Akash GSS

Akash GSS

Software engineer in Chennai, TamilNadu, India, he/him/his

About

Software Engineer at Space and Time || Generative AI, Python, Flask, FastAPI, LLMs, Vector Databases || AIR 19 Reply Code Challenge'21 and AIR 304 Google Hashcode'21

Work Experience

2023 — Now

• Developed an enterprise-level English-to-SQL conversion service with Flask, FastAPI, and LLMs.

• Boosted SQL accuracy by 70% with Retrieval Augmented Generation - RAG and prompt engineering.

• Increased Text-to-SQL accuracy by 60% with MIT RapidFuzz through fuzzy matching for context.

• Streamlined OpenAPI documentation efforts by 80% with FastAPI ReDoc improving devrel efficiency.

2023 — 2023

• Streamlined debugging by logging 10,000+ calls/month in Azure CosmosDB and MongoDB.

• Developed and maintained JavaScript and Python SDKs, gaining 1000+ downloads/month

2021 — 2021
Remote

• Developed a comprehensive react-redux admin platform for a credit union, implementing advanced FrontEnd features including robust login form validation.

• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions, and efficient pagination for managing 1000+ customer details.

• Enhanced the platform's user experience and security for a bi-monthly user base of over 5000 users through state management and responsive design.

Projects

2024

• Lightweight multi-modal database for managing structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data

• Integrates SQL, document storage, and vector embeddings into a single platform

• Designed to mimic industry leaders like SurrealDB with flexible data management

• Suitable for light workloads requiring quick access to diverse data formats without complex system overhead

Awards

2024
$1000 USD Nominee in Crypto API Writing Competition from HackerNoon

Authored Bitcoin Ordinals Technical Guide, Recognized with $1,000 USD Prize Nomination by HackerNoon

2021
19th Rank in Reply Coding Challenge from Reply

Ranked 19th in Country and 145th globally among 3124 teams.

2021
304th Rank in Google HashCode from Google

Secured 304th Country rank, 1698th global rank, and 1st Rank among 119 teams within University.

2021
55th Rank in Hack The Mountains 2.0 from MLH

Ranked 55 among 500 teams in Hack The Mountains 2.0 organized by MLH

2021
9th Rank in Break the Code competition by BPPIMT from BPPIMT Institute

Ranked 9th among 500 participants in Break the Code contest organized by BPPIMT Institute on HackerEarth

2021
4th Rank in City Command Hackathon from NEC and Mitsubishi Corp

Ranked 4th among 1500 participants on HackerEarth organized by NEC and Mitsubishi corporation

Writing

2024

This blog talks about LLM Adversarial Attacks and various ways attackers maliciously prompt or trick LLMs to perform exploits and how you can safe-guard your LLM Models from such attacks.

2024

This blog talks about a potentially decentralized Artificial Intelligence Model powered by Bit-Torrent or a similar architecture called Petals

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2024

This blog talks about ZKML, a new kind of verifiable and trustless LLM based model.

2024

This blog talks about how Language Processing Units or LPUs developed by Groq INC can be used for the purpose of training LLMs faster.

2024

This blog talks about a new kind of LLM Model called 1-Bit LLM introduced by Microsoft.

2024

This blog details about Small Language Models, an alternative to Large Language Models.

2024

This blog talks about Prompt and Vendor Lock-Ins

2024

This blog details about a new type of algorithm used for generating embeddings for one of the OpenAI's embedding model which is novel in nature.

2024

This blog talks about the Optimistic Rollups and how they re used to enhance Ethereum's Security

2024

This blog talks about Bitcoin Ordinals [The alternative to NFTs for the Bitcoin ecosystem] in detail.

2024

This blog talks about the RootStock L2 which was responsible for introducing DApps to the Bitcoin blockchain ecosystem.

