Akhil Vaid
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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SeniorAkhil Vaid is a Software Engineer with eight years of experience building full-stack, machine learning, and distributed systems across startups and tech giants in San Francisco. He has shipped production ML and CV solutions at scale—from optimizing Just Walk Out analytics at AWS to architecting exabyte-scale streaming systems at Cohesity and agentic workflows at Apple. Akhil combines hands-on cross-platform app development (Flutter), backend services (Kafka, Spark, Django), and model engineering (YOLOv8, transformers) to solve real-world problems in healthcare, fintech, and safety analytics. He has a track record of reducing operational overhead through pragmatic automation and tooling, such as CloudWatch/Python scripts adopted across teams. Comfortable in both early-stage startups and large organizations, he mentors engineers while guiding technical vision for scalable, resilient systems. Outside product work he pursues practical research—publishing and integrating novel CV approaches from academic projects into deployable systems.
8 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
11reputation
5kreached
2answers
8questions
Github Skills (22)
recursion6
nodejs6
android6
android-layout6
algorithm6
javascript6
classifiers4
freeradius4
django3
rest3
openwisp3
networking2
trading2
python2
rest-api2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
abhin2149/Userlocationmaps
Jan 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 6 months
codesniper99/Health-Addict
Mar 2019 - Sep 2023
This was a web application which was built for reducing smoking addiction in individuals. It uses Django REST framework and had an Android Application as well which fetched API from our website. Techniques of positive reinforcement and Classifiers for at risk individuals were used.
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
android-applicationclassifiersdjango-rest-frameworkrest
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