Akshit Singh Walia

Independent Developer & ResearcherChandigarh, India

• Designed and built a Raspberry Pi aeroponics prototype with edge control: adaptive misting, EC-guided nutrient dosing, automatic refill, and root imaging.
• International Finalist, IEEE YESIST12 2026 Junior Einstein Track Grand Finale, Jakarta, Indonesia (virtual presentation); manuscript under review at the International Journal of Agriculture Innovation, Technology and Globalisation (Inderscience).
• Built on my earlier Grade 10 Arduino soilless growing prototype, which earned a CBSE Regional Science Exhibition Certificate of Merit and was selected to advance to the national-level exhibition.

Lead Developer & System IntegratorChandigarh, India

• Built and progressively refined a low-cost touchscreen retrofit for the family car integrating navigation, reverse camera display, parking assistance, diagnostics, and multimedia.
• Validated the system over ~5,000 km of real-world driving and later conducted systematic subsystem testing and repeated performance measurements, with the work receiving the CREST Gold Award (British Science Association).
• Research manuscript under second-round revision for the International Journal of Embedded Systems (Inderscience).

Lead CAD Designer & Co-Developer

• Co-developing a robot that automatically cleans rooftop solar panels to maintain output; designed the full CAD model and currently building and testing the prototype.

Team Lead, four-student team

• Led a four-student team to build a sensor-controlled rotating solar panel that automatically tracked light direction; won first prize at the school science model competition.

Founder & DeveloperChandigarh, Indiatonexora.com

• Founded and built a web and Android platform helping students find hackathons, internships, competitions, research programs, and volunteering opportunities; 188 users to date, 150 currently active.
• Engineered a 14-source opportunity pipeline with daily updates, duplicate removal, relevance filtering, and original-source links, plus a seven-stage application tracker for deadlines and progress.
• Built Nexora Teams, a collaboration workspace for hackathons, research, and student projects with milestones, task assignment, deadlines, meeting decisions, mentor feedback, and project documentation.

Software Development InternRemote (Scottsdale, AZ, USA)

• Developed full-stack features using React, Tailwind CSS, and FastAPI, including REST APIs, JWT authentication, database integration using SQLAlchemy and SQLite, OCR-based document scanning with pytesseract, and a scikit-learn prediction module.
• Tested, debugged, and iterated on features based on mentor feedback.

Junior Fellow; Founder & Lead Developer, GrowviaVirtual

• Created Growvia, an AI-literacy and career-readiness website guiding students from AI awareness to practical skills and real opportunities; developed modules, worksheets, and a trainer toolkit.
• Led four online pilot sessions for about 40 students; 81.8% of respondents wanted to keep learning through Growvia.

Peer Mentor (CS, Robotics & Math)Ludhiana & Chandigarh, India

• Helped classmates and juniors debug coding and robotics projects by explaining root causes; worked through advanced math problems with peers and tutored students in the evenings.

VolunteerLudhiana, India

• Volunteered for 15 days at a care home supporting residents affected by illness, disability, or abandonment; taught and engaged with children with developmental needs.

Int’l J. of Innovative Research in Computer & Communication Engineering, Vol. 14(9), pp. 6171–6178

Studied cyber-risk practices in Indian banks and assessed how to mitigate cloud-edge shared-responsibility risks in digital banking.

Review Article, Int’l Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering, Vol. 14, Issue 6, pp. 48–56

Co-authored with Sonal Bakshi; proposed a framework linking cloud architecture, responsibility distribution, and security risk across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. DOI 10.26438/ijcse.v14i6.7430