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
Installing Latest nmap on Ubuntu
Using alien to make nmap RPM binaries available in UbuntuThe 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
Federated Learning
Reflections from NeurIPS and related readingsI was particularly fascinated by privacy preserving technologies, and reflected on innovations around federated learning during my trip to NeurIPS in Vancouver.
Software That Can Paint
Early generative artI'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
scite: A Smart Citation Index That Displays the Context of Citations and Classifies Their Intent Using Deep Learning
Quantitative Science StudiesWork Experience
scite.ai
CTO (2023) - RemoteFirst 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.
Upside Business Travel
Full Stack Software Engineer - Washington, D.C.Software engineering for a corporate travel platform; mostly in React, NodeJS, Postgres, Golang.
Consulting
Engineering and Design - RemoteI 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.
Capital One
Software Engineer - McLean, VASoftware engineering for a new B2B Commercial Payments Platform; mostly in Java, Angular, React, Postgres.
National Cancer Institute
CRTA Fellow - Bethesda, MDClinical trials and mouse torturing (no more!).