AI Engineer

Akshay K Upadhyay

AI Engineer · LLM Applications & Backend Systems

I build production AI applications: LLM-powered APIs, retrieval (RAG) pipelines and the backend services around them, with Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL and Docker.

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About

Engineer who ships complete AI products

I'm an AI Engineer at WHIZROBO, an AI robotics company, where I integrate LLMs, face recognition and voice into service robots used by schools, and own the robots' configuration and licensing system. Outside work I build complete AI products: AutoApplier, a multi-user job-search platform with a rate-limit-aware LLM key pool and a serverless job queue; TruthLens, an AI fact-checking platform; and VisionAI Campus, real-time person identification with YOLO and InsightFace. I'm studying for a B.S. in Data Science and Applications at IIT Madras.

Education

B.S. in Data Science and Applications

Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

2023 - 2027

  • Diploma in Data Science and Diploma in Programming (2025)

Experience

Where I work

AI/ML Engineer

WHIZROBO · AI robotics, EdTech

Dec 2025 - Present
  • Integrate LLMs into production robot apps used by schools, a conversational assistant and an AI tutor, via OpenAI-compatible APIs.
  • Work on the robots' perception and voice stack: separated face recognition from the camera pipeline and built reusable speech and camera packages shared across robot apps.
  • Shipped a voice-guided AI admission kiosk used by schools on service robots: speech recognition with fuzzy answer matching and QR document upload, across 8 releases.
  • Main developer of the robot configuration and licensing system: server-driven settings with ETag caching, offline mode with safe rollback, per-customer feature control and de-duplicated usage telemetry (110+ commits, 50 automated test files).
  • Built the licence and device admin portal with Next.js, Prisma and TypeScript.
LLM APIsFace recognitionSpeechKotlinAndroidNext.jsPrismaTypeScript

Projects

Selected work

Products I designed and built end to end. Most are live, with source code on GitHub.

AutoApplier - AI Job Search Platform screenshot

AutoApplier - AI Job Search Platform

2026

Multi-user platform that finds openings on company career sites (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby) and job boards, scores fit with LLMs and tailors a resume and cover letter per job. Bring-your-own-key LLM pool across Groq, Gemini, OpenAI and Claude with rate-limit-aware cooldowns; a durable background-job queue that runs on serverless hosting; guardrails that drop any resume line not grounded in the candidate's CV.

PythonFastAPINext.jsPostgreSQLLLMs
TruthLens screenshot

TruthLens

2025

AI fact-checking platform: breaks claims into verifiable sub-claims, researches them on the web, and verifies each against retrieved evidence with LLMs, using vector embeddings and semantic search.

FastAPIReactRAGLLMs

VisionAI Campus - Real-Time Person Identification

2026

Desktop app that marks attendance and counts visitors from a live camera: YOLOv11 person detection, InsightFace face embeddings and centroid tracking with IN/OUT line crossing, in a threaded pipeline that stays real-time on ordinary laptops.

PythonYOLOv11InsightFaceOpenCVPySide6
GenAI HR Platform screenshot

GenAI HR Platform

2025

Team project (8 people) for the IIT Madras Software Engineering course. I built the backend and much of the Vue frontend: a Gemini RAG chatbot that answers from company policies and sends unanswered questions to HR, AI resume screening and job description writing, leave management, and dashboards for HR, managers and employees.

PythonFlaskVue 3GeminiRAG
Customer Purchase-Value Prediction screenshot

Customer Purchase-Value Prediction

2025

Predicted customer purchase value from behavioural data. 150+ tracked experiments in encoding, feature engineering and model selection lifted the validation score from below the 0.45 baseline to 0.73.

PythonPandasNumPyFeature engineering
Curia-Logica screenshot

Curia-Logica

2025

Multi-agent consensus system utilizing multiple models (Claude, Gemini, etc.) to evaluate and judge complex conversational data.

FastAPIPythonGenAI
RAG-Based Knowledge Assistant screenshot

RAG-Based Knowledge Assistant

2025

Built Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using LangChain and semantic retrieval workflows. Implemented document ingestion pipelines, embedding workflows, vector search systems, and contextual AI response generation.

LangChainVector DBPython
AI Data Analyst Agent screenshot

AI Data Analyst Agent

2025

Built a fullstack AI-powered analytics platform using FastAPI backend services and React frontend architecture. Developed LangChain workflows for natural language querying, reasoning pipelines, tool execution, and automated report generation.

FastAPIReactLangChainPython
PPT Generator screenshot

PPT Generator

2025

AI-powered tool to automatically generate complete presentation slides and talking points based on user prompts.

PythonGenAI

Household Services Web Application

2025

Robust platform connecting users with local service professionals through direct hiring or bidding, featuring an admin dashboard and professional verification.

Vue.jsFlaskPostgreSQLRedis

Skills

Tools I work with

Applied AI

LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Groq)RAGEmbeddingsVector searchPrompt engineeringLangChainDocument processing

Backend & Data

FastAPIAsync PythonREST APIsPostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBPrisma ORM

Languages & Frontend

PythonSQLTypeScriptJavaScriptReactNext.js

Machine Learning

PandasNumPyHugging FaceFeature engineeringModel evaluation

Computer Vision

YOLO (Ultralytics)InsightFaceOpenCV

Tools & Deployment

DockerGit & GitHubVercelCI/CDPostman

Credentials

Achievements & certificates

Finalist, Devbhoomi Cyber Hackathon 3.0

Uttarakhand Police with DBS Global University, Dehradun

Nov 2025View

Diploma in Data Science

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Sep 2025View

Diploma in Programming

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Sep 2025View

Foundation Certificate in Data Science

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

May 2024View

Contact

Let's talk

Happy to talk about AI engineering, LLM applications and backend systems.

Areas of focus

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningFullstack Web DevelopmentData ScienceScalable ArchitecturesLLM Orchestration
Location
Gorakhpur, India