About

Akshay Sharma is a highly motivated and product-focused engineer with a diverse range of experience as a software developer, open-source contributor, and product manager. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science with a Machine Learning track at Columbia University. Prior to this, he has worked at Rejoy Health, Goldman Sachs, and Adobe. Akshay has strong technical skills in C++, Flutter, React.JS, AWS Tech Stack, PyTorch, Kafka, Spark, and GraphQL. He is also a prolific writer and maintains an engineering blog at akshay326.github.io. He is actively seeking software developer roles starting from fall 2022. Currently, Akshay is working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is responsible for teaching Natural Language Processing at Columbia Business School. He has also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at Columbia University, where he was responsible for implementing architectural improvements, analyzing collected data, and optimizing code for maximum performance. He is currently working at SpeechLab, Columbia University, under the aegis of Dr. Julia Hirschberg, where he is developing multi-modal classification systems to identify radicalizing videos of extremist groups. In his previous role as a Machine Learning Engineer at Rejoy Health, Akshay collaborated with the Mobile App team to extend technical solutions, including custom application development, testing, and maintenance through package deployment for clients. He also implemented an internal technology strategy, defining metrics for user-facing operations, proposed application upgrades, and drove process automation. During his tenure, he devised a new microservices-based backend on AWS, using dockerized computer vision models and launched two major features in six months, resulting in a 30% MoM growth in user engagement. Akshay has a Dual Degree in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, and is expected to complete his Master of Science in Computer Science from Columbia University in December 2022. He has a strong background in AWS, ML, Software Engineering, Research Science, NLP, Spark, product management, Flutter, Javascript, Kafka, Pytorch, ReactJS, Computer Vision, test, Microservices, Mobile, and Backend. With 0.43 years of relevant experience, Akshay is a highly skilled and driven engineer with a passion for solving complex problems and delivering high-quality results.