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About Me
Hello! I'm Akshay, a passionate student at Sathyabama University. I enjoy creating impactful products and exploring new technologies. My goal is to blend creativity and technical skills to deliver innovative solutions that make a difference.
When I'm not coding, you'll find me brainstorming ideas, learning new skills, or working on exciting personal projects. Let'm connect and collaborate on something amazing!
Work Experience
Thursday (CMU Startup)
- Contribute to the Thursday codebase on a voluntary basis (no employment or contractual relationship).
- Architected and shipped Thursday Thrift’s core AI recommendation engine a 3-level cascading retrieval algorithm over 512-dimensional styleVector embeddings with pgvector cosine similarity, updating user taste profiles in real time from weighted behavioral signals (swipes, carts, purchases) to serve a personalized 30-item discovery feed.
- Owned production AWS infrastructure end to end: designed and deployed ECS services, Application Load Balancer, CodePipeline/CodeBuild CI/CD, task definitions and IAM across isolated dev and prod environments and also led consolidation of two backends (Python seller service, NestJS mobile API) into a single unified NestJS architecture, completing 75% of the migration independently.
Fask AI
- Engineering backend reliability for Myst, an AI operations platform for long-running enterprise agents shipped a CloudWatch EMF metrics and observability layer across ECS services and also, built a internal dashboard to track all product (cost, metrics, usage) in a single place.
- Joined Fask AI as a Software Engineering Intern in August 2025.
- Started a Work Trial Period as a Software Engineering Intern at Fask AI in July 2025.
- Spearheaded an end-to-end AI video ads pipeline using Google Veo 3 and Meta/Google Ads APIs to generate videos from marketer prompts and auto-publish them to paid channels, cutting manual ad production and launch time from hours to minutes and enabling continuous experimentation at scale.
Education
Sathyabama Institute of Science And Technology
SIES Colege Of Arts, Science And Commerce
Skills
Check out my latest work
I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple websites to complex web applications. Here are a few of my favorites.
I like building things
During my time in university, I attended 4+ hackathons. hosted across Chennai and other cities in India. These events brought together passionate and creative minds who built powerful solutions in just 2–3 days. Being part of this fast-paced environment taught me the value of teamwork, rapid problem-solving, and building with purpose under pressure.
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Smart India Hackathon 2024
Chennai, India
This project for Smart India Hackathon 2024 uses AI to revolutionize electricity demand forecasting with accurate predictions and real-time optimizations.We made it to the waiting list teams of SIH Finals 2024 - H
Hack the Chit
Chennai , India
We developed a real-time bus tracking system for Sathyabama University. Users can see where each bus is, how full it is, and access special features tailored for disabled individuals. This project won 1st place in the hackathon. - H
Home Health Hackathon
Chennai, India
Built a smart healthcare assistant for elderly individuals with features like automatic medicine refill tracking, a voice-controlled medicine reminder, and integrated video calling for children to stay connected with their parents. - T
TechnoSummit Hackathon
Chennai, India
Recreated our Smart India Hackathon project on electricity demand forecasting using AI for real-time grid optimization. We secured 2nd place among competitive teams.
I Just Did Because I Was Bored
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Luminaries@CASE 2025: Multimodal Hate Speech, Target, Stance and Humor Detection using ALBERT and Classical Models
Bulgaria
Developed a multimodal hate, stance, and humor detection framework using ALBERT and ensemble-based classical models, achieving top-15 performance in the CASE 2025 shared task (published at ACL Bulgaria and ACL Anthology).
Get in Touch
Want to chat? Just shoot me a dm with a direct question on twitter and I'll respond whenever I can. I will ignore all soliciting.