Aakash Anil Kolekar

University of Arizona, Eller College of Management · Seasonal

• Guest Lecturer

  Aug 2024 - Sep 2024 · 2 mos·Arizona, United States · On-site

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Full-time · 2 yrs 1 mo

• AI Research Scientist - @ Amazon Rufus, Search Science and AI

  Apr 2024 - Aug 2024 · 5 mos·On-site
• Machine Learning Engineer - Search Science and AI

  Aug 2023 - Apr 2024 · 9 mos·On-site

Flexport · Full-time

• Software Engineer

  Feb 2023 - Aug 2023 · 7 mos·On-site

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Optimizing world transportation one route at a time by improving freight allocations.\nDesigning large-scale latency-sensitive solutions for 15 countries to improve milk runs, sweep, linehaul, and point-to-point delivery for air and ocean shipments.\n\nI've contributed to the company's 4 PL (4th Party Logistics) initiative.\n\n1. Implemented Compliance API feature for 2000+ trucking carriers in North America (NAM), Europe (EU), and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions.\n\n2. Improved real-time visibility to 41% by introducing an innovative cross-functional design for modeling consecutive trucking legs within intermodal carriers in the European Union (EU).\n\n3. Increased milestone coverage by 28% in the transmission app used by trucking carriers, brokers, and owner-operators across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.\n\n4. Enhanced quote request efficiency for the finance team by creating a marketplace rate service that estimates procurement costs for four different service types.\n\n5. Enhanced event streaming and web-hook-based notifications for Apple, resulting in a 19% increase in system responsiveness and user engagement.\n\n6. Designed and implemented features to digitize carriers' characteristics, optimizing carrier onboarding processes across various markets and capabilities.\n\n7. Drove impactful Engineering Talks, upskilling 30+ engineers for adept utilization of event streaming at Flexport. Transformed complex concepts into actionable insights, amplifying technical prowess and showcasing leadership beyond the ordinary engineer role."},"1":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Skills: SQL · Leadership · REST API · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Apache Kafka · Ruby on Rails · Systems Design · GraphQL · Python (Programming Language) · NoSQL · React.js · Machine Learning · Protocol Buffers"}}

Wheeler Lab · Part-time

• AI Researcher

  Feb 2023 - Oct 2023 · 9 mos·Remote

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Designing the world's largest molecular dynamics repository to aid data augmentation for drug discovery!\nImproving drug discovery through graph neural networks and Imitation Learning."},"1":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Systems Design · Reinforcement Learning · Natural Language Processing (NLP) · Deep Neural Networks (DNN) · PyTorch"},"2":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"MDRepo—an open data warehouse for community-contributed molecular dynamics simulations of proteins","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/sync/v2/D5627AQGPQi3PXWjV6g/articleshare-shrink_800/articleshare-shrink_800/0/1731525617980?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=A5YqiuAhyZzqFnESm6PtOu7bb-a5P4J7w-A5lII7_ng"},"3":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"MDRepo - an open environment for data warehousing and knowledge discovery from molecular dynamics simulations","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/sync/v2/D4D27AQHO7h8QX7eKVA/articleshare-shrink_800/articleshare-shrink_800/0/1737721741224?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=Q5XP9oltKnkpr5TLiQepvX_TgtG0rnvKIVpnHj75FZE"},"4":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"Aakash Kolokar","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/sync/v2/D5627AQEkuR4AcX-8lQ/articleshare-shrink_800/articleshare-shrink_800/0/1716336354896?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=KxhQR5tftJtPd-0sqqLxEymnd-HxZZ_uahIoWtp0Huk"}}

Oricon Enterprise Limited · Freelance

• Software Engineering 2

  Feb 2023 - Mar 2023 · 2 mos·Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Apache Kafka · Ruby on Rails · Systems Design · GraphQL · React.js"},"1":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"This first season of Push Up Challenge is expected to see phenomenal participation and equal opportunity for both Men and Women.","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/sync/v2/D4D27AQHs2sCaDAc49A/articleshare-shrink_800/articleshare-shrink_800/0/1711573126600?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=QTGQ0RmkbEB02GyZeXl-b5rIARqPDhJD2mXenYgFzqc"}}

Part-time · 1 yr 4 mos

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  Aug 2022 - Nov 2022 · 4 mos

