Abhinav Saksena
Founder & CEO at Smart India Hackathon
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolAbhinav Saksena is a founder and CEO with 9 years of experience building energy-focused tech and embedded systems solutions, currently leading Power8 to reduce commercial building energy waste through analytics-driven interventions. He blends hands-on embedded firmware expertise (ARM, AVR, PIC, MSP430, C/C++, Assembly) with applied ML research for predictive energy optimization and growing fluency in AWS Lambda and AI. His background spans hardware design, medical imaging instrumentation, environmental sensing at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and IoT/IIoT productization roles where he translated sensor data into production use cases. As a serial builder and mentor—co-founder of startups, VP of IoT at Algo8.ai, and evaluator for Smart India Hackathon—he pairs research-grade experimentation with commercial viability. Notably, he has designed fully automated microscopy and atmospheric data-loggers that bridged lab validation and field deployments, reflecting a knack for taking complex embedded prototypes to real-world impact. Based in Delhi, he prefers hands-on toolchains from Eagle and Keil to OpenCV and Python, positioning him at the intersection of hardware, firmware, and data-driven energy innovation.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)CLASS 12TH General Studies, CLASS 12TH General Studies at LUCKNOW PUBLIC SCHOOLBachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Motivational Pathway
English, HindiProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
marcelstoer/nodemcu-custom-build
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:6 commits in 2 months
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