Tarun Sai Akula

AI Engineer | Building AI Products That People Actually Use

Hyderabad

tarunakula14@gmail.com

About

I'm a software developer working in AI, and what I enjoy most is taking an idea and turning it into something people can actually use. At Zion Cloud Solutions, I've worked on quite different problems — building AI shopping experiences, using machine learning to forecast demand, and helping teams get answers from their business data using Gemini enterprise and Google ADK. I've had the chance to be involved in everything from figuring out what a client needs to building, deploying, and improving the solution. That's probably the part I enjoy most about this field: there's always a new problem to figure out and something new to learn.

Skills

SQL

scikit-learn

Agent Orchestration

RAG

LangChain

LangGraph

Google ADK

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Google Cloud

Azure

Docker

PostgreSQL

pgvector

OpenTelemetry

- CI/CD

Experience

Software Developer -Data/AI

Zion Clouds Solutions

Jan 2025 to Present

Led the backend modularization initiative for Batteries Plus's intelligent search platform, building reusable infrastructure for its store-associate and e-commerce applications. Contributed to an AI search initiative targeting approximately 200,000 monthly website searches, addressing misspellings, failed queries, and natural-language product discovery.
Owned the development of Akaari's AI-powered commerce integrations across Instagram and WhatsApp, enabling conversational shopping, visual product recommendations, interactive product carousels, cart management, and checkout workflows.
Owned the AI backend architecture for True Classic's shopping assistant, built with Google ADK, Gemini, and Vertex AI Search for Commerce. Optimized routing, tool execution, and caching, reducing median response latency by approximately 43% (5.1s to 2.9s) in benchmark testing.
Collaborated on an ML-based demand forecasting platform for Old School Rituals, analyzing 77 SKUs across five sales channels using BigQuery, LightGBM, and Optuna. Developed a 12-specialist AI analytics assistant with 19 validated SQL templates for querying business data through natural language.
Contributed to the development of a financial insights agent for the Illinois Comptroller using Gemini Enterprise, Google ADK, and BigQuery, enabling conversational access to governed financial data through pre-validated SQL tools.
Partnered directly with clients to translate business requirements into technical solutions, contributing to system design, development, deployment, and production troubleshooting.

Software Developer Intern

OPM Corporation

Jun 2024 to Sept 2026

Developed full-stack functionality for a pet-care services platform, integrating frontend workflows with backend services and PostgreSQL.
Contributed to backend development, database integration, and application deployment on AWS.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) – Information Technology

Guru Nanak Institutions Technical Campus

Oct 2020 to May 2024

Certifications

Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer

Google Cloud

Nov 2025

Google Professional Cloud Architect

Google Cloud

Dec 2025

Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate