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Akshath Yennam

CS student at Imperial College London. I build backend systems by day, and compilers, operating systems, and AI agents by night — mostly on purpose._

currently interning at Man Group · London
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Akshath Yennam
$ cat about.txt

About

I'm a CS student at Imperial College London, currently interning as a software engineer in Front Office Engineering at Man Group and moonlighting as a backend engineer at Pulpoo, a startup building custom AI agents for workplace delegation and productivity. I like the unglamorous parts of software — pipelines, observability, the plumbing under the dashboard — the parts you only notice when they fail.

Outside of work I have an ever-growing backlog of side projects I swear I'll finish, and volunteer building software for a meal-delivery charity — so my hobbies feel slightly less self-indulgent.

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Projects

06 repositories, sorted newest first.

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$ cat wacc_compiler.scala

WACC Compiler

Jan – Mar 2026

A full compiler for WACC (a C-like language) in Scala, from lexing through AArch64 codegen, extended with a CFG-based optimisation pipeline (constant propagation, dead code elimination) and a graph-colouring register allocator with multiple spill heuristics.

ScalaAArch64CompilersRegister AllocationPrivate Repo
Source private — university-owned
$ git log --all --graph --chronological

Timeline

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EDUCATION
Expected 2028
graduating with MEng Computing
Imperial College London
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  • +Still compiling.
WORK
Jun 2026 – Sep 2026
Software Engineering Intern @ Man Group
London, UK · current
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  • +Built data lineage + declarative data-quality checks across ~100 ETL pipelines
  • +Event-driven on Kafka, checks executed on Ray inside an isolated Kubernetes namespace
ACHIEVEMENT
Jun 2026
First Class Honours
Imperial College London
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  • +Achieved a First Class honours for Year 2 of my MEng Computing degree.
VOLUNTEER
Apr 2026 – Present
Technology Consultant @ Heavenly Joy Foundation
Meal-delivery charity · Hyderabad
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  • +Built a full-stack ops platform — field-agent app, admin dashboard, fraud-detection layer
WORK
Jan 2026 – Present
Backend Engineer (Part-time) @ Pulpoo
Remote
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  • +Extracted a reusable omnichannel customer-support core from a production system
  • +Built the agent memory layer for a live Samsung Mexico deployment, cutting inference cost 30%
WORK
Jul – Sep 2025
AI Engineering Intern @ ValueLabs
Hyderabad, India
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  • +Rebuilt a JD-to-resume semantic search system on Qdrant, cutting query latency ~90s to ~6s (15x)
  • +Built a real-time GPT-Realtime voice interviewer with a multi-agent, phase-by-phase architecture
ACHIEVEMENT
Jun 2025
First Class Honours
Imperial College London
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  • +Achieved a First Class honours for Year 1 of my MEng Computing degree.
EDUCATION
2024
enrolled at Imperial College London
MEng Computing · First Class (Yr 1 & 2 so far)
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  • +Coursework: Algorithms & Data Structures, Operating Systems, Machine Learning, Probability & Statistics, Software Engineering, Linear Algebra
ACHIEVEMENT
2024
Valedictorian
High School
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  • +Was honoured to be the valedictorian for my graduating class of 2024 at Sancta Maria, Hyderabad.
WORK
Jul – Aug 2023
Intern @ ValueLabs
Hyderabad, India
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  • +First introduction to ML: basic regression and clustering models, a sentiment-analysis project, and an early CNN image classifier
$ cat experience.log

Work Experience

diffs from four codebases I've shipped into.

~/experience/man-group $ cat summary.diff

Software Engineering Intern

@ Man Group
Jun 2026 – Sep 2026active now
London, UK
  • +Implemented data lineage emission across ~100 Investment Analytics ETL pipelines, wiring them into the firm's DataHub platform and replacing bespoke per-pipeline code with a reusable onboarding pattern.
  • +Built declarative data-quality checks (freshness, completeness, statistical anomaly detection) running at every ETL load step, catching issues before they reach client-facing dashboards.
  • +Folded lineage and data-quality into a config-driven pipeline base class, so future pipelines inherit both by default with no extra setup.
  • +Architected the system event-driven on Kafka, with checks executed on Ray clusters inside an isolated Kubernetes namespace.
~100
ETL pipelines instrumented
stack: Kafka · Kubernetes · Ray · DataHub · Python
~/experience/pulpoo $ cat summary.diff

Backend Engineer, Part-time

@ Pulpoo
Jan 2026 – Presentactive now
Remote
  • +Architected and extracted a reusable omnichannel customer-support platform core from a production system, with an overlay layer letting client-specific workflows build against one core interface without forking it.
  • +Designed and deployed a scalable omnichannel memory layer for real-time AI agents in a live Samsung Mexico deployment, gating model downgrades on eval results to cut inference cost 30% with no regression.
  • +Cut live response latency 70% by moving memory extraction and knowledge-graph (Neo4j) writes off the synchronous path into an async job queue.
  • +Built an evaluation and observability layer (prompt versioning, regression testing, per-agent cost tracking), taking the system from prototype to a production-ready v1 used in real customer interactions.
70%
faster response latency
stack: LLM Agents · Neo4j · Observability
~/experience/valuelabs $ cat summary.diff

AI Engineering Intern

@ ValueLabs
Jul 2025 – Sep 2025
Hyderabad, India
  • +Rebuilt a JD-to-resume semantic search system on the Qdrant vector database, cutting query response times from ~90s to ~6s — a 15x speed-up — through caching and search-parameter tuning.
  • +Built a hybrid retrieval pipeline combining vector and keyword search with multi-query rewriting and reciprocal rank fusion, improving retrieval quality for a sales-meeting assistant.
  • +Built a real-time voice interviewing agent on GPT-Realtime with a multi-agent, phase-by-phase architecture for context-aware handoffs.
  • +Implemented prompt engineering and guardrails to keep live interviews on-topic, on-tone, and hallucination-free.
15×
faster semantic search
stack: Vector Search · Qdrant · Retrieval
~/experience/valuelabs-2023 $ cat summary.diff

Intern

@ ValueLabs
Jul 2023 – Aug 2023
Hyderabad, India
  • +Got an early introduction to machine learning, training basic regression and clustering models.
  • +Explored transformers and NLP, building a sentiment-analysis project and a text-classification project on unlabelled data.
  • +Took a first look at computer vision — learned how CNNs work and built a simple image classifier.
stack: Machine Learning · Python · Computer Vision
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Volunteering

meal-delivery.service
Heavenly Joy Foundationmeal-delivery.service — Technology Consultant
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/heavenly-joy.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since 2026-04-01; ago
Docs: none. it's volunteer work, not documentation work.
+Designed a fraud-detection layer — location verification, photo-authenticity checks, and anomaly detection — so leadership can trust field data without manual audits.
+Added role-based permissions and an audit trail to support accountability as the charity expands to more villages and staff.
+Built the field-agent mobile app and admin dashboard end-to-end on a shared real-time data layer.
+Architected the platform to scale from a single-location operation to a multi-village model with no rework of the core.
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Skills

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languages
PythonCC++ScalaHaskellJavaKotlinTypeScriptJavaScriptSQL
systems & infrastructure
KubernetesKafkaRayDockerLinuxCI/CDGit
data & frameworks
PostgreSQLNeo4jRedisQdrantPyTorchLangGraphReactNode.js
Akshath Yennam
Backend engineering, systems programming, applied AI. Currently at Man Group & Pulpoo.
© 2026 Akshath Yennam. Built with too much caffeine.psst — there's a terminal in the corner.