Akshay Uppal
Software Engineer - ML at Amazon
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Uppal is a software engineer specializing in machine learning with 8 years of professional experience and a Master’s in Computer Science from UIC. He designs and ships production ML systems—building everything from Kubeflow pipelines and PyTorch models to Flask microservices and React dashboards—focused on reliable deployment and operational efficiency. At Amazon he reduced manual work across partners and optimized wakeword models for edge devices, including a DSP quantization that cut model size while preserving accuracy. Previously at iManage he automated model validation and built entity extraction pipelines that saved thousands of data-scientist hours and improved F1 scores in legal NLP tasks. Comfortable across cloud, containerization, and explainability tools (LRP, SHAP), he pairs hands-on optimization with a knack for translating research into measurable business impact. Outside work he documents ML learnings on Towards Data Science and has a track record of mentoring interns and driving cross-functional automation.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, GPA - 3.86, Master's degree, Computer Science, GPA - 3.86 at University of Illinois at ChicagoBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Maharaja Surajmal Institute Of Techology ,Janakpuri New Delhi
spanish<beginner>, English, Hindi
Github Skills (77)
k8s10
storage10
amazon-s310
gradient-boosting9
proxies9
scale9
security9
api-management9
microservices9
shapley9
networking9
machine-learning9
shap9
kubernetes9
api8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
akshayuppal3/Applied-AI
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
akshayuppal3/dataStructureAlgo
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:15 PRs, 24 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
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