About Me
Data Engineer.
AI Enthusiast.
Lifelong Learner.
I'm Akshad Kolhatkar — a Data & AI Engineer based in India, passionate about building intelligent systems that make complex technology accessible to everyone. Through tech.with.akshad, I share what I learn with the community, one post at a time.
Journey
Career Timeline
Data Engineer
Bajaj Finserv - Bajaj Broking · Pune, India
Built RFM Dashboards, Session Maps, Forecasting & Next-Best Action Models driving Marketing Growth. Architected AWS Data Lakehouse with Kafka-based Real-Time Ingestion. Delivered Customer Data Platform across 7.5M+ customers. Built 60+ panel KPI Dashboards & Lead Management System handling 22K+ daily leads.
Started @tech.with.akshad
Instagram · Content Creation
Launched Instagram page to share AI/ML/Data Engineering concepts in a simplified, visual format. Grew to 5K+ followers organically while working full-time at Bajaj Finserv.
NLP Engineer Intern
Siemens · Bengaluru, India
Built Aggregation Pipelines & Knowledge Graphs (1500+ artifacts) using Graph DBs & APIs. Implemented semantic embeddings, auto-tagging & topic modeling to optimize internal search. Enhanced document retrieval via ontology & similarity modeling.
ML Research Intern
HCL Technologies · Delhi, India
Researched Quantum Neural Networks improving ML model efficiency. Developed Q-Fourier & Quanvolutional architectures achieving ~52x faster benchmarks on 20-qubit systems.
Data Engineer Intern
Lishash Music · Jaipur, India
Built MongoDB Pipelines, REST APIs & EDA Reports for 5K+ downloads. Developed Neo4j Retrieval Pipelines & Auto-Tagging for Sub-Genre Mapping. Built NLP Models for Audio Attributes, Vocal Separation & Recommenders serving 1.7K users.
B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering
SRM Institute of Science and Technology · Chennai
GPA: 9.29 / 10. Specialized in Machine Learning, Data Structures, and Database Systems. Built a strong foundation in AI/ML during undergraduate years alongside industry internships.
Expertise
Skills & Stack
Languages
AI / ML
Data Engineering
Databases
Cloud & DevOps
Frameworks
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