Ayush Petwal
ML Infra · Distributed Systems · Onchain/Jaipur, India
I'm an engineer who likes problems that sit between the layers — distributed systems, ML infrastructure, and onchain protocols. Right now I'm an AI Infrastructure Engineer at UpValue and an AI & Blockchain intern at Kritu Capital, building ML systems and real-estate tokenization infra. On the side I contribute to Kubeflow, where I'm wiring OpenTelemetry tracing into the SDK so ML platform teams can finally see what their jobs are doing.
I've spent the last few years shipping across all three layers — 13+ hackathons and 3 wins (including ETH Global), 300+ DSA problems, and a stubborn habit of over-engineering things until they're elegant. When I'm not building, I'm usually reading about systems design or chasing the next interesting problem. Currently studying Computer & Communication Engineering at LNMIIT.
Open Source Contributor — SDK & Spark Operator
Feb 2026 — PresentContributing to the Kubernetes-native ML toolkit across the Python SDK and the Spark Operator.
- Designed and prototyped OpenTelemetry distributed tracing for the Kubeflow SDK — surfacing end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs across Python SDK calls and Kubernetes worker pods, closing a long-standing observability gap for ML platform teams.
- Shipped 5 PRs across the SDK and Spark Operator: a SparkCluster CRD for Spark Standalone on K8s, MultiKueue integration, ModelRegistry extensions, Trainer docs, and a stability fix.
AI Infrastructure Engineer
Feb 2026 — PresentBuilding ML infrastructure and a recommerce system purpose-built for ML hardware.
- Mapping aging ML hardware to specific workflows with automated resale-value calculation.
- Targeting large GPU fleets in data centers, aiming to lift ML workflow efficiency by ~50%.
AI & Blockchain Intern
Jan 2026 — PresentBuilding a real-estate tokenization and mortgage solution for client deployment.
- Spanning tokenization, mortgage origination, and AI-driven valuation across MERN, Hyperledger Fabric, and FastAPI.
- Targeting the US fractional real-estate ownership market (~$4.6B) — an emerging onchain investment driver.
Backend Intern
May 2025 — Aug 2025Built a stock-prediction system with algorithmic trading for risk management and portfolio allocation.
- Implemented Redis caching in a Unix environment, cutting API response times by 60% through efficient memory management.