Hello there

I'm Ankush Tale

Data Developer Deep Learning Practitioner Product Enthusiast

About Me


I am a people person and a polymath with four years of experience working in FinTech industry as a Software Engineer, Data Engineer and ML practicioner. At Arizona State University, I work with Dr. Beckett Sterner in Natural Language Processing to analyze contextual evolution in the field of epistemology.

Highlights


3x Hackathon wins

Won three consequtive Barclays International Hackathons in 2019, 2018 H1 and 2018 H2 with topics in Deep Learning, Computer Vision and Analytics

Google Student Ambassador

Acted as a liasion between Google and University during 2013-14. The role included popularising products, scholarships and opportunities at Google

Guinness World Record Holder

Conceptualized and led Guinness World Record event in category "Most People solving Rubik's Cube". Taught a customized cubing technique to >3000 people in age group of 7-74, sighted and visually challenged

Work Experience

In chronological order


Graduate Research Assistant

Sterner Lab, School of Life Sciences@ASU
Language Processing for 500k research papers to analyze contextual evolution in epistemology

SDE Intern

Seller Central, amazon.com
Developed a messaging service to distribute notifications for automated testing of a new global program in Seller Central

Software Engineer

Developer Experience Insights, CTO's Office
Designed, developed and maintained custom ingestion scripts for loading product deployment metadata for all teams in Barclays

  • Optimized Bitbucket ingestion processing time by 25%
  • Flag-bearer for adoption of GraphQL as Data Access Layer

Data Engineer

Corporate Banking
Developed data pipelines for Europe Corporate Banking Expansion of Barclays

  • Designed, deployed and managed data transformation pipelines and warehousing applications for massive amounts of data
  • Delivered 7 ETL pipelines in 6 months; won best performer award in department

Graduate Analyst

Tax Technologies
Developed Corporate Group Tax Relief Tool where subsidiaries in Barclays surrendered their losses to other subsidiaries’ profit thus reducing the total payable tax for the Corporation as a whole. Developed in C# with MVC architecture

Intern

Global Finance Technology Services
Debugged legacy bookkeeping application inherited from Lehman Brothers in order to make it operational again and suggesting end-to-end migration plans for all accounts to the strategic system.

Achievements


  • Guinness World Record: "Most People solving Rubik's Cube", conceptualized and lead the event.
  • Curated a customized cubing technique, taught to >3000 people from age 8 to 74, sighted and visually challenged
  • Worked as Google Student Ambassador and founder of Google Student Club, COEP
  • Selected as one of 300 representatives at 19th World Business Dialogue, Cologne, Germany
  • Speaker at PyData Pune Conference on "Recommender Systems".