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Hi. My name is Ankit.
Developer Relations Specialist at Rockset

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About Me

Hi, my name is Ankit Khare. I am a Developer Relations Leader, creative content creator, and AI enthusiast. I am currently leading Developer Relations at Rockset.

I specialize in creating and executing comprehensive DevRel programs, aligning DevRel strategy with GTM motions, and enhancing developer experiences through cross-functional collaboration with sales, marketing, product, and engineering teams. My work includes influencing product roadmaps, collaborating with AI influencers to leverage their communities, producing engaging developer content, and managing diverse creative content teams. I also have expertise in revamping documentation and social media channels, creating API tutorials and technical articles, developing social media strategies, building workshops, streamlining email marketing, managing SEO experts, and organizing impactful developer-centric, no-fluff engineering and science-focused community events.

If you would like to know more about me or if you're just feeling social, feel free to reach out – I appreciate socializing and human connection. I believe that before anything else, we are all human beings. I value exchanging ideas, listening to people's stories, and learning from their life experiences.

Resume

Subjects covered

Neural Networks

Computer Vision

Image Captioning

AI-assisted Path Planning

Data Modelling

Software Engineering

and others..

Education

I graduated with a Master's degree in Computer Science from UT-Arlington. During my time in the program, I focused on understanding the principles behind machine learning and explored how deep learning enables computers to process visual, auditory, and linguistic data. Some of my happiest memories from my graduate days include engaging in conversations with my supervising professor, Dr. Huber, and his company during our conference presentations, as well as working under his supervision to publish my research on image captioning using deep neural networks and path planning using deep reinforcement learning.

The University of Texas at Arlington

Arlington, Texas

Master of Science - AI & Intelligent Agents

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2016 - 2019

Courses

  • Neural Networks
  • Statistics
  • Computer Vision
  • Directed studies - Image Captioning architectures
  • Data Modeling

Lovely Professional University

Punjab, India

B.Tech (Hons.) Computer Science

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2010-2014

Courses

  • Software design and testing
  • Java
  • C++
  • Autocad
  • Algorithms

Experience

Feb. 2023

From

Developer Experience Lead

Sep. 2023

To

Twelve Labs is building powerful video understanding technology. Their multimodal AI helps businesses and developers deliver contextual search, generate summaries, classify content, and much more. The central theme is to help humans understand videos better and faster. Check out some of the API tutorials I wrote for them; each tutorial comes with a web app built to demonstrate how the APIs could be used: Twelve Labs API Tutorials

Oct 2023

From

Developer Relations Specialist

Present

To

Rockset indexes your vector, text, geospatial, and JSON data for the most efficient hybrid search and real-time analytics at any scale. I'm shaping the developer relations function at Rockset, focusing primarily on establishing Rockset as the go-to retrieval data system for GenAI app builders and a speed layer for real-time search and analytics developers. Check out this playlist of short videos I produced Short clips and movies produced in-house at Rockset.

May 2020

From

Head of Content & DevRel

Jan. 2023

To

Abacus.AI is an AI-assisted data science and end-to-end MLOps platform that enables real-time machine learning and deep learning at scale for common enterprise use cases. I have experienced the full spectrum of DevRel, from managing the documentation center, building communities on Slack and Eventbrite, running monthly coding workshops, to conducting customer demos and writing blogs/tutorials. Check out their documentation center that I used to manage: https://abacus.ai/help/useCases

2018

From

Graduate Researcher

2019

To

My first DevRel experience was at the Learning and Adaptive Robotics lab at UT-Arlington, where I developed an innovative deep-learning encoder-decoder system for image captioning. This resulted in human-like captions that outperformed existing models by 3.7%. My work was presented at BMVC 2019 and received a Best Student Paper Honorable Mention. Additionally, I created two popular YouTube videos on using computer vision for automated parking systems, which led to numerous production requests and appreciation emails for sharing my code and ideas.

Some Projects

The Secret Sauce - Vodcast with AK

Season 1 - Developer Relations
  • Join me as we dive into the fascinating journeys and unique 'Secret Sauces' of remarkable individuals, highlighting everything from their professional triumphs to their everyday acts of kindness.
  • Season 1 spotlights Developer Relations where I dive deep with DevRel experts and rising stars, sharing insights and laughters, while unlocking strategies for success.
Episode List

Easy Street Parking using Computer Vision

A prototype for computer vision-based parking management system

This was a project that I did while I was an RA at UT-Arlington's LEARN lab.

MASK RCNN + IoU (intersection over union) + Twilio API = Awesome AI-assisted Parking Management System.
Watch Full Tutorial Languages, libraries and tools used

  • Python
  • Jupyter Notebook
  • Fastai

Car Parking Status Detection using AI

Identifying empty parking spaces in a Car Parking using camera at Lamp post view

For my computer vision class project, each student was required to work independently and apply what we learned in class to develop something unique. I created a system that classifies parking spaces as occupied or vacant for all the spaces marked within the frame. This system is particularly useful in scenarios where a camera is placed on a lamp post to monitor the number of available parking spaces. The system utilizes a combination of techniques: the Laplacian operator for edge detection, a HAAR classifier for object recognition, and motion tracking to distinguish between parked and vacant spaces.

Code - https://github.com/ankit1khare/ComputerVision

Languages, libraries and tools used
  • Python
  • Pytorch
  • Fastai
  • OpenCV

Deep Segment

Image Segmentation using Deep Learning

A colleague from my lab at UT-Arlington was working on a project where he wanted his robot to navigate the surface of the land without colliding with nearby cones and dust piles. I helped him by training an image segmentation model using Google's DeepLabV3+ architecture for image segmentation.
Github link - https://github.com/ankit1khare/DeepSegment

Languages, libraries and tools used
  • Tensorflow
  • Python