Akshith Macharla

M.S. CS @ CSU Chico - ex-Associate Software Engineer at Cognizant - Building backend systems, developer tools and applied ML/AI.

San Francisco, CA
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

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
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

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)
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