Akhil Shekkari
AI Engineer · LLM Inference & Serving · MS Applied ML @ UMD
University of Maryland
MS Applied Machine Learning
Hi, I’m Akhil. I’m an AI Engineer and earned an MS in Applied Machine Learning at the University of Maryland. Before UMD, I was an AI Engineer at Atrium on a Pfizer R&D project and co-authored a peer-reviewed publication in Clinical Trials. I also spent three years as an ML Engineer at Tezo in India.
My interests include LLM inference and agent systems, with a focus on building practical understanding through hands-on work.
Read my evolving perspectives on general-purpose AI, including multimodal learning, grounded world models, and human-centered systems.
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| Jun 15, 2026 | Built Coding Agent, a LangGraph CLI agent with repo-scoped tools and self-hosted vLLM inference. |
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| Jun 01, 2026 | Built Mini-vLLM: paged KV cache and continuous batching for single-GPU inference. |
| Mar 03, 2026 | Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper in Clinical Trials with Pfizer R&D. Read the paper. |
| Feb 01, 2026 | Published GPU Fundamentals & LLM Inference Mental Models. |