Junior AI/ML engineer · design · coding

Junior AI/ML Engineer
with a background in
full-stack dev

I used to build software systems—now I’m learning to build models that predict and learn from data.

Akshay
5+
Experience
20+
Projects
3
AI Models
Open Source

Side projects

NewsGuard

Built a system to monitor and analyze news data, extracting company mentions, classifying topics, and evaluating sentiment to surface relevant insights. Designed a semantic similarity layer to flag articles related to environmental risks.

NLP SpaCy NER Sentiment

FaceMood

Developed a real-time computer vision system that detects and classifies facial emotions from a webcam video stream. Trained a CNN model to recognize multiple emotions and integrated it with OpenCV for live face detection.

CV Deep Learning TensorFlow OpenCV

Titanic

Built a machine learning model to predict passenger survival using structured data. Performed exploratory data analysis and feature engineering to improve model performance, achieving competitive accuracy on the Kaggle leaderboard.

Python Pandas Scikit-learn ML
Experience

The journey

2020–2023

UI/UX Designer

Disquared Agency & Freelance

Worked with Disquared Agency in Fez, researching and designing polished user experiences for client projects.

2023–2025

Full Stack Developer

Zone 01

Earned a diploma in Networking & Systems and joined Zone 01, where I built 20+ software projects.

2026–Now

AI / ML Engineer

Junior Transition

Transitioned into AI and machine learning, building a solid foundation in Python, ML, NLP, and computer vision.