Akshat Sahay
Servo Engineer at Seagate Technology
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshat Sahay is a servo engineer at Seagate with 8 years of experience building real-time embedded firmware and RISC-V systems for high-performance enterprise storage. He holds an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and a BS in Computer Engineering from UMass Amherst, where his honors work included a wearable for underwater motion analysis. His background spans flight software for a nanosatellite, hands-on makerspace instruction, and firmware/hardware internships focused on machine vision and bio-sensing platforms. Akshat combines low-level firmware craftsmanship with practical hardware design and teaching experience, enabling rapid prototyping and reliable production code. Based in Minneapolis, he brings a research-driven approach to industrial problems and a track record of shipping embedded systems from lab prototypes to corporate products. An understated strength is his ability to translate academic research into deployable firmware and tooling that teams can adopt quickly.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts AmherstMaster of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (1)
cpp6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Akshat412/DunGen-Prototypes
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
cmu-argus-2/GSW-backend
Aug 2024 - Jun 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 11 PRs, 62 pushes in 10 months
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