Akshay B
Principal Associate Software Engineer
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay B is a Principal Associate Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building large-scale distributed data collection and processing systems, currently at Capital One in Toronto. He has a strong track record across fintech and e‑commerce—designing distributed web crawlers and MapReduce pipelines during academic research and productionizing ML-driven data platforms at Wayfair and Wealthsimple. Skilled in Python, Java, PySpark, FastAPI, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and AWS, he focuses on high-performance ETL, parallel processing and applying ML to extract business signals from noisy data. Notably, he accelerated model training by 18x through PySpark/MMLSpark optimization and has built tooling that turns natural-language specifications into runnable test code. He combines research-driven methods from his Northeastern MS work with pragmatic production experience, and is eager to further specialize in distributed and cloud-native systems.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 3.68 / 4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, GPA: 3.68 / 4.0 at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityData Streaming Nanodegree, Data Streaming Nanodegree at UdacityMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Northeastern University
Kannada, Tulu, English
Github Skills (38)
cognitive-services8
azure-cosmos-db7
null-safety7
spark-ml7
tflint7
pyspark7
structured-data6
scala6
apache-spark6
azure-machine-learning6
azure5
lightgbm5
leaf5
deep-learning5
keyword-spotting5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
abattaje/udacity-data-streaming
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
abattaje/npacs
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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