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.
These days, I oversee Engineering and Product for Portal Stargaze, an applied metascience toolkit for sourcing and understanding biotech innovation.
For my other blog around specific systems like science, see shishyko!
Writing
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.
Slow Travel in France
Photos and stories from 5 weeks in France.With love from Paris, Lyon, and Annecy.
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.
Suggestions
Bookshelf
Books I enjoy(ed).Publications
scite: A Smart Citation Index That Displays the Context of Citations and Classifies Their Intent Using Deep Learning
Quantitative Science StudiesWork Experience
Portal Stargaze
CTO - RemoteSet overall technical and product vision and about as hands on as I can get in all the things (designing, building, and launching our MVP, getting our data and technology infrastructure in place, making sense of our strategy, growing the team, etc.)
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 engineer pipelines and products.
Upside Business Travel
Full Stack Software Engineer - Washington, D.C.Software engineering for a corporate travel platform; mostly in React, NodeJS, Postgres, Golang.
Consulting - shishyko!
Engineering and Design - RemoteI've helped various early stage startups get off the ground, from local businesses that need a landing page to software-heavy products 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 models for liver cancer (no more!).