Hey there, I'm Akshay J Kulkarni 👋
SDE | AI & Backend Developer | Open Source | Problem Solver ⚡
🧠 About Me
- 🎓 Final-year B.E. student in Information Science @ Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Bengaluru
- 💻 Passionate about scalable backend systems, ML-driven applications & open source
- 🤖 Exploring AI/ML, cloud, and system design
- ✨ Currently: Open Source Contributor @ GirlScript Summer of Code | AI Trainee @ Samsung Innovation Campus
🚀 Skills & Tools
Languages: Java · C++ · Python · JavaScript · SQL
Backend: FastAPI · Node.js · Express · REST APIs
AI/ML: Scikit-learn · TensorFlow · Pandas · NumPy
Frontend: React · TailwindCSS
Tools: Docker · Git · GitHub · AWS · VS Code
🧩 Projects
🔹 AdScale — ML-powered CTR prediction API with <20ms latency
🔹 BidBrain — Real-time bidding engine using FastAPI + AsyncIO
🔹 FINEDU — Financial literacy web platform with adaptive quizzes
🔹 Finance Manager — Secure finance app with JWT & analytics
- 🥇 Top 4.4% in Naukri Campus Coding Contest
- ⚡ Ranked 11th in College Hackerrank Contest
- 🚀 Selected for McKinsey Forward Program 2025
- 🎓 Samsung Innovation Campus AI Program Trainee
“It ain’t much, but it’s honest code.” 😄
Pratice makes a man perfect.