Aakash Anil Kolekar
AI Research Scientist @ Amazon Ads | Patents in Amazon Search Science | Working on Reasoning and Omni Models, Multi-Agent Workflows, Inference Optimization | Ex Amazon Search | Ex Flexport | Ex Quantiphi
About Aakash Anil
Aakash Anil is currently a AI Research Scientist - Foundational Model @ Amazon Ads Research at Amazon. 16 years of professional experience. HSC at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans N.M.Institute of Science Munshi Nagar Andheri West Mumbai 400 058.
Experience
- AI Research Scientist - Foundational Model @ Amazon Ads ResearchSan Francisco Bay AreaCurrent
Reinforcement Learning For Multi-Agent Systems, Synthetic Data Bootstrapping, Domain Adaptation
- AI Research Scientist - Foundational Model @ Amazon Ads ResearchJun 2025 - Present · 3 mosOn-siteCurrent
- AI Research Scientist - @ Amazon Rufus, Search Science and AISan Francisco Bay Area
Long Context Pre-training and Post-training of Reasoning and Omni Models, Multi-Agent Workflows, Domain Adaptation, Inference Optimization through YARN and MHLA @ Rufus for 15+ countries Leading Science For Conversational Speech Synthesis for AI Product Summaries "Hear the Highlights"
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management · Seasonal
- Guest LecturerAug 2024 - Sep 2024 · 2 mosArizona, United States · On-site
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University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
- Guest LecturerArizona, United States
Aakash Kolekar ’22 MIS currently works at Amazon, but his journey has been far from straightforward. Based on his industry contributions, he was recently invited back to the Eller College of Management to talk to students who are taking the same path he once trod.
- AI Research Scientist - @ Amazon Rufus, Search Science and AIAug 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yrOn-site
- AI Research Scientist - @ Amazon Rufus, Search Science and AISan Francisco Bay Area
Enabling customers to explore top-of-the-funnel queries through multilingual multi-task conversational AI models @ Rufus. Improving discovery through state-of-the-art techniques like Supervised Finetuning, KTO, ORPO, Model Distillation, Multi-prompting, Speculative Decoding, Depth Pruning
- AI Research Scientist - @ Amazon Rufus, Search Science and AIApr 2024 - Aug 2024 · 5 mosOn-site
- Machine Learning Engineer - Search Science and AI
Improving Search Relevance for 300M+ Users Leveraging state-of-the-art deep learning research methods for data selection, model training, and inference. Developing Retrieval Augmented Generation framework to build catalog awareness in autocomplete. Published SOTA research at SIGIR 24
- Machine Learning Engineer - Search Science and AIAug 2023 - Apr 2024 · 9 mosOn-site
Oricon Enterprise Limited
- Software Engineering 2Seattle, Washington, United States
Oricon Enterprise Limited · Freelance
- Software Engineering 2Feb 2023 - Mar 2023 · 2 mosSeattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid
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- Software EngineerFeb 2023 - Aug 2023 · 7 mosOn-site
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- AI ResearcherFeb 2023 - Oct 2023 · 9 mosRemote
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- Software Engineer
Optimizing world transportation one route at a time by improving freight allocations. Designing large-scale latency-sensitive solutions for 15 countries to improve milk runs, sweep, linehaul, and point-to-point delivery for air and ocean shipments. I've contributed to the company's 4 PL (4th Party Logistics) initiative. 1. Implemented Compliance API feature for 2000+ trucking carriers in North America (NAM), Europe (EU), and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions. 2. 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). 3. Increased milestone coverage by 28% in the transmission app used by trucking carriers, brokers, and owner-operators across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. 4. Enhanced quote request efficiency for the finance team by creating a marketplace rate service that estimates procurement costs for four different service types. 5. Enhanced event streaming and web-hook-based notifications for Apple, resulting in a 19% increase in system responsiveness and user engagement. 6. Designed and implemented features to digitize carriers' characteristics, optimizing carrier onboarding processes across various markets and capabilities. 7. 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.
- AI Researcher
Designing the world's largest molecular dynamics repository to aid data augmentation for drug discovery! Improving drug discovery through graph neural networks and Imitation Learning.
- Graduate Teaching AssistantAug 2022 - Nov 2022 · 4 mos
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
- Graduate Teaching Assistant
1. Designed and delivered a guest lecture on distributed systems for the entire cohort of 100+ graduate students. This lecture focused on distributed systems fundamentals, case studies about state-of-the-art engineering applications, and possible ways to tackle system design interviews. 2. Assisted Professor Wei Chen by developing lesson plans, tracking student progress, and designing assignment structure and grading processes for the course MIS 543 - Business Data Communications & Networking.
