Machine learning engineer — Vancouver, BC

Anant
Khanna

I build intelligent systems across the stack — from FPGA gates to neural networks to full-stack apps. Computer Engineering @ UBC, currently shipping ML at Agriprix.

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GitHub LinkedIn itsanantk@gmail.com terminal

FIG. A Order & pricing systems Software Engineer — Agriprix

01 / About

Every layer of the machine

I'm a Computer Engineering student at the University of British Columbia (Dean's List 2025) who likes working at every layer of the machine — Verilog on an FPGA one day, a transformer embedding pipeline the next.

Right now I'm a Machine Learning Engineer at Agriprix, building pricing intelligence and the data pipelines behind a B2B agricultural marketplace. On campus I lead the ML software team at UBC UAS, where our vision pipeline detects targets in real time from a drone moving at 50+ km/h, and I'm the lead developer of UBC Finds, a live lost-and-found map for campus.

Off the clock I build games — two of them placed top-5 in back-to-back game jams — and I've taught programming to 120+ kids as an instructor at Code Ninjas.

Currently — Software Engineer @ Agriprix · ML Lead @ UBC UAS

0 detection accuracy, UBC UAS vision pipeline
0 speedup, FPGA neural-net accelerator
0 students taught at Code Ninjas
0 top-5 game jam finishes

02 / Experience

Where I've worked

May 2026 — Present

Agriprix

Software Engineer

  • Rebuilt the hybrid intent router (deterministic rules + LLM classification) for an agent platform spanning 70+ tools; added per-call token/latency observability with automatic failover across 5 model providers
  • Implemented Stripe authorize-and-capture checkout with deterministic idempotency keys, an integer-cent commission pricing engine, and per-farm fulfillment state machines for multi-supplier orders
  • Led a platform security audit surfacing 67 vulnerabilities (5 critical) — patched mass-assignment/IDOR serializers, eliminated overselling races via row-level locking, shipped a 15-case Playwright E2E suite covering the supplier-to-buyer order journey
  • Built a WhatsApp AI assistant on the WhatsApp Business Cloud API, routing inbound webhooks into the agent layer so buyers and suppliers can transact directly over chat

Python · Django / DRF · PostgreSQL · Stripe · LLM · Playwright · WhatsApp API

Sept 2024 — Present

UBC UAS

ML Software Engineer Team Lead

  • Real-time autonomous object detection (YOLOv11) on embedded systems moving at 50+ km/h — 98% detection accuracy, +30% mAP
  • Metric-learning re-identification with Vision Transformer embeddings, invariant to lighting and orientation
  • TensorRT FP16 quantization: 50% less memory bandwidth within 0.5% of baseline precision

PyTorch · C++ · TensorRT · YOLOv11 · Embedded

Oct 2025 — Present

UBC Finds

Co-founder & Lead Developer

  • Built a campus utility finder map on React/Next.js and Supabase, architecting event-driven state synchronization over Supabase realtime channels that eliminates race conditions through atomic writes
  • Optimized report aggregation and live map rendering for low-latency updates as new utility reports stream in

React · Next.js · Supabase · Realtime

May 2025 — Aug 2025

Code Ninjas

Programming Instructor

  • Designed and delivered 15+ project-based C#/JavaScript curricula for 120+ students

C# · JavaScript · Teaching

03 / Projects

Things I've built

FIG. H Award — ProduHacks × Fetch.ai GitHub ↗

Wealth Council

Agentic investment platform: a multi-agent orchestration layer (Fetch.ai uAgents) computes portfolio risk while FinBERT runs sentiment analysis on live financial news, and Gemini synthesizes the final report — streamed to React in real time over SSE.

Python · FastAPI · React · Gemini · Fetch.ai

FIG. I GitHub ↗

GuardCam

Edge-to-cloud driver monitoring that catches micro-sleeps: a custom TCP WebSocket bridge streams video with minimal latency to a headless GPU server, where a 468-point face mesh computes Eye Aspect Ratio and fires sub-second haptic alerts.

Python · React Native · OpenCV · MediaPipe · Modal

FIG. J

FPGA Neural-Net Accelerator

A neural network inference engine in Verilog on a DE1-SoC, with a memory-mapped C++ driver on the ARM HPS under embedded Linux. 3,000 inferences/sec — a 300% speedup over ARM-only execution.

Verilog · FPGA · C++ · ARM · Embedded Linux

FIG. K GitHub ↗

AetherShell

An AI-powered PowerShell assistant: natural language in, safe shell commands out. Open source under MIT.

Python · LLM · PowerShell · Open Source

FIG. L

Campus Noise Map

IoT network of Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W nodes tracking real-time noise across UBC, with TensorFlow's YAMNet classifying the noise source — so students can find a quiet place to study.

Raspberry Pi · TensorFlow · IoT · NumPy

FIG. M 2× top-5, back-to-back jams

Cell Fusion & Blink

Two complete games shipped under game-jam time limits: Cell Fusion (puzzle-strategy, 5th of 81) and Blink (narrative platformer with a time-blink mechanic, 4th of 86).

Unity · C# · Game Jam · itch.io

More on GitHub ↗

04 / Skills

Toolbox

FIG. G Toolbox 32 tools · drag to spin

Hardware / RTL

Verilog · SystemVerilog · Intel Quartus · QuestaSim · Platform Designer · ARM SoCs

Languages

Python · C · C++ · C# · Java · JavaScript · TypeScript · SQL · RISC-V & ARM Assembly

Frameworks

Django / DRF · FastAPI · Celery · React · Next.js · PyTorch · TensorFlow · TensorRT · YOLO / Ultralytics

Tools & Cloud

Google Cloud Platform · Docker · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Supabase · Stripe · Playwright · Git · Linux

05 / Contact

Get in touch

Whether it's an opportunity, a collaboration, or you just want to talk FPGAs and neural nets — my inbox is always open. Or skip the formalities — open the terminal (bottom right, or below) and type sudo hire-anant.

Say hello

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