Hi, I'm Akhilesh!

Hi, I’m a software engineer with a strong passion for Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Distributed Systems, Database Internals, and Language Internals.

I joined Target's Relevancy Team as Senior Engineer where I build and optimize systems to solve complex relevancy challenges.

Before this, I contributed to Blibli.com's search platform, focusing on product rankings and developing efficient indexing and retrieval pipelines that powered their search engine at scale (20 Mn+ unique searches).

I read, (a lot). Follow me on goodreads, show me what you read too! Apart from the passion of engineering the softwares I have a keen interest in Running, Biking and Swimming. I often write about my athletic journey, sharing insights and experiences along the way.

I also enjoy diving deep into the engineering process and share my discoveries in weekly essays, where I reflect on everything from technical details to lessons learned.

• Attention Is All You Need
• ROSE: Robust Caches for Amazon Product Search
• Bkd-Tree: A Dynamic Scalable kd-Tree