Ankush Agarwal

Ankush Agarwal is an experienced technology professional who has made significant contributions in the tech industry. Currently driving infrastructure for the Libra Blockchain Project at Facebook, he plays a crucial role in setting team direction, project impact, product quality, and engineering efficiency. With a background in Distributed Systems, Machine Learning Infra, High Performance Backend Infrastructure, Relational Database Systems, Transaction Processing, and Performance, Ankush brings a wealth of domain expertise to his work.

Before his current role, Ankush was actively involved in the Open Source Kubeflow Project at Google, where he was a maintainer and author. Kubeflow, Google's project to open source parts of its internal ML platform on Kubernetes, benefited from Ankush's expertise in Distributed Tensorflow Model Training, Tensorflow Model Serving, and JupyterHub platform development. Additionally, Ankush has experience working on the Google Cloud SQL PostgreSQL product, a fully-managed database service on Google Cloud Platform.

Ankush Agarwal's educational background is impressive, having completed a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He also pursued coursework in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Stanford University and engaged in research in Computer Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Throughout his career, Ankush has held key roles in various organizations. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Architect at Co. Prior to his current position at Facebook, he served as a Staff Software Engineer at the company. His previous experiences include roles at Google, Rubrik, Inc., Addepar, and Rocket Fuel Inc., where he made valuable contributions in software engineering and machine learning platform development.