Ankush Kanungo

About Ankush Kanungo

I’m a senior backend engineer with over 15 years of experience designing and scaling backend systems that drive real business impact. I’ve built cloud-native, multi-tenant applications using Java, Python, and open-source tools, always with an eye on performance, scalability, and secure architecture.Key Achievements:• Improved email keyword extraction by 20% using LDA and TF-IDF models at Proofpoint• Delivered first-ever ML-powered customer-facing services• Integrated NLP models for topic modeling and keyword classification at scale• Led Proofpoint’s first external integration (with Okta), showcased at Sales KickoffI’m now looking for my next opportunity to lead, mentor, and help build something meaningful — with both precision and purpose.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Proofpoint

   Jul 2018 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Researched various topic models, evaluated, and selected Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for categorizing large email datasets into distinct topics and Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) for extracting frequent keywords, enhancing contextual insights.• Designed and developed a background task that integrates with the Microsoft Graph API to retrieve customer emails and publish them to an SNS topic for seamless downstream processing.• Designed and developed REST APIs to support model inference for LDA and TF-IDF models, enabling smooth integration with upstream systems and enhancing data-driven decision-making.• Implemented the first-ever integration between Proofpoint and Okta, enabling adaptive security policies and control.• Integrated AWS SaaS listing on the AWS Marketplace, enabling Proofpoint to seamlessly deliver its SMB security product to AWS customers and expand market reach.

Education

• PVG's College of Engineering and Technology, University of Pune

  Bachelor of Engineering(BE), Information Technology

  2002 — 2006

• San José State University

  Master of Science(MS), Software Engineering

  2010 — 2011

• Wesleyan English Medium Higher Secondary School, Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh

  Maths, Science

  2000 — 2002

• San José State University

  Master of Science(MS), Software Engineering

  2008 — 2009

Skills

• Maven
• Mongodb
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Netbeans
• Spring Framework
• Core Java
• Apache
• Jsp
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Unix
• Activemq
• Struts
• Tomcat
• Rabbitmq
• Postgresql
• Jsf
• Voldemort
• Junit
• Jboss Application Server
• Html
• Hadoop
• Windows
• Restful Webservices
• Linux
• Eclipse
• Hbase
• Jms
• Vcloud
• Amazon Ec2
• Vcloud Director
• Gradle
• Selenium
• Javascript
• Node.js
• Mysql
• Xml
• Ant