Akhil Reddy Danda

Software Engineer II @ Microsoft

Software Engineer II at Microsoft, building distributed storage infrastructure that powers global service routing and database topology on Azure โ€” DNS-driven topology discovery, cross-region Azure SQL migrations, and safe automated rollouts. On the side I train and fine-tune models on Hugging Face (JEPA-style world models, my healthcare model Laya) and teach a Reachy Mini robot to see and hear. Previously scaled systems at Amazon (100K+ req/sec) and HHA Medicine. MS in Computer Science, Texas A&M University.

Microsoft Ex-Amazon Distributed Systems Azure MS CS - Texas A&M GSoC 2026 Hugging Face

Beyond the Code

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Backend Engineering & Architecture

I love designing scalable backend systems โ€” microservices, distributed architectures, API design, and database optimization. Building reliable infrastructure that handles millions of requests is what drives me.

Microservices API Design System Design Scalable Architecture
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JEPA, World Models & Laya

My research obsession is world models โ€” Yann LeCun's JEPA idea that intelligence comes from predicting representations, not pixels. I train and fine-tune models on Hugging Face, mostly on healthcare data gathered from the open web, and I'm building Laya, my own healthcare model. Day to day that means vLLM for serving, vision-language models, and a lot of evals.

JEPA / World Models Hugging Face Fine-tuning vLLM Vision Models Healthcare Data
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Cricket Enthusiast

Cricket isn't just a sport for me - it's a passion. I play competitively and love the strategic depth of the game. From batting to fielding, every aspect excites me.

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Reachy Mini & Brook ๐Ÿ•

My main hobby: a Reachy Mini robot on my desk that I'm teaching to see and hear. I train its vision and audio models myself โ€” right now on video of my dog Brook, so Reachy can detect her, follow her, and react. It's equal parts robotics, computer vision, and pure fun. Read about the Brook project โ†’

Reachy Mini Vision Training Audio Video Detection Brook ๐Ÿ•

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Local audio transcription with AI summarization - 100% private, zero API costs

~10min for 1hr audio Whisper + Llama $0 forever
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Speech-to-text at cursor position - dual engine (Vosk + Whisper), 100% offline

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Professional Experience

Microsoft
Apr 2026 - Present

Software Engineer II

Redmond, WA

  • Building distributed storage infrastructure supporting global service routing and database topology
  • Designing DNS-driven topology discovery with caching, background refresh, failover handling and safe rollout mechanisms
  • Engineering Azure SQL infrastructure migrations across regions with configuration validation and production safeguards
  • Improving reliability and operational safety through automated topology resolution, validation, rollback, and deployment workflows
C#.NETAzureDistributed SystemsAzure SQLDNS
HHA Medicine
Jan 2023 - Mar 2026

Senior Software Engineer

Corpus Christi, TX

  • Built RAG systems with 40% improved relevance
  • Deployed GPT-4 clinical support for 50K+ daily decisions
  • Processing 100GB+ daily healthcare data
Python Azure ML LangChain GPT-4
Amazon
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023

Software Development Engineer

Seattle, WA

  • Built CNN models processing 500K+ daily images
  • Architected microservices handling 100K+ req/sec
  • Reduced latency by 65% and costs by 25%
Python AWS Kubernetes TensorFlow

Technical Expertise

5 years of hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies

Languages & Frameworks

C# / .NET
Python
TypeScript
Java
Go
FastAPI

Distributed Systems & Architecture

System Design CAP Theorem Microservices Load Balancing Service Mesh Event-Driven Architecture CQRS Consensus Algorithms Horizontal Scaling Sharding Replication gRPC Message Queues

Cloud & DevOps

Azure
AWS
Kubernetes
Docker
Terraform
CI/CD

Machine Learning & AI

TensorFlow
PyTorch
OpenCV
GPT-4 / LLMs
LangChain
RAG Systems

Education & Open Source

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Google Summer of Code 2026 โ€” Contributor

InVesalius (CTI Renato Archer) โ€” automatic timestamps for neuronavigation markers, syncing with EEG/EMG/TMS for neuroscience research

Mar 2026 โ€“ Present ยท Python ยท Medical Imaging
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Professional Certificate โ€” Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning

Stanford Continuing Studies

2026
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Master's in Computer Science

Texas A&M University

Dec 2021
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Bachelor's in Computer Science

SRM Institute of Technology, India

May 2019

Certifications

32 Professional Certifications

Databricks

Advanced Machine Learning Operations

MLOps, Machine Learning Operations

September 2025

Generative AI Fundamentals

Generative AI - Academy Accreditation

September 2025
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DeepLearning.AI (17 Certifications)

ACP: Agent Communication Protocol

IBM Research's BeeAI - Agents, RAG, LLM Serving

December 2025
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Agentic Knowledge Graph Construction

Neo4j - Knowledge Graphs, Embeddings, RAG

December 2025
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Build AI Apps with MCP Server

Box - Document Processing, Task Automation

December 2025
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Building Agentic RAG with LlamaIndex

LlamaIndex - Agents, RAG, Search

December 2025
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Building Code Agents with smolagents

Hugging Face - AI Safety, Task Automation

December 2025
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Building Live Voice Agents

Google ADK - Voice Agents

December 2025
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Building and Evaluating Data Agents

Snowflake - Data Agents

December 2025
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Building with Llama 4

Meta - MultiModal, NLP, Chatbots

December 2025
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Claude Code: Agentic Coding Assistant

Anthropic - AI Coding, LLMOps, RAG

December 2025
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Embedding Models: Architecture to Implementation

Vectara - Embeddings, Vector Databases

December 2025
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Evaluating AI Agents

Arize AI - Evaluation, MLOps, LLMOps

December 2025
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Governing AI Agents

Databricks - AI Governance

December 2025
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Long-Term Agentic Memory with LangGraph

LangChain - Agents, RAG, Vector DBs

December 2025
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Multi-vector Image Retrieval

Qdrant - Image Search, AI Coding

December 2025
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NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit

NVIDIA - Reliable Agents

December 2025
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Post-training of LLMs

UW & NexusFlow - Fine-Tuning, NLP

December 2025
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Semantic Caching for AI Agents

Redis - Caching, Agents

December 2025
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IBM

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

RPA, Process Automation

April 2024

LinkedIn Learning

Blockchain: Beyond the Basics

Advanced Blockchain Concepts

March 2022

Blockchain Basics

Blockchain Fundamentals

February 2022

Building Ethereum Blockchain App

Ethereum, Smart Contracts

February 2022

Strategic Thinking

Leadership, Strategy

February 2022

Coursera

Introduction to HTML and CSS

HTML, CSS, Web Development

October 2018 โ€ข ID: GJ8SBLKHZSLD
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Let's Connect!

Currently building distributed systems at Microsoft. Open to collaborations, speaking, and interesting side projects.