Akshay J. — Senior Software Engineer

Canadian permanent resident!! 7 years of engineering excellence and delivering quantifiable results! Interested in Canadian roles and Us focused software, ML and data engineering roles. Started work as a Senior Machine learning engineer at Capital One in Feb 2025 As a Senior Software Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software, I worked on Golang-based REST APIs and Angular web applications for smart infrastructure. I also developed machine learning models for patient rooms using Python and advanced techniques, creating a semantic enrichment engine that enhances building information. Have enhanced the Building x platform by building experience app which is an advanced UI I have a Master's degree in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and I am pursuing a MicroMasters in Artificial Intelligence from Columbia University and a Data Scientist Nanodegree from Udacity. I am passionate about web3 and cryptocurrency development, and I have contributed to open source projects on GitHub, such as dogehouse, using ReactJs, storybook, and JavaScript. I have also won the first prize in the Capital One hackathon for data insights using machine learning models and anomaly detection. I have over six years of experience delivering scalable code for key projects in the fintech sector, using languages such as Python, Java, Scala, and JavaScript, and frameworks and libraries such as Numpy, Pandas, Spring Boot, AngularJs, React Js, NodeJs, and Sklearn. I have extensive knowledge and hands-on experience working with data, big data stack, cloud infrastructure, and tools, such as PostgresSql, AWS RDS, MongoDb, Snowflake, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, MapReduce, Hive, Yarn, Zookeeper, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, EMR, EC2, Cloudwatch, S3, IAM, Splunk, Jenkins, Git, and Jira. I am open to new roles and opportunities as a Software or Machine Learning Engineer, and I am eager to learn more and apply my skills and knowledge to solve challenging problems. You can reach out to me at akshay365@icloud.com, and request my latest resume.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Smart Infrastructure software engineer with expertise in machine learning and cloud technologies.

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Experience: 8 yrs 8 mos

Skills

Machine Learning
Software Development

Career Highlights

7 years of engineering excellence in software and ML.
First prize winner in Capital One hackathon.
Contributed to open source projects on GitHub.

Work Experience

Capital One

Senior Software Engineer (1 yr 5 mos)

Senior Software Engineer (1 yr)

Software Engineer (2 yrs 9 mos)

Siemens Digital Industries Software

Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 5 mos)

IAENG

Member (3 yrs)

ACM, Association for Computing Machinery

Member (3 yrs)

GitHub

Open Source Developer (3 yrs 10 mos)

HackerOne

Independent Security Researcher (1 yr 1 mo)

International Motor Group

Software Engineer Intern (3 mos)

Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Kothrud, Pune

Undergraduate Research Assistant (1 yr)

Aquatech International

Intern (1 mo)

Education

MicroMasters at Columbia University

Master's degree at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Nanodegree at Udacity

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at Maharashtra Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Savitribai Phule Pune University

Secondary School Certificate at Loyola High School & Junior College Pune

Middle school at J. H. Ambani Saraswati Vidymandir School

at Startup School Online

Akshay J.

Senior Software Engineer

Chicago, Illinois, United States8 yrs 8 mos experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

7 years of engineering excellence in software and ML.
First prize winner in Capital One hackathon.
Contributed to open source projects on GitHub.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Smart Infrastructure software engineer with expertise in machine learning and cloud technologies.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningSoftware Development

Other Skills

Python (Programming Language)Data ArchitectsLangChainGolangAngularJSLarge Language Models (LLM)Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)GitHubDatabricksMLopsPythonAmazon Web Services (AWS)REST APIsJavaScriptReactJs

About

Experience

8 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Capital one

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Hybrid

🔹 Lead the development and deployment of machine learning models to optimize customer experiences and data-driven decision-making in the financial sector.
🔹 Leverage Databricks notebooks and iceberg data lakes to build solutions.
🔹 Design and implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) models to enhance information retrieval and integration within AI systems.
🔹 Work with Langchain and Langflow to streamline AI-driven workflows and automation, improving the efficiency and quality of customer interactions.
🔹 Drive MLops initiatives, ensuring seamless deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of production-level machine learning models using SageMaker
🔹 Build and refine AI agents to automate decision-making processes and enhance operational efficiency across multiple business functions.
🔹 Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate cutting-edge technologies, providing scalable solutions that align with Capital One’s strategic goals.
🔹 Contribute to building innovative AI-driven solutions that maintain Capital One’s leadership in the fintech space.

Python (Programming Language)Data ArchitectsLangChainGolangAngularJSLarge Language Models (LLM)+4

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr

Developed rest apis in golang for point of sale shop with rewards using Golang and AWS lambdas.
The API allowed for $15M in rewards redemption at REI in the first two months alone. It is estimated that $300M in rewards redemption with $15M in yearly recurring revenue will be achieved once onboarded to other partners.

Software DevelopmentGolangAmazon Web Services (AWS)

Software Engineer

Nov 2018 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Data driven Engineering focus.
Experience deploying Data Pipelines, Apache Airflow, Rest API, Java, Spring Boot, Python.
Have developed production Grade external Apis and also used Spark to consume data from Apis.
Experience using Docker and creating Dashboards and Web interfaces using React Js. Experience in production deployments for the past 2 years.
Reduced Operations costs by 35% by creating Transient EMRS and EC2 instances using custom lambda, sns and s3 triggers.
Developed new APIs using Spring Boot and Java to help bring features to a new platform.
Big Data Engineering skills using Spark, Scala and designing a scalable data aggregation service which handles bulk upto 1 million records. Wrote cryptographic algorithms to mask PCI and Npi data.

Siemens digital industries software

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Chicago, Illinois, United States · Hybrid

🔹 Designed and developed Golang-based REST APIs and Angular web applications for smart buildings.
🔹 Worked with DynamoDB, Golang, Angular, and Node.js.
🔹 Developed machine learning models for patient rooms using Python and advanced techniques, creating a semantic enrichment engine to enhance building data.
🔹 Built trends API and point activation APIs for multiple users.
🔹 Designed dashboards for the Sustainability Manager, improving load times by 15%.
🔹 Developed site connectors page for the Sustainability Manager and REST APIs to serve the core functionality of the connection framework for IoT devices in real-time, handling high throughput.
🔹 Focused on testing best practices and developed robust test suite using playwright, karma, jest, integration testing and gomocks for unit testing Rest Apis.
https://www.siemens.com/global/en/company/topic-areas/smart-infrastructure.html

GolangPythonMachine LearningAngularJSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Data Architects+3

Iaeng

Member

Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs

Acm, association for computing machinery

Member

Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs

Github

Open Source Developer

Mar 2021 – Jan 2025 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Remote

Contributed to dogehouse and submitted screens using ReactJs, storybook and JavaScript. Top 25 contributor to this repo.

Hackerone

Independent Security Researcher

Sep 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Greater Los Angeles Area

International motor group

Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2017 – Dec 2017 · 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

Working on Aws platform and developing Website along with database management.

Maharashtra institute of technology, kothrud, pune

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Jun 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr · Pune Area, India

Undergraduate Capstone Project Research Assistant under the guidance of Prof. Sambhaji Sarode
The project used concepts of image processing and artificial intelligence to measure the intent of the shopper to purchase a particular product. I was the project leader and lead programmer for this project which was executed in Matlab.
Published a research paper:
http://www.ierjournal.org/vol1iss10/Computer%20aided%20detection%20of%20Shoppers%20intent%20to%20purchase%20using%20facial%20expression.pdf