Ankith Uppunda
Lead Software Engineer at Alteryx
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkith Uppunda is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems, distributed services, and NLP-driven solutions, currently based in New York and leading engineering efforts at Alteryx. He blends strong academic foundations from UCLA—where he researched BERT/ELMo encodings for gene ontologies and multilingual knowledge transfer—with practical production experience on data platforms at Amazon and Trifacta. At Alteryx he progressed from software engineer to lead, shaping scalable backend architectures and cross-functional delivery. His early internships at VMware and hands-on work with Go, Python, Kubernetes, and Terraform show a comfort with infrastructure and platform tooling as well as machine learning systems. Ankith’s background reveals a rare intersection of applied math, research-grade NLP experience, and pragmatic backend engineering that helps bridge models into production. He’s motivated by combining mathematical rigor with software craftsmanship to deliver reliable, data-driven systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (22)
sdk10
vcd10
vcloud-director10
vmware9
golang9
go9
kubernetes-deployment7
python7
cli6
iaas6
command-line-interface6
k8s5
kubernetes4
encoder4
ontology4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
auppunda/registertool
Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
auppunda/AirHockey
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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