About Akhil

I like work that holds complexity and clarity at the same time.

I'm a Purdue student double‑majoring in Computer Science and Data Science with a 4.0 GPA. I split my time between founding‑ engineer work at Mutually, product engineering at Flow, and microscopy research in Prabhakar Lab, with teaching and data work grounding everything.

Purdue CS + Data Science · 4.0 GPAFounding Engineer · MutuallySoftware Engineer · FlowUndergraduate Research · Prabhakar LabSummer 2026 · Li Group · PINNs
Snapshot

Education

B.S. Computer Science & Data Science

Purdue University · 2023–2027 · 4.0 GPA

Roles

Founding engineer, product engineer, researcher, and teaching assistant.

Where

Mutually, Flow, Prabhakar Lab, Purdue DataMine + Cisco.

Through-line

Treating code, data, and research as one practice instead of separate lanes.

Education

Purdue as a place to practice systems thinking.

Double‑majoring in Computer Science and Data Science means moving between proofs, systems programming, and statistical thinking, then pulling them back together when I build things outside class.

Purdue University

B.S. Computer Science & Data Science

2023 — 2027 · GPA 4.0

Systems & core CS

OOP, Computer Architecture, Systems Programming, Algorithms.

Data & information

Information Systems, data pipelines, and statistical tooling.

Professional timeline

One thread through startups, research, and teaching.

Instead of a list of disconnected roles, this timeline shows how founding‑engineer work, product engineering, microscopy research, and teaching all reinforce each other.

May 2026 — Aug 2026

Research

Li Group

Summer research on Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), with a focus on optimization where physics constraints meet learned representations.

PINNsOptimizationNeural networksPhysics-informed ML

2025 — Present

Founding Engineer

Mutually

Bloomington, IN

Early engineer on Mutually's first production release, working on cross‑platform UI, Supabase/Postgres models, and recommendation flows that tie event ingestion to a ranked feed.

React NativeExpoSupabasePostgreSQLKerasProduct infra

2025 — Present

Software Engineer

Flow

Remote

Building rider and driver experiences for rideshare, with a focus on onboarding, auth, and analytics that reflect real driving patterns instead of abstract dashboards.

TypeScriptReactProduct engineeringAnalytics

2025 — Present

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Prabhakar Lab · Purdue University

Developing microscopy analysis pipelines where segmentation, tracking, and labeling make image sequences queryable like datasets.

PythonCellposeSegmentationTrackingData pipelines

Spring 2025

Teaching Assistant · CS 240

Purdue University

Guided students through systems‑level C (pointers, memory, and debugging) and helped them get comfortable with code that runs close to the metal.

CSystems programmingMentorship

Spring 2024

Data Science Researcher

Cisco through Purdue DataMine

Worked on dashboards and forecasting for Cisco, turning business questions into data pipelines, models, and visual narratives stakeholders could act on.

PythonPlotly/DashXGBoostRandom ForestForecasting

Jul — Aug 2022

Intern

Leadzen.ai

Mumbai, India · Remote

Interned with the webdev team on front‑end website development, using Elementor and JetEngine to extend functionality and implementing custom JavaScript and CSS to update the pricing section with more engaging visual effects.

WordPressHTML5CSSJavaScriptUI design
Research

Microscopy as a data problem, not just an imaging problem.

In Prabhakar Lab at Purdue, I work on microscopy time‑lapse data where segmenting, tracking, and labeling cells turns raw videos into structured signals you can actually analyze.

Prabhakar Lab · Undergraduate Research

I built a microscopy analysis pipeline in Python using tools like Cellpose for segmentation and tracking, then exported labeled datasets for downstream analysis. It sits at the intersection of scientific questions and production‑grade data handling.

Acquire

time-lapse microscopy sequences

Segment + track

using learned models

Label + analyze

turn trajectories into insight

Projects

Personal projects that started with real student needs.

StudyBuddy

A full‑stack study planner that treats time as something you design, not just fill. It combines routines, tasks, and focus sessions with simple analytics for how days actually go.

React · Tailwind CSS · Node.js · PostgreSQL

ClassClear

An experiment in syllabus ingestion and structure. It turns unstructured course documents into searchable timelines and requirements so students can see their semester at a glance.

Express.js · PostgreSQL · Federated Auth · LLM APIs

Technical skills

A toolkit that spans systems, data, and product work.

Languages

Java, Python, C/C++, SQL (Postgres), JavaScript, HTML/CSS.

Frameworks

React, React Native, Node.js, Flask, JUnit, WordPress.

Tools

Git, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, VS Code, PyCharm, IntelliJ.

Data & ML

Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, classical ML (XGBoost, Random Forest), and analytics pipelines that connect models back to decisions.

Currently exploring

Questions I keep coming back to right now.

Systems & product

  • · How early‑stage products can feel coherent even while they move fast.
  • · How to design analytics that actually change behavior instead of just reporting it.

Data, research, and signals

  • · How to make scientific data pipelines easier to reason about and reuse.
  • · Better ways to represent listening history and time‑series behavior so they feel human.

Summer 2026 · Li Group

Research on Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), focused on optimization where physics constraints meet learned representations.