Ankush Agarwal
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnkush Agarwal is a senior infrastructure engineer and technical leader with 12 years building high-performance distributed systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. He has driven core tooling and resilience work for the Libra/Diem blockchain at Facebook, helping the team reach production-grade performance and fault-injection experimentation for 1000 TPS targets. Previously a core maintainer and author on Google’s Kubeflow project, he built distributed TensorFlow training, model serving, and hyperparameter tuning infrastructure that made ML at scale easier to deploy on Kubernetes. His open-source contributions span cloud and container ecosystems—including Cloud SQL Proxy Unix socket support and cluster-test improvements for Diem—that reflect a focus on reliability, testing, and operational excellence. As a founder and chief architect at Co:Create he designed secure, scalable blockchain services for token management, blending product delivery with deep systems expertise. Unusually for an engineer of his profile, he also holds a private pilot license, hinting at an appetite for disciplined, hands-on skill development beyond software.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Indian Institute of Technology BombayPrivate Pilot Licence Aircraft Pilot (Private), Private Pilot Licence Aircraft Pilot (Private) at AeroDynamic AviationCoursework Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Coursework Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Stanford University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (34)
kubernetes10
consensus10
container10
google-cloud-platform10
docker10
postgresql10
api-design10
testing10
dockers10
cicd10
gcp10
go10
cloud-sql10
google-cloud10
blockchain10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
diem/diem
Oct 2019 - Oct 2021
Diem’s mission is to build a trusted and innovative financial network that empowers people and businesses around the world.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:54 reviews, 159 commits, 195 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ankush contributed significantly to the core infrastructure and testing of the Diem blockchain project. They implemented an integration test for state synchronization, demonstrating expertise in the blockchain's consensus mechanism and node behavior under failure conditions. They also worked on the cluster-test framework, adding functionality to interact with libra-swarm and introducing packet loss experiments. Furthermore, the user's contributions also include modifications to the cluster-test scripts, adding a utility to delete DB files, and setting up the test environment's DNS.
diemfinancialtrustedethereumblockchain
moby/moby
Dec 2014 - Aug 2015
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 37 PRs, 201 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ankush primarily contributed to improving the codebase of the Moby project, focusing on enhancing the Docker daemon's functionality. Their work involved fixing comments, renaming variables for improved readability, refactoring code for efficiency and fixing code to align with coding standards. They also integrated new features and validated port specifications. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the maintainability and functionality of the Docker project.
containerscollaborative-projectgolangcontainer-ecosystemdocker
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