Akshay Dahiya

Namaste! My name is Akshay Dahiya. I'm a currently pursuing MS with Machine Learning Specialization at College of Computing, Georgia Tech. I've been programming since the 9th standard and I love every aspect of it (Even the debugging part :p). I like contributing to Open Source and turning my ideas into reality. I've worked on numerous project over the past couple of year, you can see most of those here.

These days, I am

• Reading Algorithms Illuminated by Tim Roughgarden
• working on a startup idea (can't share the details yet :p)
• mentoring students for GSoC 2019 and Udacity

• Finished CS 6200 (Graduate Introduction to Operating systems)
• Finished CS 6242 (Knowledge based AI)
• Finished CS 6242 (Data and Visual Analytics)
• Started MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech
• Finished MIT 6.042 - Mathematics for Computer Science by Tim Leighton
• Started serving as Organization Admin and Mentor in Google Summer of Code 2019 for Hydra Ecosystem

• Left the job at Fidelity International to study full-time
• Got accepted into Georgia Tech's Masters program
• Gave my first talk at Pycon India 2018(slides here ) on Semantic Web and Hydra
• Served as Organization Admin and Mentor in Google Summer of Code 2018 for Python HYDRA
• Stated working as Graduate Programmer at Fidelity International
• Graduated from college (B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engg.)
• Started mentoring students for Deep Learning and React Nanodegree along with the Full Stack Nanodegree.
• Started learning AI and ML more seriously
• Finished Algorithms specialization (2 courses) by Tim Roughgarden (Stanford)

• Released final version of Typingeek
• Completed Google Summer of Code 2017 under Python Software Foundation
• Started working as a Classroom Mentor & Project Reviewer at Udacity for Full Stack Nanodegree
• Got Linux Essentials certification from Linux Academy
• Graduated Udacity's React Developer Nanodegree program

• I kept on working on Typingeek simultaneously. I Learned a lot about startups, user research, UX design, MVP designing, Lean methodology, marketing, deploying web servers and a ton of other stuff.
• Graduated Udacity's FullStack Developer Nanodegree program
• Graduated Udacity's Front-end Web Developer Nanodegree program
• Graduated Udacity's Tech Entrepreneur Nanodegree program

• Founded Typingeek (It started as a personal project. I wanted to improve my typing speed, tried using the platforms available at that time but didn't like any of those. So, I started working on my own typing platform)
• Finished MIT 6.00.2x - Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science, Edx
• Finished MIT 6.00.1x - Introduction to programming using Python, Edx
• Finished Introduction to Linux by Linux Foundation, Edx

• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen
• Mathematics for Computer Science by Tim Leighton
• Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow
• Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us Into Temptation by Chris Nodder