Ankur Gupta
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnkur Gupta is a Senior Applied Scientist and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and shipping production-grade ML systems across biotech and cloud platforms. He currently leads AI efforts at Amazon and has previously headed AI at a biotech startup where his team developed protein LLMs and AI-designed enzymes for plastic recycling—work that spans research, patents, and grant-funded programs. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding and strategy, he designs scalable serverless pipelines, multimodal LLM search systems, and grammar-constrained generative models that have driven measurable safety gains. A former Salesforce lead, he brings deep experience deploying large-scale NLP and classification models for enterprise and security use cases, plus a PhD in chemical engineering that informs his cross-disciplinary approach. He maintains an active public presence through a technical blog, open-source Python packages, and an online course on asynchronous Python, signaling a commitment to developer education as well as product delivery. Notably, he combines academic rigor with product focus—mentoring teams while continuing to author core code and architect systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Chemical Engineering, PhD, Chemical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.Tech (Hons.), M.Tech, Chemical Engineering, 9.15/10, B.Tech (Hons.), M.Tech, Chemical Engineering, 9.15/10 at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
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Github contributions (5)
ankur-gupta/ankur-gupta.github.io
Jun 2014 - Mar 2021
Personal Blog
Contributions:179 commits, 4 PRs, 105 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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ankur-gupta/async
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
🐍 Async Programming in Python
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 47 pushes in 2 years
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