- Machine Learning Engineer - Search Science and AIMay 2022 - Dec 2022 · 8 mosPalo Alto, California, United States
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- Machine Learning Engineer - Search Science and AIPalo Alto, California, United States
Building Models for Amazon Search Science and AI As a part of the Amazon Search retail team, I dived deep into improving customer search experience during the prime day! 1. Improved deep learning model evaluation efficiency by 800%, reducing development efforts and increasing availability for partner teams across continents. 2. Increased deep learning large language model F1 Score by 3% by developing a synthetic data generation architecture generating 600K queries for multiple marketplaces asynchronously. 3. 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. Skills: 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 More Skills: Machine 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)
- Data Scientist, Business Consulting Project - University of Arizona, Eller College of ManagementJan 2022 - May 2022 · 5 mosUnited States
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- Data Scientist, Business Consulting Project - University of Arizona, Eller College of ManagementUnited States
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. 2. Designed a pipeline to reduce surveys by 30% but inturned increase the response rates by 10%. 3. Identified customer pain points through Natural Language Processing techniques to reduce employee incidents within multiple departments. Skills: PyTorch, Tensorflow, ServiceNow, Python, Tableau, Language Models (Machine Learning)
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
- Software EngineerTucson, Arizona, United States
1. Designed an end-to-end solution for the University of Arizona Campus Pantry to manage their inventory, finances, and employee records. 2. Developed a web application to compute dashboards with key business metrics to facilitate efficiency. 3. Hosted on AWS and designed using Django, React JS, Oracle SQL.
- Software EngineerSep 2021 - Dec 2021 · 4 mos
- Graduate Research Assistant - Academic and Research Technologies Group (ARTG)Aug 2021 - Nov 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos
University of Arizona, Eller College of Management
- Graduate Research Assistant - Academic and Research Technologies Group (ARTG)United States
1. Reduced onboarding time and efforts by designing a server creation and maintenance pipeline. 2. Optimised security, user access, migration, and backups in collaboration with faculty as a Systems Design Research Engineer. 3. Developed a logging and monitoring framework to analyze and optimize runtime environments and streamline the debugging timeline. 4. Designing an on-demand Oracle server orchestration practice to minimize the time between conception and offering of a new in-person and online coursework. 5. Developed an end-to-end backup and restore feature, to facilitate internal as well as external backups. Skills: Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, Python, Java, Bash
- Content DeveloperMumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Content DeveloperMay 2021 - Aug 2022 · 1 yr 4 mosMumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Product ManagerMar 2021 - Jul 2021 · 5 mosMumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Product ManagerMumbai, Maharashtra, India
1. Developed a scalable data mining platform to generate leads, identify key data points, and maximize usability. 2. Drove engineering builds across multi-functional teams to identify complex issues, and interdependencies, and resolve conflicts efficiently. 3. Spearheaded product development by defining detailed product requirements, scope, product roadmaps, and prioritized features’ delivery. 4. Managed a team of seven engineers to build a scalable solution that generated terabytes of monthly data. 5. Developed weekly communication plans and reporting dashboards to communicate status and technical issues to business stakeholders at all levels. 6. Implemented AGILE by grooming user stories, facilitating sprint planning, retrospectives, and conducting product demos. 7. Analyzed consumers’ experiences to measure impact and define friction points, and used rapid cycles to create and improve solutions. 8. Collaborated with cross-functional teams, designed product roadmaps, defined features, and orchestrated Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.
- System Design EngineerMumbai, Maharashtra, India
1. Designed and developed a scalable HIPAA-compliant architecture for a healthcare giant processing 1000+ medical forms every hour. 2. Demonstrated understanding of customer requirements through client engagements and used rapid cycles to reiterate the product. 3. Initiated feature refinement sessions in collaboration with a team of 27, consisting of developers, analysts, program and project managers. 4. Conceptualized new features by identifying customer pain points and developing feature-specific roadmaps. 5. Pioneered AMI-based delivery to increase 18% in revenue on AWS Marketplace by orchestrating infrastructure through CloudFormation Templates and Docker. 6. 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. 7. Minimized go-to-market time by 40%. Used Blue-Green and staging deployment techniques to mitigate production errors across multiple environments. 8. Containerized applications to improve code portability and infrastructure security for PHI data using Docker, AWS Elastic Container Service, and AWS Lambda Runtimes. 9. Conceptualized and designed new features for a Natural Language Processing-based flagship product to reduce document pre-processing times by 50%. 10. Optimized document processing pipelines churning out Gigabytes of data, to reduce latency and overall processing times by 70%. 11. Created custom workflows and developed boards to aid project management on JIRA. Skills: AWS, Docker, HIPPA, Jira
- System Design EngineerJul 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1 yr 1 moMumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Data Science, ProductMumbai, Maharashtra, India
1. Increased 20% of products' sales by conducting competitive analysis, reporting, and product marketing. 2. Concocted a product roadmap for products in conception. 3. Featured as the face of a series of products in a trailer video with 45000+ views. 4. Conceived and delivered an “Approach to Competitive Programming” course to help students get jobs through 5-minute clips.
