Akhil Padma

Owned the complete lifecycle of an ML-driven recipe development pipeline for NPI — predicting Dye values and CP gloss from process parameters using Extra Trees and Random Forest models tuned via Optuna (R2 ≈ 0.70), from development through deployment. Contributing to an enterprise ServiceNow application for around 1 lakh TEPL employees — architected a two-layer intelligent search system with an NLP-powered AI query layer routing natural-language questions to internal LLMs via secure mid-server bridge. Built AI agents in ServiceNow Agent Studio connected to an engineered yield table, enabling natural-language yield queries across Ano, Band, Assembly, and overall factory performance.

AI/ML Engineer at TATA Electronics (2025-11 – 2026-07)

• Owned the complete lifecycle of an ML-driven recipe development pipeline for NPI — predicting Dye values and CP gloss from process parameters using Extra Trees and Random Forest models tuned via Optuna (R2 ≈ 0.70), from development through deployment.
• Contributing to an enterprise ServiceNow application for around 1 lakh TEPL employees — architected a two-layer intelligent search system with an NLP-powered AI query layer routing natural-language questions to internal LLMs via secure mid-server bridge.
• Built AI agents in ServiceNow Agent Studio connected to an engineered yield table, enabling natural-language yield queries across Ano, Band, Assembly, and overall factory performance.
• Engineered an end-to-end automated analytics pipeline (ETL) delivering real-time manufacturing performance metrics across 13 process stations and 400K+ records weekly, integrated into Grafana dashboards directly from raw station-level data.
• Built Tableau dashboards and integrated them into internal applications using JWT handshake authentication for secure, embedded reporting.

Founding AI/ML Engineer at HyperRoute PBRL Pvt Ltd (2024-05 – 2025-10)

• Developed a time-series AQI forecasting model for Hyderabad using Facebook Prophet, applied to public environmental data.
• Coordinated cross-functionally across app and web development teams as a founding-team connector between engineering workstreams.
• Evaluated and proposed AI-driven feature opportunities for the company's product roadmap.

B.Tech in Chemical Engineering – National Institute of Technology Calicut (2021-12 – 2025-06)