Akshay U Hegde

Senior Automation Engineer

Ascendeum Pvt Ltd•  December 2021 - March 2022

● Researched and prototyped the automated segregation of advertising placements (~250k data points and ~50k labels) using Logistic Regression SGD with 80.61% test accuracy ● Developed Python ETL scripts to pipe advertising analytics data from ~100 API/UI Automation sources into a data warehouse ● Designed and developed a ReactJS customer service chat application with a WebRTC backend, as an additional feature for a data dashboard, with a turnaround time of 1 week

Senior Software Engineer

Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt Ltd•  July 2018 - November 2021

● Spearheaded the development of a log anomaly detection model using Natural Language Processing, performed log preprocessing, vectorization, TFIDF transformation and model evaluation with SVMs and LSTMs achieving 99% accuracy ● Revamped the pricing and marketing strategy of an internal cloud embedded device access service using cost estimation through regression analysis and competitor research, increasing subscription volumes by 200% and generating more than 30 leads ● Created skill enhancement learning groups and charted skill upgrade paths for associates through exploratory data analysis of the self-reported data of 50 associates ● Overhauled underlying computer vision algorithm of a python GUI validation tool for infotainment devices through rigorous experimentation, thereby adding support for Asian and Middle-Eastern languages ● Rebuilt reference image generation library for automated testing, to synthesize more robust reference images, enhancing accuracy from 61% to 84% for Latin languages

BMS College of Engineering

Electronics and Communication Engineering, BE•  September 2014 - August 2018

CGPA: 9.3/10