--- title: "AKSHAY (@akshayetukuri) | Hashnode" description: "AKSHAY (@akshayetukuri) writes on Hashnode. Read their latest articles and follow their work." url: "https://hashnode.com/@akshayetukuri" --- @akshayetukuri # AKSHAY @akshayetukuri · Hyderabad, India · Joined July 2026 ### [Predicting Customer Churn Before It Happens: An End-to-End ML Project with SHAP Explainability](https://akshayetukurihashnodedev.hashnode.dev/predicting-customer-churn-before-it-happens-an-end-to-end-ml-project-with-shap-explainability?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) An end-to-end churn prediction pipeline using XGBoost and SHAP for explainability — deployed on both Streamlit Cloud and HuggingFace Spaces. Covers EDA insights, feature engineering, model comparison, and a real Docker deployment debugging story. 6 min read · [akshayetukurihashnodedev.hashnode.dev](https://akshayetukurihashnodedev.hashnode.dev/predicting-customer-churn-before-it-happens-an-end-to-end-ml-project-with-shap-explainability?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Jul 4](https://hashnode.com/posts/predicting-customer-churn-before-it-happens-an-end-to-end-ml-project-with-shap-explainability/6a4925fd5d6713cccaed3468) ### [Fine-Tuning BERT to Classify Security Logs — And the 100% Accuracy Trap I Fell Into](https://akshayetukurihashnodedev.hashnode.dev/fine-tuning-bert-to-classify-security-logs-and-the-100-accuracy-trap-i-fell-into?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) Fine-tuned BERT to classify security-relevant logs and alerts for threat detection. Covers tackling a vocabulary-shortcut problem in synthetic training data, model evaluation on ambiguous hand-crafted examples, and deployment to HuggingFace Spaces. 4 min read · [akshayetukurihashnodedev.hashnode.dev](https://akshayetukurihashnodedev.hashnode.dev/fine-tuning-bert-to-classify-security-logs-and-the-100-accuracy-trap-i-fell-into?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed) [Jul 4](https://hashnode.com/posts/fine-tuning-bert-to-classify-security-logs-and-the-100-accuracy-trap-i-fell-into/6a48e9203e87873c553e7a6e)