Akshay Garlapati
Professional Summary
AI/ML Intern with 1+ years of internship and project experience building real-time, AI-driven applications and threat-detection pipelines. Skilled in Python, machine learning (scikit-learn), NLP, FastAPI, Flask and Streamlit; experienced in model development, feature engineering, API deployment and end-to-end prototype delivery for education and security-focused use cases.
Technical Skills
Work Experience
- Designed and deployed a Streamlit-based Study Buddy application to generate personalized study plans; integrated adaptive scheduling and recommendations to improve user learning efficiency.
- Implemented recommendation components with feature engineering and user-behavior signals using pandas and scikit-learn, delivering tailored suggestions with ~1 second response time.
- Built a voice-enabled interview and assessment module using Speech-to-Text, NLP pipelines, and Text-to-Speech to enable real-time candidate evaluation with sub-3-second interaction latency.
- Developed FastAPI endpoints to serve model predictions and recommendations; containerized API-ready prototypes and validated end-to-end request/response flows for demo deployments.
- Authored preprocessing and model training pipelines for classification and ranking tasks, validating model performance via cross-validation and standard metrics to guide iterative improvements.
- Collaborated with mentors to produce technical documentation, user guides and test cases; performed functional testing and resolved defects to stabilize internship deliverables.
- Supported research-oriented tasks by implementing machine learning prototypes for signal and dataset analysis using Python, pandas and scikit-learn.
- Conducted exploratory data analysis and feature extraction to prepare biomedical datasets for model training and validation, improving data quality for downstream models.
- Implemented and evaluated classification models and benchmarking scripts; documented model behavior and generated reproducible Jupyter notebooks for review.
- Optimized data preprocessing workflows to reduce manual cleaning time and standardized transformation steps for consistent experiment pipelines.
- Prepared technical reports and presented findings to supervisors, highlighting model performance, limitations, and recommended next steps for further research.
- Followed SDLC and STLC practices during the internship: wrote test cases, logged defects, and iterated on code based on feedback to meet project milestones.
Projects
- Architected an AI-driven recruitment platform to automate resume screening using NLP and machine learning, reducing manual shortlisting effort by ~40% through automated ranking.
- Developed a voice-enabled interview module combining STT, NLP and TTS to enable live candidate interaction and evaluation with under 3 seconds response latency.
- Integrated resume parsing, feature extraction and ML-based ranking models into a prototype web interface to streamline recruiter workflows.
- Engineered a machine learning threat detection pipeline using Random Forest and SVM models achieving ~90% accuracy on test datasets for malicious activity identification.
- Built a FastAPI-based real-time prediction pipeline and optimized preprocessing to process over 10,000 records, improving detection throughput and reliability.
- Implemented end-to-end feature engineering, model validation and monitoring-ready outputs to support prototype security analytics.
- Constructed a Streamlit application that generates personalized study plans and adaptive recommendations, improving user efficiency by ~30% in pilot tests.
- Optimized recommendation algorithms using user-input signals and behavior patterns to deliver targeted study suggestions with ~1 second response time.
- Packaged the prototype with clear user flows and deployment scripts for instructor demos and student trials.
Education
Certifications
Achievements
- Smart India Hackathon 2025 - Engineered AI-based Laser QR Code Marking System for Indian Railways — 2025
- Smart India Hackathon 2024 - Created a smart education platform for community-based skill exchange — 2024
- Certificate of Appreciation - Edzeeta Student Partner Program
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