Ankur Gupta

I'm a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager for AI Infrastructure at LinkedIn, with 15 years across machine learning infrastructure, distributed systems, and reliability engineering. My work spans GPU-accelerated inference and model deployment pipelines, data-center build-outs, and a first-of-its-kind hardware forecasting control plane that decides how much compute a billion-user platform needs before it needs it, building on earlier cloud platform and enterprise modernization work at Walmart. I'm an IEEE Senior Member with 101 verified peer reviews recorded on Web of Science across 25 international conferences and journals, and I already serve as a reviewer for Elsevier's Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Springer's Discover Computing. I'm also a published IEEE author (2026) on production AI inference and site reliability. I'll be speaking at CloudX 2026 in Santa Clara this September on how to forecast hardware capacity at billion-user scale, the same problem I work on every day.