Akshay Jain

Akshay Jain is a Software Engineer with extensive experience in developing innovative solutions across various high-profile organizations. Currently employed at Old Mission since November 2022, Akshay previously held the position of Software Engineer II at Amazon from May 2020 to November 2022, where a notable achievement included the development of a full-stack AWS tool suite that significantly improved the resolution time for Alexa Speech Recognition misrecognitions. Earlier roles include contributions as a Machine Learning Undergraduate Research Assistant at UNC NLP Lab, where research led to a publication at a prestigious conference, and as a Machine Learning Research Intern at IBM Research, improving existing models by 30%. Internship experience at Sandia National Laboratories included enhancing workflows for atmospheric modeling and parallelizing climate model algorithms, while earlier internships focused on developing applications for cancer detection and other software engineering tasks. Akshay holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 2020.