Akarsh Simha
Principal Software Engineer at KDE
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkarsh Simha is a Principal Software Engineer with 18 years of cross-disciplinary experience blending machine learning compilers, large-scale data pipelines, model training, and ML deployment, currently building systems at GoodLeap in San Francisco. He spent over six years at Apple shipping customer-facing ML features and earlier developed rapid-prototyping compilers and frameworks that bridge research models to production. Akarsh holds a PhD in physics from UT Austin, where he built a high-bandwidth optical tweezers apparatus and published novel measurements of Brownian motion in Science, then developed asymptotic theory to explain the results. Beyond work, he is a long-time open-source maintainer and mentor in the KDE/KStars community—engineering features like a 100M-star loader and planetary conjunction tooling—and pursues personal projects that mix software, physics, and astronomy. Notably, his background uniquely pairs experimental precision measurement skills with practical ML systems engineering, enabling rigorous, data-driven solutions to complex production problems.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Physics at The University of Texas at Austin
Kannada, Tamil, German, Sanskrit, English, Hindi
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Github Skills (53)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kstar/logbook
Jan 2013 - Oct 2016
Contributions:108 commits, 1 push in 3 years 9 months
kstar/adventures.github.io
Jun 2024 - Jan 2025
Adventures in Deep Space: Challenging observing projects for amateur astronomers
Contributions:2 PRs, 214 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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