Akshanth Sai K

Software Developer · Computer Vision · Machine Learning

Experience

Software Developer ↗

Cognida.ai · Hyderabad, India · On-site

  • Work on client-facing computer vision projects covering image segmentation, understanding, and image classification with production latency constraints.
  • Automate MLOps workflows for evaluation and retraining.
  • Improve model accuracy on large image datasets without breaking strict latency budgets.

SDE Intern ↗

Cognida.ai · Hyderabad, India · On-site

  • Completed a two-month training program covering AI systems, backend pipelines, and cloud deployment.
  • Part of a four-person team building an internal project management and resource analytics platform.
  • Built backend services in Django REST Framework exposing APIs for project, budget, and resource data.
  • Contributed to data models and views for budget tracking and performance insights, supporting top-down and bottom-up analysis.
  • Helped design the system architecture for integrating HRMS platforms, SOW document processing, and periodic project manager reviews.

AI Research Intern ↗

Genex Space · Bengaluru, India · On-site

  • Built TARS, a fully offline multimodal AI agent unifying speech (Vosk, WebRTC, Silero VAD), vision (YOLOv8, BLIP, Haar cascades), and language (Phi-4-mini-instruct) in a local pipeline with no cloud calls or external APIs.
  • Implemented LangGraph orchestration with dynamic node routing, custom concurrency management, and fault-tolerant health checks with auto-restarts.
  • Optimized large models for CPU-only inference on 16 GB RAM using quantized LLMs, achieving real-time performance without GPU acceleration.
  • Built GenexLearn, a Next.js e-learning PWA with course management, admin dashboards, authentication, dark mode, and an OpenRouter AI chat feature with per-user usage quota tracking.

Projects

RocketGlobe ↗

Desktop app

Tauri, Rust, React, TypeScript, FastAPI, SQLite, CesiumJS

  • Built an offline-first desktop app that shows global rocket launches on an interactive 3D globe, using live data from the Launch Library 2 API.
  • Designed a data sync pipeline that works within the API's strict rate limits, and bundled a seed database so the app has full launch data on first install, with no internet needed.
  • Set up automated testing and CI with GitHub Actions, plus a one-command Windows release pipeline.

AWS, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Image Processing

  • Designed and deployed the AWS architecture for a cloud-native pipeline that performs real-time distributed Lucky Imaging, where telescopes stream short-exposure frames to the cloud for automated quality selection and stacking.
  • Used continuous streaming and edge-based pre-filtering so only high-quality frames are transmitted, reducing bandwidth and latency, and let multiple telescopes share one processing environment for collaborative observations.

Python, Random Forest, SHAP

  • Built a reverse proxy pipeline that classifies HTTP attacks using a Random Forest model.
  • Applied Bayesian hyperparameter optimization and SMOTE for class imbalance, and added SHAP-based feature attribution for transparent security auditing.
  • Included an interactive dashboard for monitoring traffic, detected threats, and system performance.

Computational Humor & AI for Memes

Image Understanding (Research Project)

PaddleOCR, Tesseract, Qwen, Florence, BLIP-2, LLaMA-3, GPT-4

  • Built a two-stage pipeline combining OCR (PaddleOCR, Tesseract), vision-language models (Qwen, Florence), and captioning (BLIP-2) for semantic meme understanding.
  • Designed context-aware generation with LLMs (LLaMA-3, GPT-4), with control over humor style, cultural framing, and multilingual adaptation beyond static template methods.

Research

Deep Learning Framework for Astronomical Image Deblurring

Vision Transformers, GANs, Computer Vision

  • Designed a physics-informed two-stage pipeline using a Vision Transformer for localized point spread function (PSF) estimation and DeblurGAN for deconvolution, mitigating atmospheric turbulence in large-scale sky surveys.
  • Presented at ISRO's S2-STEP 2025 and the 6th Indian Planetary Science Conference (IPSC 2025) at IIT Roorkee, selected from roughly 400 accepted papers out of 800+ submissions, with an oral presentation.
Certificate ↗

Sustainable Lunar Habitat Design Utilizing PEMFC and GPHS-RTG

Space systems

  • Researched hybrid power systems combining proton-exchange membrane fuel cells with radioisotope thermoelectric generators for long-duration lunar habitation.
  • Presented at ICPEH 2024 (PRL Ahmedabad) to 200+ researchers.
ICPEH ↗

Leadership

Chairperson · SEDS VIT ↗

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space · Vellore, India

  • Led a 150+ member technical chapter and served as primary liaison between five faculty boards and SEDS India.
  • Ran 14 events in one term, including the 3-day StarParty at Gravitas 2025 (350 participants, INR 90,000 revenue).
  • Led a 20-member delegation to S2-STEP and IPSC 2025 at IIT Roorkee, with all 10 submitted abstracts accepted.
  • Expanded school outreach through the Anthariksh astronomy workshop programme, reaching 200+ students.

Open source

AlbumentationsX ↗

Computer vision augmentation library · Open source

  • Authored BBoxSubsetSafeRandomCrop, a spatial transform that samples a subset of bounding boxes and crops around their union.
  • Supports images, masks, bounding boxes, keypoints, and volumetric data. PR #435 ↗

Education

B.Tech, Computer Science Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology ↗ · Vellore, India

CGPA: 8.25/10

Focus areas: Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision.

Technical skills

ML & Computer Vision
PyTorch, OpenCV, YOLOv8, scikit-learn, Hugging Face Transformers, Vision Transformers, GANs, MLOps
Languages
Python, TypeScript / JavaScript, C++, Java, SQL
Backend & Web
Node.js, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Django, Django REST Framework, FastAPI
Data & Databases
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite, SQLAlchemy, Alembic
Cloud & DevOps
AWS, GCP, Docker, Git, CI/CD