Available for roles & freelance  ·  Leeds, UK

Akshay
Maroli Payyanadan

Automation Engineer  /  MCA & MSc Advanced Computer Science

I build systems that remove friction and actually get used — from workflow automation and document AI to edge computer vision. 100+ projects delivered. Currently finishing my second Masters in Leeds.

100+ Freelance Projects
3+ Years Delivering
2 Masters Degrees
About

I build things that
actually get used.

My instinct is to automate. When I see a repetitive process — a data pipeline, a document workflow, a manual task someone runs every day — I want to remove it. That thread has run through everything from early Fiverr scripts to the full-scale automation systems I've built more recently.

I've worked across the stack — Python, AppScript, REST APIs, GCP, Selenium, document AI — mostly on problems where success has a simple measure: does this save real time for real people?

Originally from Kerala, India. Now based in Leeds, finishing my MSc in Advanced Computer Science. What comes next is still forming — but it points at applied AI, edge systems, and software that earns its place.

Let's talk
Now

Currently building

MSc Dissertation

Edge AI Wildfire Detection

YOLOv8 nano model deployed on Raspberry Pi with Flask split-inference. Lightweight, real-time detection at the edge — no cloud latency dependency.

YOLOv8Raspberry PiFlaskEdge AI

Automation Systems

Ongoing workflow tooling — API integrations, document processing, and pipelines that cut manual overhead.

PythonAppScriptREST APIs

Personal Utility Hub

A personal ecosystem of tools, micro-automations, and utilities built around real friction in day-to-day work.

ToolsAutomationsPortfolio
Work

Projects

01 Production · Community Tool

Community Event & Meals App

A real-world application used daily by a community for event planning, meal distribution management, and announcements. Built for practical operational use — deployed and relied upon, not a portfolio demo.

Community App Event Planning Operations Product Build
02 Freelance · 100+ Delivered

Automation & Workflow Systems

100+ projects delivered across Google Workspace automation, REST API integrations, document processing, Selenium test suites, and custom business tooling. Long-term collaboration with a UK-based client on AppScript, Document AI, and GCP pipelines.

AppScript Selenium REST APIs Python Document AI GCP
03 Live · Next.js

Daily AI Shots

AI news aggregator pulling from 10+ sources. Filter by category, source, and date — then save stories into personalised digests. Fully client-side, no backend or database.

Next.js News Aggregator Static
04 Live · Next.js

Vantage Capital

Business finance platform for loans from $50K–$50M. Covers term loans, equipment finance, and invoice factoring — with 48-hour credit decisions and a full product UI built in Next.js.

Next.js Finance Vercel
05 Live · Next.js + Prisma

LedgerMatch

Multi-user expense reconciliation platform. Import CSVs, normalise records, and match transactions via rule-based scoring. Includes dashboard analytics and role-based access control.

Next.js Prisma Auth.js Reconciliation
06 Live · Static

Utility Masterhub

12 browser-based utilities across 4 categories — text cleaning, data formatting, encoding, and calculations. Everything runs client-side with no server, cookies, or tracking.

HTML/CSS/JS Client-side 12 Tools
07 MSc Dissertation · 2025

Edge AI Wildfire Detection

MSc dissertation project focused on deploying a YOLOv8 nano model directly on a Raspberry Pi 5 for real-time wildfire and smoke detection. The core work was rigorous benchmarking — measuring detection rate, false positive score, inference latency, and resource utilisation under constrained hardware conditions. The deployment used a Flask-based split-inference architecture to keep processing at the edge without relying on cloud round-trips.

The study concluded with a cloud comparison — evaluating how the edge-deployed model's accuracy and speed trade-offs measured up against cloud-based inference pipelines, making the case for where edge deployment is genuinely viable.

YOLOv8 Nano Raspberry Pi 5 Flask Edge AI Benchmarking Computer Vision Cloud Comparison
Career

Experience

Automation Engineer · Part-Time

Acefast Computers Ltd  ·  Leeds, UK
Jun 2025 – Dec 2025
  • Continued automation engineering work part-time while based in Leeds completing the MSc

Automation Engineer · Full-Time, Remote

Acefast Computers Ltd  ·  UK (Remote from India)
Mar 2024 – Jan 2025
  • Full-time automation engineering role working remotely for a UK-based client
  • Built AppScript, GCP, and document AI systems as the primary automation engineer

Freelance Software Developer

Fiverr  ·  Level 2 Seller  ·  5.0★  ·  153 reviews
Oct 2022 – Jan 2025
  • 100+ projects delivered — Google Workspace automation, REST API integrations, Selenium test suites, and custom business tooling
  • Grew to Level 2 Seller status with a 5.0★ rating across 153 reviews
  • Long-term UK client work on AppScript, Document AI, and GCP pipelines — which led directly to a full-time role

Automation & Analytics Engineer

Quantiphi  ·  Bangalore
Jan 2022 – Dec 2022
  • Joined as Automation & Analytics Intern (Jan – Jul 2022), converted to full Engineer (Jul – Dec 2022)
  • Automation and analytics engineering in a data and AI-focused product environment

Software Tester

Tata Consultancy Services  ·  Bengaluru
Oct 2018 – Apr 2019
  • Software testing and QA at one of India's largest technology services companies
  • Recipient of the TCS Gems Award
Capabilities

Skills & Stack

Automation & APIs
Workflow Automation Google AppScript REST APIs Web Services API Document AI Selenium
AI & ML
Edge AI Computer Vision YOLOv8 Applied AI
Cloud & Infrastructure
GCP AWS Cloud Foundations
Languages & Frameworks
Python JavaScript Flask HTML / CSS
Delivery & Practice
Client Collaboration Freelance Delivery Technical Documentation Problem Scoping
Academic

Education

In Progress
MSc Advanced Computer Science
Leeds Beckett University
Leeds, England
Dissertation: Edge AI Wildfire Detection
MCA — Master of Computer Applications
Christ University
Bangalore, India
BCA — Bachelor of Computer Applications
New Horizon College of Engineering
Bangalore, India
Certified

Certifications

AWS Academy Graduate
AWS Academy Cloud Foundations
Verified
Contact

Let's work
together.

Open to full-time engineering roles, contract work, and interesting freelance projects. If you're building something useful and need someone who ships — I'd like to hear about it.