Akhil Shekkari

About Me

Akhil Shekkari
AI Engineer
Towards AI Contributor
UMD Graduate Student

Building the Future of AI

Hi, I'm Akhil Shekkari, an AI engineer with over 3+ years of industry experience specializing in building production-grade AI systems that are fast, smart, and aligned with human goals.

Deep Learning & NLP

Expertise in PyTorch, Transformers, and advanced neural architectures

RAG Systems

Building intelligent retrieval systems with vector databases and embeddings

Production AI

Deploying scalable AI solutions with Docker, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure

Recent Achievement

Collaborated with Pfizer's AI team to automate Statistical Analysis Plan generation, reducing drafting time by 60% through innovative RAG pipelines and LLM-as-a-Judge systems.

Skills and Interests

Programming & Tools

Python PyTorch SQL ClearML Docker Kubernetes GitHub Actions LangChain LangGraph Scikit-learn

Cloud & Infrastructure

Snowflake AWS SageMaker Azure ML CI/CD

Core Competencies

Deep Learning Generative Models Machine Learning NLP RAG Agentic Workflows Model Evaluation Reinforcement Learning Diffusion Models

AI Reasoning

Developing models that can think step-by-step and solve complex problems

AI Safety & Alignment

Ensuring AI systems are safe, reliable, and aligned with human values

Performance Optimization

Making code run faster and GPUs go brrr! 🚀

Contact

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