Summary
Akhil Mantripragada is a Staff Software Engineer based in Cambridge, MA with 11 years of experience building and shipping user-focused products across education and new ventures. He’s co-founded and sold startups, led the acquisition and integration of his company Edulinc into Pragya Systems, and has launched more than ten products with real institutional adoption. Technically versatile, he has designed ML-driven tagging algorithms, integrated platforms with Dropbox, GitHub and Stripe, and built dashboards that consolidate campus data to improve student outcomes. As an engineering leader he has grown and mentored distributed teams, improved delivery efficiency by over 30%, and served as the customer-facing technical lead for multiple deployments. He pairs hands-on architecture and API design with stakeholder engagement—having negotiated directly with provosts and CIOs to drive adoption. His pragmatic focus on measurable impact is evident in products sold (UTSA) and in operational KPIs tied to student success.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
ICSE X, ISC XII, ICSE X, ISC XII at Ryan International School, Bangalore
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
English, Hindi, Telugu