Akash Levy
Co-Founder & CTO at Silimate (YC S23)
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAkash Levy is a founder and CTO with 12 years of experience at the intersection of EDA, AI, and cloud infrastructure, currently building Silimate (YC S23) as a co-pilot for chip designers. He holds a Stanford Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a Princeton B.S.E., has taped out three chips, published 14 peer-reviewed papers, and carries two pending EDA patents, blending deep research credentials with product-focused engineering. His industry experience includes internships and projects at NVIDIA, Synopsys, and AWS where he developed novel CAD and AI-driven design tools, and he has taught and mentored students from high school to graduate levels. Based in Mountain View, he combines academic rigor with startup grit and a practical knack for turning simulation and modeling advances into production-ready design automation. An interesting thread through his career is applying ML and reinforcement learning to circuit synthesis and PPA optimization—bringing data-driven approaches into traditionally heuristic-driven chip design.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E., Electrical Engineering, B.S.E., Electrical Engineering at Princeton UniversityStudied in Bangalore, India for 2.5 years in middle school + early high school, Studied in Bangalore, India for 2.5 years in middle school + early high school at The International School BangaloreMathematics, Mathematics at University of PittsburghCenter for Advanced Studies, Engineering, Center for Advanced Studies, Engineering at Pittsburgh Allderdice High SchoolPh.D., Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English, Hindi, German, Chinese
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Github Skills (65)
ansys10
verilog10
python10
netlist10
language-service10
deep-learning10
klayout10
relay10
python-app10
comsol10
mems10
data-processing10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
akashlevy/OpenSTA
Jul 2024 - Jul 2026
Contributions:201 pushes, 65 branches in 2 years
Silimate/silisizer
Nov 2024 - Jun 2026
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Contributions:3 reviews, 2 PRs, 200 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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