Akilesh Jayakumar
About Akilesh.
Background, current work, interests, and the purpose of this portfolio.
Background
I’m Akilesh Jayakumar, an AI engineer and builder based in Singapore. At GovTech Singapore, I work as a Manager in the AI Ecosystem team, helping public officers and teams adopt artificial intelligence thoughtfully and turn promising ideas into useful services. My work sits between technology, product thinking, community building, and the practical details that help new tools earn trust.
I graduated with a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Wollongong on 26 May 2026. I enjoy learning in public, prototyping with language and multimodal models, and exploring how good interfaces can make advanced technology feel understandable. Before my current role, I worked on AI engineering across several Singapore public agencies, with experience spanning AI safety and governance, chatbots, deployment, research, evaluations, workflows, and automation.
What this site is for
This portfolio is a maintained record of selected work, independent projects, writing, hackathons, meetups, and experiments. It is useful when you need to understand what I have built, the kinds of problems I enjoy, or whether my experience fits a collaboration, speaking opportunity, community initiative, or product conversation. Project links point to demos or original posts where those are available; work history is presented as a concise overview rather than a full résumé.
The Playground is an experimental part of the site where visitors can try text and image models. It is separate from my employer’s services and should not be treated as an official GovTech product or advice. Views and projects presented here are my own unless a page explicitly says otherwise.