Akshay Balwally

Akshay Balwally

last updated 2026-03-09

About

I'm a software engineer at Robinhood. I currently live in Brooklyn. You can find my LinkedIn here.

Projects

2026-03-09

gdrive-journal-search — A vibe-coded semantic search tool for long-form documents. It uses LangChain, Sentence Transformers, and FAISS to index text into vector embeddings, enabling meaning-based search rather than simple keyword matching.

2023-01-19

my_first_rails_app — A Ruby on Rails application built while following The Odin Project tutorial.

2020-09-19

police_stops_analysis — Data analysis project examining police stops in South Carolina using Jupyter notebooks and data from the Stanford Open Policing Project.

2016-10-17

plansite — A personal planning website for organizing tasks and schedule.

2016-08-14

Connect4_AI — A Connect 4 AI using convolutional neural networks and reinforcement learning, inspired by AlphaGo, that learns by playing against itself.

2016-01-10

Sudoku-Solver — Solves Sudoku puzzles of arbitrary dimensions using constraint propagation (naked/hidden twins) and backtracking.

2015-11-07

Task-Poster — A mobile app built at YHacks hackathon.

2015-07-14

ICPC — Competitive programming practice work for the International Collegiate Programming Contest.

2015-07-14

Side-Projects — A collection of miscellaneous small side projects.

2015-07-09

Machine-Learning — Custom machine learning tools written in C++ for learning ML fundamentals from scratch.

2015-07-09

GhostBusterApp — An Android app built as a course project for CS2110.

2015-07-09

Genetesis — Code from working with Genetesis (proprietary content).

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