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Akshay Nayak Portrait

Software Engineer specializing in AI & Full-Stack Development.

About Me

I like to say my work lives where curiosity, computation, & a slightly unreasonable desire for efficiency intersect. As a Master’s student at The George Washington University, I genuinely enjoy making machines think and systems scale.

My world revolves around AI, ML, & DL means not just the theory, but the engineering that turns research into intelligence. Whether it's optimizing a Go-based audio engine or architecting Pragati, I treat performance bottlenecks like personal challenges.

"The best systems scale without making the user feel the weight of that scale."

Research Focus

  • Trust Calibration
  • Multimodal Error Detection
  • Human-Robot Interaction

Education

GWU

MS in Computer Science

George Washington University

Arlington, VA 2024 – 2026
NITW

B.Tech in CSE

NIT Warangal

Warangal, India 2017 – 2021

My Journey

GWU

AI Developer Intern

George Washington University

Washington DC, USA | May 2025 - Aug 2025

Next.js TypeScript PostgreSQL RAG Vercel AI
Mastercard

Software Engineer II

Mastercard

Pune, India | July 2021 - Aug 2024

Full Stack Python React.js Modelling Django
Alan Turing

ML Researcher

Alan Turing Institute

London, UK | Jan 2021 - July 2021

Machine Learning LDA XLNet Sentiment Analysis
NITW

Research Assistant

NIT Warangal

India | July 2019 - Aug 2020

Deep Learning INASNET ResNet50 CNN
Setu

Software Intern

Setu.co

Bengaluru, India | May 2019 - July 2019

API Security OAuth 2.0 Django OpenID Connect
IISc

Research Intern

Indian Institute of Science

India | May 2018 - July 2018

Computer Vision MTCNN 3D-ResNet Pose Estimation

Technical Skills

Backend & Systems

Python Golang Java C++ Django Flask NodeJS PostgreSQL Redis

Frontend

ReactJS Next.js TypeScript Tailwind CSS

AI/ML & Infrastructure

PyTorch TensorFlow RAG Vector Search CUDA Git Docker Vercel