Ankush Shah
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnkush Shah is a software engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in machine learning, NLP, and recommendation systems, currently building place extraction and ranking features for Google Maps in Mountain View. His work spans research-driven NLP (including patent information extraction and short-text classification) to production ML at scale (resume scoring, e-commerce product extraction, and market sentiment–driven index prediction). Past roles include AI research on malware classification and deep-learning NLP at Fraunhofer, and early engineering across analytics, 3D mapping, and embedded image processing. He combines strong academic foundations from NIT Karnataka and Bonn with a pragmatic ability to move proofs-of-concept into user-facing Google products. An interesting through-line is his focus on turning noisy, real-world text and web data into concise, actionable signals for ranking and recommendation.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 1.2 / 5, Master's degree, Computer Science, 1.2 / 5 at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn / University of BonnBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 8.96 / 10, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 8.96 / 10 at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
data-mining10
text-mining10
docx10
natural-language-processing9
python9
nlp8
http6
heroku6
merge6
python-docx6
pandas6
filter6
python-requests6
html3
scraper1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ankushshah89/python-docx2txt
Oct 2015 - May 2017
A pure python based utility to extract text and images from docx files.
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 7 months
docxpython
ankushshah89/ArticleCleaner
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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