Akshit.RamPershad Résumé ↓
AI Engineer · Cambrian Lab, San Francisco

HI, I AM AKSHIT

I build

I currently work as an AI Engineer at Cambrian Lab in San Francisco, where I architect hybrid-retrieval systems, calibrate vector search pipelines, and build LLM orchestration workflows for enterprise supply-chain and data operations. Previously, I delivered a secure enterprise RAG platform at 22nd Century Technology, built spatial data pipelines and ML site-ranking engines at Surge Infotech, and led product and data analytics for UKG's enterprise SaaS platform. Across these roles, I've consistently worked at the intersection of data, analytics, and engineering—turning complex, high-volume enterprise data into systems that enable faster and more confident decisions. Today, that experience shapes my focus on building agentic AI and retrieval systems that are not only powerful, but calibrated, auditable, and trusted in real-world environments. And after all that engineering, I still believe there's one problem best left distinctly human: figuring out what everyone wants to eat.

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Akshit Rampershad

The impact

Not what I touched — what changed because I was there. Every number below is tied to a specific system I shipped.
What changed where I worked— before and after, per role
5 roles · 6 years
Supplier change notice → part match → downstream impact trace
2 hours10 seconds
0False auto-confirmations in 100+ validation runs
Cambrian Lab · 29+ notices a day, now automated
Assembling a federal or state proposal draft
7 daysunder 4 hours
88%Sustained weekly adoption, 25+ users
22nd Century · across 20+ proposals
Scoring land parcels for buildability against zoning rules
Manual, one by one50M+ scored
34%Faster executive planning cycles
Surge Infotech · 72% model accuracy
Finding where 10,000+ enterprise users abandoned onboarding
Nobody knew+29% conversion
94%Sprint delivery rate across 4 teams
UKG · +25% trial-to-paid, 2× adoption in 12 months
What I've built on my own— AI systems, and what they proved
4 systems · 3 live
4
AI systems shipped
Three you can open and use right now; one published as a reference design with the status stated plainly.
PatchProof · IncidentLab · SpecForge · CYBER-GPT
12
Agents orchestrated
Across two multi-agent systems, with routing and planning genuinely decided by the model, not hardcoded.
IncidentLab (5) · SpecForge (7)
100%
Open source
Every system above is public: architecture docs, benchmark results and code, not just a screenshot.
MIT licensed on GitHub
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Experience

