Ashish Uppala

Software Engineer & Product Designer
Chicago, Illinois

Hi, I'm Ashish

I’m an engineer and designer with over 10 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining technology products. I'm fascinated by design, systems, and applying my craft to improving scientific progress.

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

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

Technical

2022

Installing Latest nmap on Ubuntu

Using alien to make nmap RPM binaries available in Ubuntu

The debian build of nmap is often 1-2 years behind. If you're using Ubuntu (personally, or in Docker), here's how you can use alien to convert and install the latest RPM package.

Writing

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.

Publications

Work Experience

2020-Ongoing

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 software engineering all over the place.

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 torturing (no more!).

Contact

LinkedIn
@ashishuppala