Ankur Sharma
Software Engineer at Databricks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkur Sharma is a software engineer with nine years of experience building reliable, scalable systems across industry and research, currently working on ML4DB for Autobricks at Databricks in Seattle. He spent several years at Microsoft delivering high‑throughput notification and email systems, improving CI/CD, tenant configurations, and shipping features that improved deliverability and resiliency—work that also produced two patents under review. His background blends applied machine learning research at Microsoft Research and MIT (including through‑wall identity recognition and political social media analysis) with hands‑on product engineering, enabling him to move ideas from prototypes to production. Comfortable across backend platforms, AI pipelines, and large-scale deployment challenges, he brings both academic rigor and pragmatic delivery to complex systems. Ankur’s career shows a pattern of tackling hard, cross-domain problems—from side‑channel security research to enterprise email ecosystems—while shipping user‑facing, impact-driven solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)Research Fellow, Machine Learning, Research Fellow, Machine Learning at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyClass XII, CBSE, 97.60%, Class XII, CBSE, 97.60% at Seth Anandram Jaipuria SchoolClass X, ICSE, 97.00%, Class X, ICSE, 97.00% at St. Mary's Convent School
English, Hindi
Github Skills (8)
monte-carlo-tree-search2
machine-learning2
artificial-intelligence2
reinforcement-learning2
deep-learning2
deep-reinforcement-learning2
fundamentals2
pytorch1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ankursharma-iitd/Ideology-Detection
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 2 pushes in 1 month
ankursharma-iitd/ankursharma-iitd.github.io
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:110 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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