Akash A.

Akash A. is an accomplished software engineer with a robust background in technology and machine learning. As a co-founder of Oceans Thought and Bandof5.com, Akash contributed significantly to the development of innovative solutions. Experience at Nokia Siemens Networks involved building systems for device management and porting Oracle reporting frameworks to Hadoop. At Amazon, Akash excelled as a Software Development Engineer 3, designing high-performance Spark-based machine learning pipelines and optimizing data processing for real-time applications. Currently serving as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Rippling, Akash leads efforts in developing advanced large language model capabilities and a multi-tenant Retrieval-Augmented Generation platform. Akash earned a B.E. in Computer Science from Visvesvaraya Technological University.