Summary
Akash Choudhari is a seasoned software engineering manager with two decades of experience building and scaling device software and DevOps organizations for consumer hardware across Android, Linux, and embedded systems. He has led global teams of 50+ engineers and contractors at Meta and Google, driving platform end-to-end work from BSP and kernel to OTA, QA, and CI for high-volume products like Google Assistant TVs, speakers, and automotive audio SKUs. Known for operational rigor, he implemented CI pipelines and release processes supporting hundreds of developers, slashing release effort and raising quality while managing multi-million dollar vendor programs and board bring-ups. Technically grounded from early Android work at Texas Instruments through Product-Engineering leadership at Google, he combines hands-on systems expertise with program-level orchestration across partners like Samsung, SONOS, Bose, Vizio, and Harman. He currently focuses on audio and hearables, balancing strategic partner integrations with mentorship and developer enablement; extra curiosity: he augmented his background with a professional ML/AI certificate from UC Berkeley to inform data-driven product decisions.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Professional certificate in machine learning & AI Artificial Intelligence, Professional certificate in machine learning & AI Artificial Intelligence at University of California, Berkeley
MBA Marketing and Finance, MBA Marketing and Finance at Naveen Jindal School of Management, UT Dallas
MS E.E. Signal Processing, MS E.E. Signal Processing at Southern Methodist University
BE Telecommunications, BE Telecommunications at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi