Summary
Akshay Tilekar is a Machine Learning Lead based in Pune with a decade-long trajectory of designing and shipping production-grade ML and GenAI solutions across healthcare, finance, and data platforms. He has led ML-driven initiatives that measurably improved outcomes—reducing fraud losses by 30%, boosting pharma sales activity by 29%, and enhancing data accuracy and volume by 30% and 28% respectively—while also creating reusable platforms (ModelFactory, automated ML pipelines) to accelerate deployment. Comfortable collaborating with product and business teams, he shapes strategy as well as technical implementation, having driven a 20% uplift in data revenue through roadmap alignment. A hands-on builder with roots in ML ops, feature stores, KNIME/Databricks automation and cloud model deployment, he balances research, engineering rigor, and go-to-market thinking. Notably, his recent focus is streamlining ML for life-saving therapies, applying enterprise-grade practices to clinical and provider workflows.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at P.V.G college of science
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at S.P college
New English School
English, Marathi, Hindi