Akersh Srivastava

Akersh Srivastava has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Akersh currently holds the position of VP Product & Head of Developer Relations at Chainlink Labs since September 2023. In the same year, they also became an Advisor for CoMotion at University of Washington. Prior to that, they worked at Meta as GM, Meta Open Source Platform & Ecosystem from 2020 to 2023. Between 2016 and 2020, Akersh served in various roles at Amazon, including Head of Technology Evangelism, Sr. Manager, Technology Evangelism, and Technology Evangelist. Before that, they worked at Accenture, where they held the positions of Manager, Emerging Technology from 2014 to 2016, and Consultant, Emerging Technology from 2012 to 2014. Akersh also has experience as a Principal Software Engineer at NorthSocial from 2010 to 2012, and as a Software Engineer at Gas Creative Group from 2009 to 2010. Akersh's early career involved working as High Performance Computing at The National Institutes of Health from 2008 to 2009.

Akersh Srivastava has completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Biotechnology at California State Polytechnic University-Pomona. Akersh has also pursued postgraduate coursework in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UCLA.