Akanksha Vyas is a mathematically minded CTO and co-founder with 14 years of hands-on engineering and product leadership experience, currently shaping technology strategy at Mumbai-based Pinky Promise. She blends a data-driven approach to software development with entrepreneurship, having co-founded and advised startups across Europe and India and led video services engineering at IDfy. Her background spans research and teaching roles in the U.S. and India, plus early product work at Body Labs and ConsenSys, giving her fluency across computer vision, blockchain-adjacent systems, and applied mathematics. Comfortable moving between coding, mentoring, and board-level decisions, she pairs rigorous technical depth from an MS in Computer Science with practical startup grit. A less obvious strength is her international track record of building teams and products across diverse ecosystems—from Maastricht to Mumbai—making her adept at translating research-grade ideas into market-ready software.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Foundational coursework, Computer Engineering, Foundational coursework, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
The Shri Ram School
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Clarkson University
Contributions:16 PRs, 33 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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