Akash Kumar — AI Researcher
I am a B.Tech graduate from IIT Kanpur with strong expertise in algorithms, data structures, and machine learning. Currently, I work as a Machine Learning Engineer at Navi, where I am working on a Scala-based data ingestion library powering 2M+ loan approvals and supporting multiple internal products. Previously, I was an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon, improving price benchmarking models with meta-learning and contrastive loss, delivering 33% performance gains and a 40% MAPE reduction. At Swiggy, I developed an AI-driven itinerary planner and catalogue recommendation system using Gemini-pro, FAISS, and AWS Lambda. I am Expert on Codeforces (1800) and knight on leetcode(2000) with over 1500+ algorthmic problems solved. Interests - Competitive Programming, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and MLOps
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning Engineer with a focus on SaaS and E-commerce solutions.
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 1 yr 9 mos
Skills
- Machine Learning
- Data Engineering
- Data Science
- Frontend Development
Career Highlights
- Expert in algorithms and data structures.
- Achieved 33% performance gains at Amazon.
- Developed AI systems impacting 2M+ loan approvals.
Work Experience
Navi
Machine Learning Engineer (9 mos)
Swiggy
Data scientist Intern (2 mos)
Amazon
Applied Scientist Intern (2 mos)
Amazon ML Summer School (3 mos)
Kapitalwise Inc.
Software Engineer Intern (3 mos)
HeyCoach
Software Engineer Intern (3 mos)
Befikra Community
Data Science Intern (1 mo)
PediaGeek
Full stack developer intern (2 mos)
Counselling Service, IIT Kanpur
Academic Mentor (7 mos)
Student Guide (7 mos)
Education
Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
at FIITJEE
at Akshara School Kakinada