Five industries in six years. The same pattern every time: someone hands me a messy, high-volume problem — here's what I built and what changed.
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AI Engineer
San Francisco, CA
May 2026 — Present
Supply Chain
Problem
29+ supplier change notices arriving every day. Each one needed someone to work out which parts it affected and what else broke downstream — two hours of an engineer's time per notice.
Built
A matching system that finds the right part four different ways at once — exact, fuzzy, prefix and vector search — then scores how confident it is and auto-approves only the clear cases, routing anything ambiguous to a human reviewer. Plus a recursive where-used engine that traces every downstream assembly affected.
Technical detail
Four manufacturing fields embedded with text-embedding-3-small (1536-d) into a unified cosine Qdrant collection, with keyword payload indexes scoping HNSW top-K before an LLM ranking pass. A 3-band score+margin policy gates auto-confirmation. The where-used engine uses parent-traversal graph algorithms with cycle-detection guards, automating BOM impact analysis in SAP.
Result
2 hr → 10 sec per notice0.36s on 70K+ parts0 false auto-confirmations
Data Engineer / AI Solutions Delivery
McLean, VA
Sept 2025 — Mar 2026
Federal & State
Problem
Multi-million-dollar government proposals were being written by hand, seven days a draft, while the answers sat in 20,000 past documents nobody could search.
Built
A search system over every proposal the company had ever won, so writers could pull grounded, relevant drafts in minutes instead of days. I led the architecture across four teams — and wrote the runbooks and ran the training sessions, because a tool nobody adopts isn't delivered.
Technical detail
Hybrid ingestion via Python, PySpark and Graph API into a 1,024-dim Qdrant store using BGE-Large-EN-v1.5 embeddings with section-aware chunking. A LlamaIndex pipeline narrows 30 candidates to 8 through 5-field metadata filtering, vector search and cross-encoder reranking, feeding LangChain orchestration. Validated on a held-out benchmark of 20 proposal queries.
Result
7 days → under 4 hours75%+ hit rate on held-out benchmark88% weekly adoption, 25+ users
Data Engineer / AI Practitioner
Boston, MA
Sept 2024 — Sept 2025
Smart Cities
Problem
Deciding whether a plot of land was worth building on was being done parcel by parcel, by hand — across 50 million records.
Built
Geospatial pipelines feeding a model that scores buildability automatically, with quality gates at every stage so bad data can't quietly reach the model — plus a reporting layer that turned pipeline metrics into summaries executives could act on.
Technical detail
Databricks AutoML + MLflow for the site-suitability model; FastAPI extraction services into AWS S3 using Auto Loader for incremental file discovery and schema inference, with DLT for governed ingestion. A Bronze/Silver/Gold Medallion architecture on Databricks LakeFlow with automated schema evolution and real-time validation gates.
Result
50M+ records ingested72% model accuracy34% faster planning cycles
Graduate Research Assistant
Tampa, FL
Dec 2022 — May 2024
Cybersecurity
Problem
Security tooling only recognises attacks it has seen before. For a genuinely new one it returns nothing — leaving the analyst alone exactly when the stakes are highest.
Built
A reference design for generating incident-response playbooks from past incidents and live threat intelligence — including the privacy and compliance controls needed before any of it could touch real security data.
Technical detail
Five components: internal incident history, open-source threat intel feeds, MITRE ATT&CK mappings, a foundation LLM layer and an analyst chat interface, unified into one retrieval flow. Defined GDPR/CCPA controls governing LLM use on sensitive SOC data, and mapped three adoption blockers — data scarcity, fine-tuning cost, model explainability — each to a named mitigation.
Result
14-week practitioner study3 blockers → named mitigationsMIT-licensed open repo
Business Data Analyst
India
Oct 2020 — Aug 2022
Enterprise SaaS
Problem
After an acquisition, UKG TALK was losing users during onboarding across 10,000+ enterprise accounts — and nobody could say where they were dropping off.
Built
SQL funnel analysis and Python cohort segmentation that located the exact drop-off points, defect dashboards that let four teams unblock each other, and executive reporting that put campaign returns in front of leadership in real time.
Technical detail
JIRA defect tracking dashboards monitoring production and staging issues across 4 cross-functional teams, lifting phased sign-offs 43% at a 94% sprint delivery rate. Tableau and Power BI dashboards using advanced parameters and calculated fields for real-time campaign ROI and segment conversion in executive quarterly reviews.
Result
+29% premium conversion+25% trial-to-paid2× adoption in 12 months
02

Products

Four AI systems I designed and shipped end to end. Each one measured against something it could fail — including the one where the benchmark went against me.
4 systems built3 live you can open2 benchmark harnesses100% open source
API GovernanceLive

PatchProof

The fix that passes tests and still breaks you.

When a service you depend on quietly changes its API — what engineers call contract drift — the obvious fix often passes every test and still corrupts your data. PatchProof proposes the repair, then refuses to apply it until a verification gate proves the fix preserves what the integration used to do. Tested against 71 real breaking changes mined from three years of Stripe's published API history.

71/71
Naive fixes unsafe
0/71
Unsafe once gated
Repairs with LLM
The tradeoff the benchmark measures
A Groq-hosted LLM reasoner roughly doubles correct auto-repairs over heuristics alone — 7/27 → 14/27 solvable cases — but costs some safety margin doing it. The harness reports both numbers rather than only the flattering one, because anyone deciding whether to trust this needs the cost, not just the gain.
Incident ResponseLive

IncidentLab

I tested my own architecture. It lost.

Five specialist agents — Triage, Logs, Metrics, Code and Knowledge — investigate a production incident in parallel, gather real evidence, and argue toward a root cause. A fixed formula, never the model's own opinion of itself, decides whether the answer is trustworthy or needs a human. Built on LangGraph, and it ships with the benchmark that asks whether all five agents were ever necessary. They mostly weren't, and I published that.

