Akansha Jain

Akansha Jain

AI Software Engineer — GenAI / RAG / LLM

San Jose, California

AI Engineer building production-grade GenAI systems. Currently developing Emily, an AI analytics co-pilot at Interactly.ai that enables natural-language querying, automates insight generation, and accelerates decision-making for non-technical users.

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About

AI Engineer with hands-on experience building production-grade GenAI systems. Previously delivered a 30% repurchase lift through large-scale recommender systems at Titan and built LLM/RAG-based tools that reduced support volume by 20% across open-source platforms.

Experience

AI Software Engineer Intern

Interactly.ai · California, USA

Nov 2025 — Present

  • Designed and developed Emily, an AI analytics co-pilot to analyze hospital call logs and surface insights
  • Built natural language to MongoDB query translation enabling plain English analytics for hospital staff
  • Automated query execution and insight generation pipelines, reducing manual reporting efforts
  • Improved decision-making speed and accessibility of analytics for non-technical users

AI Software Engineer & Maintainer

EvalAI — Open Source · California, USA

May 2024 — Present

  • Contributes to open-source platform for evaluating and benchmarking AI models — 500+ challenges, 50K+ users, 500K+ submissions
  • Used by Google, Facebook, IBM, Intel, eBay, MIT, Stanford, CMU, Georgia Tech
  • Migrated EC2 infrastructure to containerized deployments with Docker and Travis CI, reducing hosting costs by 18%

Data Scientist

Titan Company Ltd. (A Tata Company) · Bengaluru, India

Feb 2023 — Jul 2024

  • Built & deployed personalized dealer recommender on Titan's D2D platform using XGBoost + item-item similarity
  • Trained on 20K dealers and 1M+ SKUs, achieving 30% increase in repurchase rate via A/B tests
  • Partnered with deployment & business teams to drive adoption end-to-end

Data Analyst / Senior System Engineer

Mercedes-Benz · Bengaluru, India

Nov 2020 — Feb 2023

  • Built global Power BI dashboard centralizing KPIs for 200+ users with real-time monitoring
  • Cut manual reporting by 75% and reduced month-end effort from 8 days to 2 days
  • Integrated Microsoft Teams and role-based access control

Data Analyst Intern

Vertex Plus Pvt. Ltd. · Jaipur, India

May 2020 — Oct 2020

  • Built classification models to distinguish smart vs non-smart vehicles; drove 13% increase in accessories sales

Open Source & Projects

Docling — IBM Research

Open Source Contributor · Nov 2025 — Present

Implemented configuration flag to disable ASR timing metadata (GitHub issue #2564 and PR #2622), reducing log noise and streamlining batch transcription pipelines.

EvalAI Support Assistant (RAG)

Open Source Contributor · Aug 2025 — Oct 2025

Built AI RAG chatbot answering questions from EvalAI docs. Deployed on Hugging Face Spaces with GitHub Actions auto-indexing (GitHub) — reduced support tickets by 20%.

Article Summaries Assistant

Independent Contributor · June 2025 — July 2025

Streamlit app using OpenAI GPT models to generate abstractive summaries of long articles; built frontend and integration logic (GitHub).

Leadership & Mentoring

Google Summer of Code (CloudCV) — Organization Mentor

California, USA · May 2024 — Present

  • 2025: Guided contributor to streamline EvalAI usage with zero-to-setup guides, docs, and tutorials, improving onboarding and reducing challenge-support burden.
  • 2024: Mentored automation for expired submission cleanups (SQS), right-sized ECS, added admin actions, and tuned SQS retention/auto-cancel—lowering AWS costs and manual ops.

Cuemath — Coding Program Instructor

Jaipur, India · May 2021 — Sep 2022

  • Python & ML Curriculum Development: Designed and taught Python & ML curriculum with step-by-step guides; maintained a focused, supportive learning environment and iterated through continuous feedback.

Skills

NLP / GenAI

LLMs, RAG, Prompt Engineering, Sentiment Analysis, Text Classification, Document Parsing, MCP

Languages

Python, JavaScript

Modeling

XGBoost, Random Forest, Logistic Regression, KNN, Clustering

Frameworks

HuggingFace, Langchain, Transformers, Django, Flask, Pandas, Gradio

Cloud & DevOps

AWS, Google Cloud, Docker

Tools

Git, Power BI, Travis CI

Education & Certifications

Rajasthan Technical University

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

Agg. 78.08% (top 5%) with Honors · 2016 — 2020

Machine Learning, NLP, Data & Visual Analytics, Algorithms, DBMS

Certifications

Get in Touch

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