Akash Desarda
Data & AI Engineer
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolAkash Desarda is a Data & AI Engineer with 8 years’ experience designing cloud-native data platforms and production ML systems, currently driving data and AI initiatives at IBM from Mumbai. He has a strong track record at Kroll leading migrations to Databricks Lakehouse, authoring enterprise Python and development standards, and mentoring cross-functional teams to improve code quality and data accessibility. Earlier roles at Quantiphi demonstrate deep MLOps expertise—building reproducible Kubeflow pipelines, containerized microservices, and data versioning that cut production cycle time and tagging effort significantly. Akash blends software engineering best practices with pragmatic architecture choices, and regularly shares technical insights on his blog importidea.dev. Less obvious is his focus on governance and universal data-sharing standards, which has helped turn complex, siloed data into reusable, compliant assets.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Master Program Data science Machine Learning, Data Science Master Program Data science Machine Learning at GreyAtom School of Data ScienceBachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at St. Francis Institute Of Technology
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Github Skills (130)
notebook10
python10
model-management10
deep-learning10
mlflow10
ai10
transformer10
nlp10
dvc10
natural-language-processing10
pytorch10
lifecycle10
incremental-learning10
machine-learning10
memory-consumption10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Akashdesarda/Object-Detection-using-SSD
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
This is keras implemenration of SSD for Object Detection, optimized to be run on local system.
Contributions:1 release, 34 commits, 3 PRs in 1 month
pythoncomputer-visionobject-detectionssdoptimized
Akashdesarda/stock-analysis
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 40 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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