Akshey Singhal · Ottawa, Canada

I build AI systems that survive production.

AI & machine learning engineer with 9+ years building agentic AI, LLM pipelines, and production ML across insurance, cybersecurity, finance, and energy. I also teach — 1,400+ professionals mentored into the field. I own ambiguous problems end to end and weigh reliability, latency, and cost as heavily as accuracy.

live · multi-agent orchestration
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Inference · down from 100ms
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Experience

Nine years, five industries,
one throughline: shipping.

Every role below ends with something running in production — not a notebook.

Data Scientist Applied Systems 2024 — Present
~90% prod accuracyGenAILangGraphInsurancePII Guardrails

Building agentic AI for insurance document intelligence. Shipped an LLM-powered extraction system that cut manual data entry by ~55%, and a multi-agent evaluation pipeline (LangGraph supervisor + LLM-as-a-Judge) verifying outputs at ~90% accuracy in production. Researched and benchmarked PII guardrail techniques to generate compliant few-shot examples from sensitive data.

Founding CTO Realswipe 2024 — 2025
Led 4 engineersLLM SearchRecommendationsLeadership

Co-founded an AI-powered real estate platform. Owned architecture end to end, built LLM-driven recommendation and semantic search, and led a team of 4 engineers from concept to launch.

ML Engineer Windscribe 2022 — 2024
100ms → 10msCybersecurityMLOpsAnomaly Detection

Sole ML engineer for a VPN serving millions. Shipped a malware domain classifier at 96% accuracy, optimized inference 100ms → 10ms, ran real-time anomaly detection across millions of DNS events, and owned the full MLOps stack — MLflow, Prefect, Docker, CI/CD, Prometheus.

Big Data Engineer RBC 2021 — 2022
FinanceSparkHadoop

Architected data ingestion and engineering systems for financial risk analytics at one of Canada's largest banks, using Hadoop, PostgreSQL, and PySpark.

Data Scientist Waterford Energy Services 2020 — 2021
15,000+ reports · −70%EnergyTime SeriesComputer Vision

Statistical modeling on vehicle telematics with Databricks + Azure, and a PyTorch document-layout model that automated text extraction from 15,000+ drilling reports, cutting processing time by 70%.

Earlier: AI/Data Engineer @ Alexsei · Graduate Researcher @ Saint Mary's (CNN object detection, 1M+ snapshots) · Data Analyst @ Momenttext (multilingual NLP retrieval) · Associate Engineer @ Finxera (financial data reconciliation)
Systems I've shipped

Built for the messy real world.

Production systems with real users, real constraints, and numbers I'll happily defend in an interview.

Agentic AI

Multi-Agent Evaluation Pipeline

LangGraph supervisor orchestrating specialized validation agents with LLM-as-a-Judge scoring — layered context checks against imperfect ground truth, in production.

accuracy ~90% · framework LangGraph
GenAI · Insurance

LLM Document Extraction

Automated field & header extraction from home and auto insurance documents — prompt engineering, hierarchical sub-prompting, and evaluation baked in.

manual entry −55% · quoting −45% time
Cybersecurity ML

Malware Domain Classifier

Multi-source feature fusion — lexical, geo-IP, WHOIS — classifying malicious domains for a VPN serving millions. Research published on the company blog.

accuracy 96% · inference 100→10ms
Streaming Detection

DNS Anomaly Detection

Real-time Isolation Forest + LOF pipelines over live DNS query streams, surfacing threat patterns and behavioral anomalies as they emerge.

scale millions of events
Privacy & Guardrails

PII Guardrail Research

Benchmarked confidentiality techniques for sensitive insurance data, then used the winner to generate anonymized few-shot examples that improved extraction accuracy.

outcome accuracy ↑ · compliant
Information Retrieval

Hybrid Search Engine

Text + vector retrieval combining TF-IDF, LSA, and BERT embeddings over Elasticsearch and FAISS, with inverted indexes and LSH for fast lookup.

stack BM25 + FAISS + BERT
Teaching & Mentorship

I don't just build AI.
I help others build it too.

I teach AI and emerging technologies as an Associate Professor at Lambton College — in person and online — where I redesigned the curriculum to industry standards so students graduate job-ready.

Through Great Learning, I mentor professionals in programs affiliated with MIT Professional Education and UT Austin's McCombs School of Business, and I coach 1-on-1 on Topmate, where I rank in the top 1% of creators in North America.

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Learners impacted
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Hours of mentorship
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Avg. mentor rating
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Topmate · North America
Toolkit

The stack behind the systems.

GenAI & Agents
LangChainLangGraphRAG Multi-Agent OrchestrationLLM-as-a-Judge Prompt EngineeringFAISSPinecone OpenAIGeminiHugging Face
Machine Learning
PythonGoPyTorchTensorFlow Scikit-LearnXGBoostNLP · SpaCy Anomaly DetectionComputer VisionStatistical Modeling
Data & MLOps
MLflowAirflowPrefect KafkaPySparkDatabricks DockerKubernetesCI/CD PrometheusSQL
Cloud
GCP · Document AIAWSAzureLinux
Education & Credentials

The foundation.

M.Sc

M.Sc., Computing & Data Analytics

Saint Mary's University
Halifax, NS · 2019 — 2020
MIT

Applied Data Science Program

MIT Professional Education
2022 — 2023
UT

PG Program, Data Science & Business Analytics

UT Austin · McCombs School of Business
2021 — 2022
B.E

B.E., Computer Science

Chitkara University
Punjab, India · 2013 — 2017
Certifications

Always learning.

Recognition

Signals along the way.

PUBLISHED ML Research
"Improving the Malware Filter with AI & Machine Learning" — documenting the research, feature engineering, and production deployment behind the 96% classifier.
Read on Control D blog →
3rd Place + People's Choice
Applied Innovation Hackathon 2024 — AI-powered auto-insurance policy comparison built with Google Gemini.
Runner Up — Service Canada
Address Enrichment for Integrity, a national government data challenge.
What people say

Trusted by teams and mentees.

"
Akshey was my mentor during my job search. He provided many useful resources, and often all he needed to do was point me in the right direction. I landed multiple offers this season — I highly recommend Akshey as a career mentor.
Ben ZhangData Scientist · mentee
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Akshey was diligent, hard working and a great team member. He performed exploratory and cluster analysis on a large, complex dataset, built an interactive dashboard, and documented everything. I would gladly work with him again and recommend him very highly on any data project.
Beata M.Tech Delivery Leader · manager
"
Akshey showed a lot of passion in learning about AI & ML and applying it to solve complex business problems. His experience helped us solve some of the toughest issues in the project. Immensely helpful and a great team player.
Gaganpreet SinghSenior Data Engineer · peer
Contact

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Always happy to connect — whether it's collaborating on AI projects, sharing knowledge, speaking, mentoring, or just a good conversation about agentic systems and where this field is heading.

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