Ashish Uppala

Technology & Design
Chicago, Illinois

Hi, I'm Ashish.

I love technology, design, and systems, and spend most of my time these days solving important problems around scientific progress.

I’ve worn multiple hats, initially as a research fellow at the National Cancer Institute and later in engineering and product across fintech, travel, cybersecurity, insurance, and scientific publishing.

I joined scite.ai as the first engineering hire in 2020 and later served as the CTO to improve how people discover, evaluate, and do better research.

Writing

2024

Four Years of scite

Reflections on my first real startup journey.

I wrote this on my last day at scite to organize a bunch of stories I've collected in this time.

2023

Slow Travel in France

Photos and stories from 5 weeks in France.

With love from Paris, Lyon, and Annecy.

2020

Federated Learning

Reflections from NeurIPS and related readings

I was particularly fascinated by privacy preserving technologies, and reflected on innovations around federated learning during my trip to NeurIPS in Vancouver.

2019

Software That Can Paint

Early generative art

I've always loved art and photography; this essay is a consolidation of some of my notes on varieties of generative art from a number of international artists.

Suggestions

Reading

Bookshelf

Books I enjoy(ed).

Publications

Work Experience

2020-2024

scite.ai

CTO (2023) - Remote Senior Software Engineer

First engineering hire. Designed and built ingestion system to process millions of full text articles. Develop and maintain relationships with publishers, run product studies, craft new business partnerships, and engineer pipelines and products.

2019-2020

Upside Business Travel

Full Stack Software Engineer - Washington, D.C.

Software engineering for a corporate travel platform; mostly in React, NodeJS, Postgres, Golang.

2017-Ongoing

Consulting

Engineering and Design - Remote

I consult with various early stage startups or local companies and design and build software for them -- from simple landing pages to full-stack applications and anything in between.

2017-2019

Capital One

Software Engineer - McLean, VA

Software engineering for a new B2B Commercial Payments Platform; mostly in Java, Angular, React, Postgres.

2015-2016

National Cancer Institute

CRTA Fellow - Bethesda, MD

Clinical trials and mouse models for liver cancer (no more!).

Contact

LinkedIn
@ashishuppala