Akshith Macharla

About

M.S. Computer Science student at CSU Chico (GPA 4.0) and former Associate Software Engineer at Cognizant with 2.5+ years of experience. I build backend systems, developer tools, and applied ML/AI solutions -- from Spring Boot microservices serving 10K+ users to LoRA fine-tuned LLMs, RAG pipelines, and 3D computer vision with Intel RealSense. AWS certified, hackathon builder, and always shipping.

Work Experience

California State University, Chico Research

Mar 2026 - Present

Chico, CA - Dept. of Civil Engineering - Prof. DingXin Cheng, Ph.D., P.E.

Research Assistant - 3D Computer Vision of Road Surfaces

Building a 3D computer vision pipeline for road surface analysis using Intel RealSense D455f depth cameras, capturing and processing point-cloud data to detect pavement distress and surface defects.
Developing depth-sensing and image processing methods for automated road condition assessment under the California Pavement Preservation Center (CP2C).

Python Intel RealSense OpenCV Point Clouds 3D Vision librealsense

California State University, Chico

Nov 2025 - Feb 2026

Chico, CA

Web Developer

Shipped "Chico Love" event website end-to-end -- landing pages, registration UX, and backend integration.
Built registration backend on Cloudflare Workers D1 with schema/indexes, validation, and idempotent email uniqueness. Standardized Wrangler deploy + local test workflow.

TypeScript SvelteKit Tailwind CSS Cloudflare Workers Wrangler

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Dec 2021 - Aug 2024

Hyderabad, India

Associate Software Engineer

Built and maintained Java Spring Boot microservices for insurance claims and policy workflows for 10,000+ active users. Improved API responsiveness via DB query optimization and payload tuning validated in Dynatrace.
Owned AWS production support and releases: monitored via Dynatrace, triaged and resolved 100+ incidents (auth, login, registration, integrations), and sustained 99.9% uptime. Improved delivery quality with JUnit tests and documentation.

Java Spring Boot AWS Dynatrace JUnit REST APIs

Edureka

Jan 2023 - Jul 2023

Hyderabad, India

Data Science and Machine Learning Intern

Built reproducible Pandas + SQL pipeline on 1.3M rows. Trained Elastic Net logistic regression with temporal validation and tuned threshold to improve minority-class recall.

Python Pandas SQL Scikit-learn

Projects

Software Engineering

APIs, Backend Systems, Full Stack

Data Science + ML

Prediction, Streaming, Pipelines

HW-Aware Throughput Prediction → EWMA Anomaly Detection → LoRA Fine-Tuning → View all →

Artificial Intelligence

LLMs, RAG, Agents

Doc RAG Agent → LLM Fine-Tuning (LoRA) → Chaos Reviewer (Cal Hacks) → View all →

Computer Vision

3D Vision, Depth Sensing, CNNs

3D Road Surface Analysis (RealSense D455f) → CNN Training Predictor (A100) → Image Processing Projects → View all →

Education

California State University, Chico

Dec 2026

Master of Science, Computer Science - GPA: 4.0 / 4.0

Courses: Machine Learning, Software Design, Data Structures and Algorithms, Computer Vision, Quantum Computing

Skills

Languages

Python Java C++ TypeScript

Backend / Data / Databases

FastAPI Spring Boot REST APIs FAISS Qdrant PostgreSQL MongoDB React Next.js JUnit Pytest

Cloud / DevOps / Observability

Azure AWS GCP Docker CI/CD Prometheus Grafana Kubernetes Spark Kafka

ML / LLM

PyTorch Hugging Face LoRA Fine-Tuning RAG JSON Schema Validation Eval Harnesses

Certifications and Awards

Chaos Reviewer - AI Agent, Fetch.ai Track @ Cal Hacks - ~7.2K interactions

AWS Certified Developer - Associate

AWS Machine Learning Foundations

Udacity - Introducing Generative AI with AWS

Meta Backend Developer (Coursera)