2024

This blog in detail highlights all of the major announcements, the future and features added to the Ethereum blockchain as a part of the DenCun Upgrade

2024

This blog talks about ZK Proofs and how they might be the solution for building verifiable blockchains.

2024

This blog details about the L2 built for Ethereum Devs by Ethereum Devs

2024

This blog details about the Polygon ZKEVM and how the polygon network has come up with it's own version of the Ethereum Virtual Machine.

2024

This blog talks about the ZKSync Era Network

2024

This blog talks about the Linea blockchain an upcoming L2 blockchain specific to developers

2024

This blog details about the StarkWare L2 Protoocl

2024

This blog details about the Mantle Network.

2024

This blog details about the bitcoin halving and what it means for the future

2024

This article breaks down what the XRP token is, what unique factors it brings about, the XRPL blockchain, and everything related to this token from its inception to how it is being adopted right now.

2024

This blog talks about the Aztec Protocol, an upcoming L2.

2024

This blog talks and differentiates between ZK SNARKs and ZK STARKs.

2024

This blog talks about the Omni Network, an upcoming L2 acting as the unifier for Rollups.

2024

This blog details about the Near Network and the protocol and how this blockchain is unique

2024

This blog talks about Arbitrum, the top L2 scaling solution for the Ethereum blockchain

2024

This blog talks about the Lightning Network, the Top L2 for Bitcoin

2024

This blog talks about the L2 Scaling solution for Bitcoin called Stacks.

2024

This blog talks about all of the L2 layer blockchains

2024

This blog details about ZK Rollups and their use-cases.

2024

This blog talks about the Optimism L2 blockchain

2024

This blog talks about the rise of the pudgy penguin NFT collection.

2024

This blog talks about the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm under the Swarm Intelligence Algorithm series and marks the end of the series.

2024

This blog talks about the Chicken Swarm Optimization Algorithm.

2024

This blog talks about the Ant colony Optimization algorithm under Swarm Intelligence.

2024

This blog talks about the Bee colony optimization algorithm which is under the swarm intelligence algorithm class.

2024

This blog talks about the Grey Wolf Optimization algorithm under the Swarm Intelligence algorithm series.

2024

This blog talks about the glowbug optimization algorithm under swarm intelligence algorithms.

2024

This blog talks about the Krill Herd Optimization algorithm, a sub-class under swarm intelligence.

2024

This blog talks about the moth flame optimization algorithm, a sub-algorithm under swarm intelligence algorithms.

2024

This blog talks about bacterial foraging algorithm in swarm intelligence.

2024

This blog talks about the cuckoo search swarm intelligence algorithm

2024

This marks the beginning of Swarm Intelligence based ML algorithms

2024

This blog details about Mistral LLMs usage of a Mixture of Experts which managed to bring out SOTA results.

2024

This blog details about the C2PA specification and how it can be used as a watermark for Generative AI based image and video generation platforms to identify deepfakes

2024

This blog talks about Cloudflare's API security fundamentals and best practices for the year of 2024.

2024

This blog talks about Open source Licensing rules which every developer would benefit from knowing about.

2024

This blog talks about Voronoi diagram, a geometric mathematical figure and concept and about it's use-cases

2024

This blog details about Generative Adversarial Networks

2023

This blog details about the death of a programming genius named Aaron Swartz who was also originally the first founder of Reddit!

2023

This post explores the system design of building an Online IDE

2023

This blog talks about Bit-Torrent a popular protocol used for distributing large files across networks

2023

This is a system design blog talking about GIPHY and how it rapidly serves GIFs.

2023

This is a blog talking about a lot of the magic commands in Python that are typically used in Jupyter Notebooks.

2022

This is a blog detailing how you can preview your localhost website and share it along using temporary URLs called Tunnels without having to immediately host it.

2021

This is a short and simple blog detailing how you can use better keywords on Google to find your desired results faster.

2021

This blog talks about how you can deploy your react application is less than 2 minutes using Cloudflare Pages.

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