Amazon · Internship

• Machine Learning Engineer - Search Science and AI

  May 2022 - Dec 2022 · 8 mos·Palo Alto, California, United States

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Building Models for Amazon Search Science and AI\n\nAs a part of the Amazon Search retail team, I dived deep into improving customer search experience during the prime day!\n\n1. Improved deep learning model evaluation efficiency by 800%, reducing development efforts and increasing availability for partner teams across continents.\n\n2. Increased deep learning large language model F1 Score by 3% by developing a synthetic data generation architecture generating 600K queries for multiple marketplaces asynchronously.\n\n3. Designed a distributed model training pipeline using TorchX to manage compute resources, internode communication for distributed PyTorch workloads, and dynamically bake code in the base docker images.\n\nSkills: AWS, Docker, Typescript, Python, Java, Git, Large Language Models and Libraries (Deep Learning), PyTorch, TorchX, Onnx, NVIDIA TensorRT, NVIDIA Triton, AWS CDK, Apache Airflow, Bash, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment\n\nMore Skills:\nMachine Learning, MLOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning, Python, SQL, Data Lakes, AWS SageMaker, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Amazon EKS, AWS Batch, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, CDK, Terraform, Lustre, Amazon Dynamodb, AWS Lambda, AWS Step Functions, Algorithms, Go (Programming Language), AWS Glue, Statistical Data Analysis, Git, TensorFlow, Scientific Computing, CUDA, Scikit-Learn, NumPy, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Spark, Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)"},"1":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Skills: SQL · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Apache Kafka · Systems Design · Reinforcement Learning · NoSQL · Natural Language Processing (NLP) · Deep Neural Networks (DNN) · PyTorch"},"2":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"Amazon Science","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/sync/v2/D4D27AQEBrZVaQi7DJg/articleshare-shrink_480/B4DZgus1J5GkAw-/0/1753130161151?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=1LB2rt5a-t3Q4SaEIj8MhDC_aWSvch3moKpfuoT9_F4"}}

Banner Health · Contract

• Data Scientist, Business Consulting Project - University of Arizona, Eller College of Management

  Jan 2022 - May 2022 · 5 mos·United States

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"1. Identified high-impact departments by conducting an initial exploratory analysis of the organization-wide IT Service Management practice for 15+ departments using Python, sci-kit-learn, and Tableau.\n\n2. Designed a pipeline to reduce surveys by 30% but inturned increase the response rates by 10%.\n\n3. Identified customer pain points through Natural Language Processing techniques to reduce employee incidents within multiple departments.\n\nSkills: PyTorch, Tensorflow, ServiceNow, Python, Tableau, Language Models (Machine Learning)"},"1":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Skills: SQL · PyTorch"}}

Part-time · 1 yr 4 mos

• Software Engineer

  Sep 2021 - Dec 2021 · 4 mos
• Graduate Research Assistant - Academic and Research Technologies Group (ARTG)

  Aug 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

Medium · Freelance

• Content Developer

  May 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

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Zeza Technologies · Full-time

• Product Manager

  Mar 2021 - Jul 2021 · 5 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"1. Developed a scalable data mining platform to generate leads, identify key data points, and maximize usability.\n\n2. Drove engineering builds across multi-functional teams to identify complex issues, and interdependencies, and resolve conflicts efficiently.\n\n3. Spearheaded product development by defining detailed product requirements, scope, product roadmaps, and prioritized features’ delivery.\n\n4. Managed a team of seven engineers to build a scalable solution that generated terabytes of monthly data.\n\n5. Developed weekly communication plans and reporting dashboards to communicate status and technical issues to business stakeholders at all levels.\n\n6. Implemented AGILE by grooming user stories, facilitating sprint planning, retrospectives, and conducting product demos.\n\n7. Analyzed consumers’ experiences to measure impact and define friction points, and used rapid cycles to create and improve solutions.\n\n8. Collaborated with cross-functional teams, designed product roadmaps, defined features, and orchestrated Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure."},"1":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Skills: Kubernetes · Apache Kafka"}}

Quantiphi · Full-time

• System Design Engineer

  Jul 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"1. Designed and developed a scalable HIPAA-compliant architecture for a healthcare giant processing 1000+ medical forms every hour.\n\n2. Demonstrated understanding of customer requirements through client engagements and used rapid cycles to reiterate the product.\n\n3. Initiated feature refinement sessions in collaboration with a team of 27, consisting of developers, analysts, program and project managers.\n\n4. Conceptualized new features by identifying customer pain points and developing feature-specific roadmaps.\n\n5. Pioneered AMI-based delivery to increase 18% in revenue on AWS Marketplace by orchestrating infrastructure through CloudFormation Templates and Docker.\n\n6. Reduced 72% processing time by building data ingestion and distribution pipelines for stakeholders using AWS Elastic Container Service, AWS Lambda, AWS Simple Queue Service, AWS Simple Notification Service, AWS Simple Storage Service, and AWS Step Functions.\n\n7. Minimized go-to-market time by 40%. Used Blue-Green and staging deployment techniques to mitigate production errors across multiple environments. \n\n8. Containerized applications to improve code portability and infrastructure security for PHI data using Docker, AWS Elastic Container Service, and AWS Lambda Runtimes.\n\n9. Conceptualized and designed new features for a Natural Language Processing-based flagship product to reduce document pre-processing times by 50%.\n\n10. Optimized document processing pipelines churning out Gigabytes of data, to reduce latency and overall processing times by 70%.\n\n11. Created custom workflows and developed boards to aid project management on JIRA.\n\nSkills: AWS, Docker, HIPPA, Jira"},"1":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Skills: SQL · Kubernetes · Apache Kafka"}}

