Akshay Kathiriya

Architected an AI engine using LangGraph and LLM APIs to generate production-ready Playwright test suites from Jira tickets — cutting manual QA scripting time by ~60%. Built a real-time dashboard with Redis, BullMQ, and AWS ECS; RAG pipeline injects project context from PDFs and GitHub repos.

Built in-app citation preview with page navigation and span highlighting across PDF, DOCX, CSV, XLSX, and Markdown — replacing external browser redirects. Extended Milvus chunk metadata with page numbers and character offsets at ingestion for grounded, verifiable retrieval.

Led a medical education platform on Next.js and Tailwind CSS. Migrated legacy WordPress course content to Payload CMS with custom lesson highlighting and audio playback. Deployed on AWS with Docker and automated GitHub Actions CI/CD.

Built HIPAA-compliant REST APIs with Loopback 4 and React for a sleep-apnea monitoring system used by clinicians and patients. Implemented MySQL patient filtering by clinical criteria; integrated Twilio SMS/video and AWS SQS for async microservices processing.

Lead application developer on a production talent/employer marketplace. Shipped WorkOS auth, Apollo GraphQL API, Redis Streams notification platform with idempotency, AI-assisted workstyle matching (Gemini), GoRules rules engine, and Strapi CMS for admin content management.

Desktop app using Python and OpenCV to digitize physical forms via OCR — automatically extracting and verifying text data for storage in MySQL. Public project on GitHub.