 127 PRs, 852 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ankit primarily contributed to improving the Amazon DMS (Database Migration Service) integration within the Apache Airflow project, fixing MyPy errors in the related hooks and operators. They also added new arguments like `start_after_key`, `from_datetime`, `to_datetime`, and `object_filter` to the S3Hook's `list_keys` function, improving the filtering capabilities for S3 object listings. Further contributions include the implementation of the HttpAsyncHook for deferrable implementation and adding the deferrable mode for the S3KeySensor and S3KeysUnchangedSensor to provide more flexibility for the users.
airflowapache-airflowapachepythonscheduler
astronomer/ask-astro
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
An end-to-end LLM reference implementation providing a Q&A interface for Airflow and Astronomer
Contributions:2 releases, 241 reviews, 74 PRs in 1 year 5 months
airflowllmastronomerllm-ops
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