Upender Kalwa
Senior Software Engineer at Bayer
Ankeny, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolUpender Kalwa is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building production-ready, cloud-native systems that blend Generative AI, full‑stack engineering, and industrial automation. He has designed and deployed distributed LLM-powered applications using LangChain/LangGraph and RAG, built high-performance Python/FastAPI microservices, and shipped responsive React/Svelte frontends. His background in computer vision and embedded systems is unusual for an AI-focused engineer—he’s written firmware and industrial control code that interfaces with PLCs, motor drives, and cameras to run real-time vision-based quality checks. A PhD-trained researcher who moved seamlessly from academic image-processing and sensor systems to enterprise software at Bayer, he excels at turning research-grade algorithms into resilient, scalable products. Based in Ankeny, Iowa, he enjoys pushing the boundary between applied automation and GenAI to deliver measurable operational improvements.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, 3.84, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, 3.84 at Iowa State UniversityJawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Github Skills (105)
opencv10
python10
image-processing10
deep-learning10
visual-studio10
hook10
editor10
computer-vision10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
google-scholar10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ukalwa/melanoma-detection
Mar 2015 - Mar 2019
An android application to categorize skin lesions as benign or melanoma based on ABCD features.
Contributions:51 commits, 4 pushes in 4 years
androidabcdandroid-applicationmelanomalesions
ukalwa/scholarly
May 2020 - Jun 2022
A Node.js module to fetch and parse academic articles from google scholar
Contributions:118 commits, 159 PRs, 186 pushes in 2 years 1 month
node-jsjavascriptgoogle-scholarnodejsparser
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