Akash Gaonkar
Software & ML Researcher - Purdue Data Mine
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolAkash Gaonkar is a Software and ML researcher with 11 years of engineering experience, currently building prompt-driven notebooks, CLIs, and clinical prognostic pipelines in collaboration with Johnson & Johnson through Purdue Data Mine. He blends deep learning research and practical engineering—previous work includes drone-based computer vision (YOLO, Faster R-CNN) and real-time OpenCV pipelines, plus quant-focused projects in online learning and NLP at Boiler Quant. Comfortable across full-stack systems, backend tooling, and LLM/GenAI integrations, he has a startup mindset and a track record of shipping production-ready models and internal tools. Based in the Greater Chicago area, he pairs financial-mathematics curiosity with hands-on ML engineering, often bridging research prototypes to deployable pipelines. An early Johns Hopkins engineering program alumnus, he brings interdisciplinary rigor and a focus on applied AI in regulated domains.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, STEM, 11th-12th, High School Diploma, STEM, 11th-12th at Stevenson High School, Lincolnshire, ILJohns Hopkins UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityHigh School Diploma, 9th-10th, High School Diploma, 9th-10th at Millennium National School
English, Marathi, Hindi, Konkani, sanksrit, Spanish
Github Skills (60)
textmate9
heterogeneous8
python8
language-server8
pylance8
linter8
language-server-protocol7
verification7
abstraction7
code-analysis7
syntax-highlighting7
system-on-chip5
modeling5
static-typing5
tla5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Anonymous-Stranger/ILAng
Nov 2020 - Sep 2022
A Modeling and Verification Platform for SoCs using ILAs
Contributions:38 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 10 months
modelingtlaverification
Anonymous-Stranger/DesignOfThisSite
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:26 PRs, 34 pushes, 11 branches in 26 days
cssdecisionsdesigndesign-system
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