Akshay Bhardwaj
Director Of Data Science And AI
Gurugram, Haryana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Bhardwaj is the Director of Data Science and AI at Mechademy, leading the AI backbone of Turbomechanica—an Industrial IoT platform deployed by major energy clients like Chevron and Woodside. Over eight years he grew from the company’s first data scientist to director, architecting domain-specific AutoML, production GenAI, and a 50TB+ medallion data lake that cut query times and costs dramatically. He combines hands-on MLOps, DevOps and data engineering (CKAD certified) with physics-informed ML rooted in his petroleum engineering background, enabling models that need far less historical data to bootstrap. Akshay built scalable ML serving from single-model K8s pods to two EC2 instances handling 400+ models, and pioneered LLM-driven feature selection, config extraction, and diagnostic copilots in production. He’s driving seven major 2026 AI initiatives—Agentic Monitoring, ML democratization, and a Diagnostic Copilot—that aim to multiply engineer coverage and automate root-cause analysis. Outside work he’s self-taught through fast.ai and Udacity projects, having implemented everything from transformers-from-scratch to multi-agent LangGraph systems.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Data Engineering Nanodegree Data Engineering, Data Engineering Nanodegree Data Engineering at UdacityBachelor's Degree Petroleum Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Petroleum Engineering at Maharashtra Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi, Spanish
Github Skills (48)
pytorch10
artificial-intelligence10
pandas10
machine-learning10
datasets10
huggingface10
speech10
ai10
natural-language-processing10
computer-vision10
nlp10
llm9
numpy9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akshayb7/NLP-Learn
Aug 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
akshayb7/sentiment-analysis-pipeline
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:65 pushes, 3 branches in 2 days
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