Akshay Kamath

Experience

Where I've shipped code

CiscoJun – Aug 2025

Software Engineer Intern · Durham, NC

Built a LangChain chatbot answering revenue queries for 50+ team members, saving 20–40 hrs/week
Cut query latency from 30–60s to 3–10s on 200K+ rows via 11-table SQL rewrite with Redis caching
Sustained 99% uptime with automated testing, Kubernetes deployments, and Webex alerts

LangChainRedisK8sSQL

TeslaJan – May 2025

Software Engineer (Contract) · San Jose

Mapped 126 priority EV charger sites from 12K+ parking lots with KMeans clustering
Interactive map on OpenStreetMap; renders in 20–30s with GitHub Actions CI
Cut ownership lookup from 5 min to 45s for 8 consultants via scraper + API wrapper

PythonKMeansOSMActions

CiscoJun – Aug 2024

Software Engineer Intern · San Jose

Architected a distributed pub/sub pipeline to move 10K+ financial records/day across internal teams via Kafka
Reduced peak consumer lag from 10 min to under 3 min with a custom load-testing producer on AWS
Stress-tested Kafka configs: idempotency, partition tuning, and replication settings until achieving <1% errors

KafkaAWSJavaDocker

SJSU ResearchDec 2023 – May 2025

Undergraduate Researcher · San Jose

Li-ion battery life prediction pipeline in PyTorch with Dr. Sengupta
Benchmarked 7 models — up to 63% error reduction vs. LSTM on NASA/CALCE datasets

PyTorchNumPyscikit-learn

Projects

Things I've built

OrderFlow

Java 17 · Spring Boot · JUnit · JMH

Low-latency in-memory order matching engine with price–time priority
4 per-symbol shards via command queues, lock-free concurrency on hot path
Validated via JMH benchmarking, SHA-256 replays, and 25 JUnit tests

193K orders/sec · p99 42µs

PUnit

Python · FastAPI · React · TypeScript · SQLite

Stock backtesting and forecasting with 6 endpoints, 11 scenarios
Correlated Monte Carlo (Cholesky+jitter), up to 50K sims/run
SQLite caching + 88 tests with GitHub Actions CI/CD

50K simulations/run

Strands

Java · Spring Boot · React · PostgreSQL · Docker

Threads-style social app with REST APIs, React UI, PostgreSQL
Feed, search, likes, follow/unfollow with SQL joins
Containerized with Docker Compose and env-based config

Full-stack social platform

Technical Skills

My toolkit

Languages

Python Java C JavaScript SQL

Frameworks

Spring Boot FastAPI Flask Express React JUnit pytest LangChain

Databases

PostgreSQL SQLite Redis (NoSQL)

Developer Tools

Git Linux/Bash Docker Kubernetes Jenkins GitHub Actions CI/CD AWS GCP Kafka

Libraries

NumPy pandas scikit-learn SQLAlchemy Matplotlib

About

The signal source

I'm Akshay, a computer science student at San José State University focused on building fast, reliable systems. My work spans distributed backend infrastructure, low-latency software, and machine learning research, with a strong interest in engineering where performance and correctness both matter.

I've shipped at Cisco and Tesla, and I founded and directed SJHacks in Spring 2025, helping bring together 200+ student builders. Whether I'm working on production systems or research pipelines, I'm motivated by thoughtful engineering and the challenge of building things that hold up at scale.

3.7

GPA

Internships

2027

Graduation

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