Software Engineer /Machine Learning

AAKASH SIRICILLA

Jersey City, NJ +1-551-***-**** ******.***********@*****.*** LinkedIn Github Portfolio SUMMARY

Software Engineer with 3+ years of experience delivering high-impact Python solutions and scalable cloud-native systems. Proven ability to boost system performance and streamline deployments, reducing times by up to 90%. Demonstrated expertise in building reliable, large-scale applications and an eagerness to leverage Python and adapt quickly to capital market frameworks like Quartz. EDUCATION

New Jersey Institute Of Technology Sep 2023 - May 2025 Master of Science, Computer Science Newark, NJ

• Coursework: Algorithms and Data Structures, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Database Systems Kommuri Pratap Reddy Institute Of Technology Aug 2019 - Jun 2023 Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science Hyderabad, India

• Coursework: OOPS using C++, Operating Systems, Network Security, Distributed Systems, Computer Vision WORK EXPERIENCE

New Jersey Institute of Technology Aug 2024 - May 2025 Research Assistant Newark, NJ, USA

• Designed and trained LSTM and CNN models in Python (using PyTorch) that lifted anomaly detection accuracy from 78% ’ 93%.

• Engineered data pipelines for 120K+ SIP messages, reducing preprocessing time by 35% and doubling model training throughput.

• Built real-time performance dashboards for precision, recall, and F1-scores, cutting debugging cycles by 30%.

• Standardized workflows with Dockerized ML environments, reducing onboarding time by 70% and ensuring reproducibility.

• Co-authored a research manuscript and contributed open-sourced codebases, strengthening NJIT’s research footprint.

• Mentored graduate students on data engineering best practices, model optimization, and research reproducibility.

• Coordinated with professors and peers in weekly Agile-inspired standups, aligning experiments with publication timelines. Cognier Insights May 2022 - Jul 2023

Software Engineer Hyderabad, India

• Partnered with product owners to gather requirements and translated them into modular microservice architectures using UML and sequence diagrams.

• Spearheaded development of retail analytics dashboards with Spring Boot + React + PostgreSQL, boosting reporting speed by 55% for 10K+ daily users.

• Migrated a monolithic platform into containerized microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) on AWS EC2, cutting deployment time from 45 minutes ’ 5 minutes.

• Built and secured RESTful APIs for pricing, inventory, and user management, improving reliability by 40% during high-traffic events.

• Embedded Spring Security + JWT authentication, reducing unauthorized access incidents by 90%.

• Integrated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitHub Actions, automating builds, testing, and deployments, raising release frequency by 4x.

• Collaborated with QA to design test plans and regression suites, improving release quality by 35% and cutting post-release defects by 40%.

• Drove Agile ceremonies and retrospectives, achieving a 98% sprint completion rate and earning the “Innovator Award” for engineering process improvements.

Across The Globe Sep 2021 - Mar 2022

Backend Developer Intern Hyderabad, India

• Contributed to backend APIs in Java + Spring Boot, building 5+ REST endpoints for authentication, order, and reporting flows.

• Tuned PostgreSQL queries and indexing, reducing query execution times by 30% and improving system response by 20%.

• Enhanced test coverage from 40% ’ 70% with JUnit unit and integration tests, uncovering hidden production bugs early.

• Applied Git branching and peer review practices, ensuring maintainable code and smooth version control.

• Supported migration from a monolithic codebase to a modular backend, laying the foundation for microservices adoption.

• Collaborated in Agile sprints and daily standups, helping improve sprint velocity and reduce backlog by 15%.

• * Documented API contracts and participated in SDLC checkpoints, gaining early exposure to professional engineering workflows. PROJECTS

Turtleback Zoo Management System Laravel, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript

• Developed a role-based management system with JWT authentication, reducing manual admin work by 40%.

• Optimized MySQL queries and caching, improving performance by 25% and increasing user engagement by 30%.

• Automated daily reports and ticketing workflows, reducing errors and freeing up staff hours. Decentralized Milk Supply Chain Platform Python, Django, Solidity, AWS

• Designed and deployed a blockchain solution for 200+ farmers, eliminating middlemen and ensuring secure payments.

• Containerized services on AWS with 99.9% uptime, reducing discrepancies by 40% and improving trust across the supply chain.

• Integrated Web3 smart contracts with Django, enabling transparent, tamper-proof transactions. Real-Time House Price Forecasting Tool Flask, scikit-learn, React

• Built a Random Forests prediction API (R = 0.90) with sub-200ms latency for 100K+ records.

• Integrated into a React + Flask interface, lowering estimation error by 20% and enabling cloud-based scalability.

• Designed data visualizations to provide real-estate analysts with actionable market insights. TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Programming Languages: Python, SQL, Java, JavaScript, Typescript, C/C++

• Backend & Databases: Flask, gRPC, Redis, Nginx, Kafka, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB

• Web & Application Development: HTML, CSS, React.js, Node.js, Express.js, Spring Boot

• ML/Data Engineering: Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Matplotlib, Seaborn

• Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EC2, RDS), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Azure

• Tools & Platforms: Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, Tableau, Postman, VS Code

• Industry Expertise: Capital Market, Global Market, Quartz CERTIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified Developer - Associate

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

• Secure Full-Stack Development & API Security (workshops)

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