In5Minutes Tech · Internship

• Data Science, Product

  May 2020 - Jul 2020 · 3 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"1. Increased 20% of products' sales by conducting competitive analysis, reporting, and product marketing.\n\n2. Concocted a product roadmap for products in conception.\n\n3. Featured as the face of a series of products in a trailer video with 45000+ views.\n\n4. Conceived and delivered an “Approach to Competitive Programming” course to help students get jobs through 5-minute clips."},"1":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Skills: PyTorch"},"2":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"in5minutes Placement Series","thumbnail":"undefinedundefined"}}

SR Counselling India · Internship

• Brand Ambassador

  May 2020 - Jul 2020 · 3 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Analyzed data and stakeholder needs, discovered key insights and collaborated with 15+ universities increasing revenue by 33%."}}

7Vachan · Internship

• Software Engineer

  Mar 2020 - May 2020 · 3 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Developed an AGILE web-app extension by incorporating stakeholder review to cater to 250,000+ agents across continents.\n\nSkills: AWS, Python, Django, PHP, Stakeholder Analysis, Digital Ocean, Angular JS, Redis (Distributed Caching)"},"1":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Skills: Microsoft Azure"}}

Superprof · Freelance

• Python Professor

  Oct 2019 - Dec 2019 · 3 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"1. Delivered hands-on Python lectures to students between the age group of 16 to 28 from numerous domains.\n2. Helped students break down and comprehend previous assignment problems."}}

Neebal Technologies · Full-time

• Product Developer

  Jun 2019 - Feb 2020 · 9 mos·Mumbai Area, India

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"1. Coached as a Python teaching assistant to 500+ students and focused teaching on conceptual learning through use cases.\n\n2. Encouraged students to get over their fear of programming and helped them prepare for the upcoming hiring season as a result of which more than 70% of students secured myriad job offers.\n\n3. Developed a Product Requirement Document to understand customers’ needs, identify challenges and develop business milestones.\n\n4. Managed complex project schedules using Agile methodologies. Demonstrated ability in feature definition, design, and feasibility. \n\n5. Designed Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of a product to manage product backlog and prioritize the timeline of development."},"1":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"Aakash_Kolekar_Experience_Letter","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C4D2DAQHDnuT1Eg2neA/profile-treasury-image-shrink_800_800/profile-treasury-image-shrink_800_800/0/1624977438069?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=kFAzQRso0W4276fK1ouGDela93LpQbKWm1P687EjYvA"}}

7Vachan · Internship

• Software Engineer

  Dec 2018 - Aug 2019 · 9 mos·Mumbai Area, India

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"1. Designed and deployed a SaaS application using the Django web framework on enterprise platforms resulting in global enterprise expansion.\n\n2. Captured 150,000+ agents translating into leads across the US, UK, Middle East, and Asia, within six months of product launch.\n\n3. Demonstrated understanding of computer science fundamentals that affected code implementation and customer experience.\n\n4. Focused on enriching user experience that increased retention by 41%.\n\n5. Helped business stakeholders manage analytics, new leads, and communication using the custom-built backend system.\n\nSkills: AWS, Python, Django, PHP, Stakeholder Analysis, Digital Ocean, Angular JS"},"1":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"What Our Customers Say!","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/sync/v2/C5127AQFAuc6gOBkDUg/articleshare-shrink_800/articleshare-shrink_800/0/1575309268987?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=v54B99nrhtVWVQGJd1x4PQPyU9HIRDBfmcmgV2HSYlk"}}

Bloombench · Internship

• Technical Content Developer

  Jul 2018 - Sep 2018 · 3 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"Developed technical content and programming questions in Python language with solutions for 10000+ students across the globe.\n\nSkills: Python, Data Structures, Analysis of Algorithms"},"1":{"type":"mediaComponent","text":"Appreciation Letter","thumbnail":"https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C4D2DAQHmo7k-xhD7aw/profile-treasury-image-shrink_800_800/profile-treasury-image-shrink_800_800/0/1599723003370?e=1756720800&v=beta&t=MVFCpbq2DLpoYg8fzjAOSSHtgXHUaiUmsYaVh-iTEVI"}}

10 yrs 2 mos

• Captain, Cricketer

  Jan 2018 - Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Vice Captain, Cricketer

  Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

CASI Global New York · Part-time

• Student Representative

  Jan 2017 - Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mos·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  {"0":{"type":"textComponent","text":"1. Led numerous debates and talks during the CASI Global Student Associate program.\n2. Learned the craft of focusing on the incorporation of Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability into the product lifecycle."}}

10 yrs 2 mos

• Athlete, Cricketer

  Jan 2015 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
• Student Athlete, Cricketer

  Jan 2010 - Dec 2014 · 5 yrs·Mumbai, Maharashtra, India