nezubn

An Engineer's Musings

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Hi, I am Ankit aka nezubn (ipa nezubn /nɛzʌb/ — no meaning, i made it up) on the internet.
an engineer, a polymath

I am an ML engineer, a polymath, and a writer. I love to write about my experiences and share my knowledge with others. I also enjoy exploring engineering concepts and sharing my insights with others.

Currently, my brain is fixated with ML systems, databases, distributed systems and iOS/macOS development. I try to keep a tab on what I am reading, be it a book bookshelf or a paper papershelf

I live in emacs (my choice of code editor and my interface to git), my terminal and zed. These 3 keep revolving around wherever I go. Xcode keeps coming in between every once in a while.

You can reach out to me at: email.

I write mostly about engineering, systems, machine learning and apple platform development in the posts section, and about my encounter with technology in my bi-weekly or monthly musings.

Publications

ORC ID

  • Initial Observations from Field Testing of a Digital Participatory Tool to Improve Water Security in Rural India.
    • DOI: 10.1145/3700794.3700816
    • CONTRIBUTORS: Shivani A Mehta; Ankit Kumar; Aila Dutt; Ajay Tannirkulam; Aman Verma; Anamitra Singha; Ananda Sreenidhi et al.

Work Experience

As a Founding Engineer at CoRE Stack

  • Remote sensing GIS based layers
  • Offline first Commons Connect application which lets you map resources at tehsil level for a district in India
  • DPR document for MGNREGA work demands
  • Backend architecture to compute different layers, computer layers on the fly, CRUD applications, calculate Land use land cover, vegetation index in places throughout India using predictive ML models

As a Software Engineer at Gramvaani

  • Trained and Deployed an FAQ based QnA system using BERT
  • Created a Knowledge Graph based system to traverse farmer’s query and QnA over it on IVR systems
  • Worked on data collection processes and streamlined pipelines to collect data from the field across various districts in India
  • Currently, working on Natural Resource Management solution for detecting change in water capacity, Land use land cover, vegetation index in places throughout India using ML predictive models
  • LLM based chatbot to chat with data collected in various surveys and verticals such as KAB and PAJ where KAB is about sexual health and wellness and PAJ is about worker’s rights

Senior Research Associate at Mirrorsize

  • Trained models for semantic segmentation of a person out of an image
  • Worked in keypoint detection and person detection from an image
  • Use deformation methods to deform the 3D human body to it’s shape and calculate measurements

I maintain links to my favorite articles / essays, my favorite people and my social accounts.

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