Summary
Aakash Adesara is an AI-focused engineering leader and founder with over a decade of experience building ML-driven products and growth systems across startups and tech companies in the Bay Area. He co-founded SellScale to apply AI to enterprise GTM, led growth engineering at Athelas on healthcare and diagnostics, and shipped ML and Android products at Nextdoor and Lyft. A Berkeley CS alumnus and former Cal Hacks executive director, he combines product-minded engineering with operational experience running large student events and fellowships (Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed). He’s also a hands-on builder of creative hardware and software projects—from high-altitude rockets to AI mirrors and pandemic-era virtual classrooms—reflecting a taste for ambitious, interdisciplinary prototypes. Based in San Francisco, he’s equally likely to talk venture, biking routes, or the next hackathon idea.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Spanish