Akshay Uppal
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at ASAPP
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Uppal is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in Bengaluru with nine years of experience building production-grade AI systems, particularly in conversational AI and large language model pipelines. He combines hands-on research—training and evaluating LLMs—with practical engineering skills to design, implement, and deploy robust ML services and evaluation pipelines. His background includes patent-backed computer vision and DocumentAI solutions, end-to-end feedback loops for continuous learning, and published technical guides on transformer-based NLP. Prior roles span research, cloud/security engineering, and embedded systems, giving him a rare blend of deep learning, systems design, and productization experience. He’s equally comfortable running large-scale experiments and turning their results into maintainable production code.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering
English, Hindi, French
Github Skills (6)
machine-learning10
transfer-learning10
nlp10
paper10
natural-language-processing9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
au1206/NerveClusterSegmentation
Aug 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
au1206/paper_annotations
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
A place to keep track of all the annotated papers.
Contributions:35 commits, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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