Summary
Akash Devaraju is a founder and CEO with 15 years of experience blending technology product development and hospitality-driven consumer brands from Bengaluru. He has taken startups from concept to exit and now leads Local Ferment Co, where he applies engineering-like rigor to recipe R&D, SOPs, vendor systems and e-commerce to scale a niche probiotic beverage business across retail and B2B channels. Earlier ventures include ChefSocial, which introduced chef-to-home fine dining at scale, and technical leadership roles where he built front-end teams and loyalty/proximity platforms. Comfortable switching between code, product design and operations, he repeatedly turns creative culinary ideas into market-ready products and processes. Known for bringing brewing and bartending techniques into commercial production, he pairs aesthetic product sensibility with measurable cost and inventory discipline. His background in computer science and hands-on technical architecture work gives him an unusual ability to automate, instrument and grow hospitality businesses like tech products.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Kendriya Vidyalaya [Nagpur,Maharashtra]
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer and Information Sciences, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer and Information Sciences at Sir M. Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology
High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Kendriya Vidyalaya [Bangalore,Karnataka]
English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, French