SR Counselling India · Internship
- Brand AmbassadorMay 2020 - Jul 2020 · 3 mosMumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Data Science, ProductMay 2020 - Jul 2020 · 3 mosMumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Brand AmbassadorMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Analyzed data and stakeholder needs, discovered key insights and collaborated with 15+ universities increasing revenue by 33%.
- Software EngineerMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Developed an AGILE web-app extension by incorporating stakeholder review to cater to 250,000+ agents across continents. Skills: AWS, Python, Django, PHP, Stakeholder Analysis, Digital Ocean, Angular JS, Redis (Distributed Caching)
- Software EngineerMar 2020 - May 2020 · 3 mosMumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Python ProfessorOct 2019 - Dec 2019 · 3 mosMumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Python ProfessorMumbai, Maharashtra, India
1. Delivered hands-on Python lectures to students between the age group of 16 to 28 from numerous domains. 2. Helped students break down and comprehend previous assignment problems.
Neebal Technologies · Full-time
- Product DeveloperJun 2019 - Feb 2020 · 9 mosMumbai Area, India
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- Product DeveloperMumbai Metropolitan Region
1. Coached as a Python teaching assistant to 500+ students and focused teaching on conceptual learning through use cases. 2. 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. 3. Developed a Product Requirement Document to understand customers’ needs, identify challenges and develop business milestones. 4. Managed complex project schedules using Agile methodologies. Demonstrated ability in feature definition, design, and feasibility. 5. Designed Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) of a product to manage product backlog and prioritize the timeline of development.
- Software EngineerMumbai Metropolitan Region
1. Designed and deployed a SaaS application using the Django web framework on enterprise platforms resulting in global enterprise expansion. 2. Captured 150,000+ agents translating into leads across the US, UK, Middle East, and Asia, within six months of product launch. 3. Demonstrated understanding of computer science fundamentals that affected code implementation and customer experience. 4. Focused on enriching user experience that increased retention by 41%. 5. Helped business stakeholders manage analytics, new leads, and communication using the custom-built backend system. Skills: AWS, Python, Django, PHP, Stakeholder Analysis, Digital Ocean, Angular JS
- Software EngineerDec 2018 - Aug 2019 · 9 mosMumbai Area, India
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- Technical Content DeveloperJul 2018 - Sep 2018 · 3 mosMumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Technical Content DeveloperMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Developed technical content and programming questions in Python language with solutions for 10000+ students across the globe. Skills: Python, Data Structures, Analysis of Algorithms
- Captain, CricketerMumbai, Maharashtra, India
1. Captained the engineering cricket team to a win at the K J Somaiya College of Engineering tournament. 2. Scored 1000+ runs in 12 matches. Awarded Man of the Tournament in three different tournaments.
- Captain, CricketerJan 2018 - Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mosMumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Community Service Intern
CASI Global New York · Part-time
- Student RepresentativeJan 2017 - Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 4 mosMumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Vice Captain, CricketerJan 2017 - Dec 2017 · 1 yrMumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Vice Captain, CricketerMumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Student RepresentativeMumbai, Maharashtra, India
1. Led numerous debates and talks during the CASI Global Student Associate program. 2. Learned the craft of focusing on the incorporation of Corporate Social Responsibility and sustainability into the product lifecycle.
- Athlete, CricketerMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Led the college team by scoring 3 consecutive centuries to 2 successive title wins in 2 different formats.
- Athlete, CricketerJan 2015 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrsMumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Student Athlete, CricketerMumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Student Athlete, CricketerJan 2010 - Dec 2014 · 5 yrsMumbai, Maharashtra, India
Education
- Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans N.M.Institute of Science Munshi Nagar Andheri West Mumbai 400 058HSC, Computer Science
- Hansraj Morarji Public School - IndiaSchool
- Master of Science - MS, Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems
Course Highlights MIS 596: Deep Learning MIS 547: Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing MIS 545: Data Mining MIS 552: Statistics MIS 543: Networking MIS 515: Big Data Technology MIS 531: Enterprise Data Management and Optimization MIS 541: Information Systems Analysis and Design MIS 597A: Business Consulting MIS 559: New Product Innovation and Strategy
- Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Computer Science
Course Highlights CSC703: Artificial Intelligence & Soft Computing CSC804: Natural Language Processing CSC604: Machine Learning CSC7038: Distributed Systems and Architecture CSC804: Cloud Computing CSDLO7032: Big Data & Analytics CSC603: Data Warehousing & Mining CSC305: Data Structures CSC504: Advanced Algorithms CSL404: Operating System CSC601: Software Engineering IL08026: Research Methodology
- HSC, Computer Science, Computer Science
- University of Arizona, Eller College of ManagementMaster of Science - MS, Management Information Systems
- University of MumbaiBachelor's degree, Computer Science
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