5
Evidence agents
78%
Evidence recall
100%
Single agent too
The result that went against me
On the disclosed 6-incident set: a direct LLM call scored 0% root-cause accuracy with zero evidence. Single-agent and multi-agent both hit 100%. Multi-agent's only real edge was evidence recall — 78% vs 72% — from cross-source merging. If I'd shipped only the headline you'd believe five agents were necessary. They weren't, and the harness that proves it is in the repo.
Product DeliveryLive

SpecForge

Product spec in, engineering backlog out.

Turns a raw product spec into user stories, features and engineering tasks — the week of grunt work between "we've decided to build this" and "the team can start." Seven cooperating agents, where the routing and planning decisions are genuinely made by the model rather than hardcoded, with a keyword fallback only if the call fails. Retry-with-backoff keeps a free-tier deployment reliable under real rate limits, not just in a demo.

7
Cooperating agents
Resilient
Retry + step-through
Why the routing is genuinely model-made
Plenty of "agentic" systems hardcode a router and still call it agentic. Here the routing and planning agents make real model calls (Groq-hosted Llama) to decide what runs next; a keyword heuristic exists purely as a fallback if that call fails. The distinction matters if you're evaluating whether someone understands what they actually built.
Cybersecurity · ResearchProposal

CYBER-GPT

For the attack that has no precedent.

Security tools work by matching today's attack against patterns they've seen before. For a genuinely novel incident there's no pattern to match — and that's exactly when the analyst is on their own. A five-component design that generates response playbooks from incident history, live threat feeds and MITRE ATT&CK mappings instead of waiting for a signature to match.

5
Component design
MIT
Open-sourced
Honest status: a design, not a deployment
CYBER-GPT is a research proposal and reference architecture published from a 14-week study with practitioners — not a running system. It's here because the design work and the privacy analysis are real, and because naming the difference matters more than padding the list.
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Skills & Credentials

What I work with, what I've trained in, and where I've led. The tools change fast in this field — staying current is part of the job.
What I work with— the stack I use day to day
8 areas
LLM & Agentic AI
OpenAI · Anthropic Claude · Gemini · LLM Orchestration · Agentic Workflows · Multi-Agent Systems · MCP
RAG & Retrieval
Hybrid Retrieval · Semantic & Vector Search · Embeddings · Reranking · Qdrant · HNSW/ANN
AI Evaluation
LLM & Retrieval Evaluation · Confidence Scoring · Groundedness · Error Analysis · Human-in-the-Loop
AI Engineering
Python · FastAPI · REST APIs · LangChain · LlamaIndex · Prompt Engineering
Data Engineering
PySpark · SQL · Databricks · Delta Lake · ETL/ELT · Medallion Architecture · Data Quality
Cloud & Platforms
AWS · S3 · EC2 · Snowflake · Docker · Git/Bitbucket
ML & Analytics
MLflow · Databricks AutoML · Machine Learning · Tableau · Power BI
Solution Engineering
Solution Architecture · Technical Design · Requirements Engineering · AI Product Delivery
Certifications— verified coursework, newest first
16 · 2024—2026
Leadership & Recognition— outside the job description
4
Leadership
2023USFData Science Club
University of South Florida
Recognition
2022UKGExceptional Performer Award
UKG
2021UKGTechnical Excellence Award
UKG
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Education

Where the analytics foundation came from — a business-analytics master's on top of a computer-science degree, which is why I tend to ask what a system is for before asking how to build it.
University of South Florida
MS, Business Analytics & Information Systems
Aug 2022 — May 2024
GITAM University
BS, Computer Science & Engineering
Aug 2016 — July 2020
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References

What three people who actually managed me had to say about working with me.

Akshit thrives when tackling complex, ambiguous technical challenges in the AI space. His expertise in metadata filtering, indexing, and pipeline orchestration, combined with his drive for end-to-end execution was key to delivering high-value enterprise AI solutions.

Sr. Vice President · 22nd Century Technology

Directing Akshit on our Urban AI initiative showed me firsthand his depth as both a Data Engineer and AI Practitioner. He built robust Medallion architectures and high-throughput pipelines that transformed millions of complex spatial records into commercial-ready AI solutions.

President · Surge Infotech

Akshit's ability to bridge the gap between complex data insights and engineering execution was essential for our team on UKG Talk. His analytical rigour and proactive approach in unblocking cross-functional dependencies kept our engineering workflows running seamlessly.

Sr. Software Engineering Manager · UKG
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