Akshay Sharma
CTO & AI engineer — NLP, optimization, and compliance automation
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San Francisco, California
Joined April 2026
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Summary
AI product builder and engineer: Akshay combines applied NLP and ML engineering to build production systems that convert unstructured documents into structured, report-ready data and to operate AI-driven workflows (e.g., roles at Klarity and public work on Seer). github+2
Founder and CTO in energy compliance automation: As co-founder and CTO of Rimba, Akshay focused on applying AI to streamline industrial and energy compliance workflows—processing PDFs, metering and ERP data to reduce manual reporting work and audit risk. berkeley+2
Open-source contributor and optimization specialist: He has an active history contributing to Julia-based optimization tooling (DiffOpt.jl), documented through GSoC posts and community maintainer listings, indicating a strong grounding in convex optimization and developer community leadership. akshay326+1
Communicator and public technologist: Akshay maintains a technical blog, shares models and demos on Hugging Face, and is active on social channels to publish demos, open-source projects, and product updates. akshay326+2
Work
Education
Projects
Writing
Fine-tuning Microsoft’s Phi-2 Machine Learning Model with DPO
January 1, 2024Blog post describing fine-tuning Microsoft Phi-2 using DPO (Direct Preference Optimization) techniques.
Chaiverse: Quick Start Guide
January 1, 2024Short guide on submitting a model to Chaiverse (developer-focused quick start tutorial).
GSoC'20 - A summer full of optimization and Julia
August 1, 2020Final blog post for Google Summer of Code work summarizing milestones, contributions to differentiable optimization, and future improvements for DiffOpt.jl.
Hobbies
Exercise, daily walks, and experimenting with cooking. lbl
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