head down grinding
Saksham Adhikari
Hi, Saksham here. I care about building AI that is reliable, measurable, and useful in the real world—from the model and mathematics underneath it to the infrastructure that makes it run.
the kites follow your cursor
$ wc -l the receipts
By the numbers
The receipts, counted.
6
hackathon wins
NVIDIA, webAI, Vercel v0 × AWS, UT Law, TXST, Novo
~130k
records indexed
Cancer-care records, semantically searchable at BCRC
180k+
grants queryable
Grants-MCP, 389+ downloads on PulseMCP
~10,000
hackers beaten
Best Monetizable B2C App at H0, Vercel v0 × AWS
78% → 91%
test coverage
Agentic healthcare stack at BCRC
4.0
GPA
B.B.A. Computer Information Systems, Texas State
reading the calendar
github.com/Tar-ive · the last year
FETCHING
$ git log --author=saksham
Professional Experience
Inference on hardware, health data at scale, and the teams in between.
Machine Learning Engineer Intern
AskSLM
Technologies
What I did
- Quantized custom-trained LLaVA vision models for edge devices, monitoring weight clustering for a 3x increase in image-to-text sequence recognition throughput.
- Added Reciprocal Rank Fusion to the internal RAG pipeline, lifting retrieval precision for a 3% improvement in Mean Reciprocal Rank.
- Engineered real-time video analytics pipelines on the DeepStream SDK, tuning frame-rate throughput and end-to-end inference latency with Harbor for systematic evaluation.
$ ls ~/projects
Projects
Giftmaxxing
live on the App Store
An AI gift concierge that compresses inspiration → curation → purchase, so nobody freezes on what to get them. Best Monetizable B2C App at H0 (Vercel v0 × AWS, ~10,000 participants), then shipped to the App Store.
$ ls ~/wins
Hackathons
Six wins, and the things they turned into.
H0: Hack the Zero Stack · Vercel v0 × AWS
Giftmaxxing
Best Monetizable B2C App · ~10,000 participants
An AI gift concierge built with Kusum Bhattarai Sharma. Won $6,000+ in prizes, then shipped to the App Store off feedback from AWS engineers and judges.
$ cat publications.bib
Research
Papers where the modeling was mine to defend.
$ whoami
Education
Academic background and the stack I work in.
Texas State University
B.B.A. Computer Information Systems
Full-tuition Merit Scholar, one of 15 awarded schoolwide. AKAEF Undergraduate Launch Scholar and Merry Kone FitzPatrick Endowment Scholar.
coursework · keep scrolling
$ mail -s
Get in touch
Working on inference, ranking, or health data? I answer every note.
Currently seeking
Open to 2027 new grad SWE, ML opportunities.