Akshat Shrivastava
Co-Founder & CTO at Perceptron AI
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshat Shrivastava is a founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building and shipping cutting-edge AI systems, currently leading PerceptronAI to bridge the physical and digital worlds. Previously a research scientist at Meta (FAIR and AR AI), he worked on LLMs, multimodal foundation models, on-device language AI, and shipped language features in consumer AR products like Ray-Ban Meta. He combines deep research expertise—pre-training, multimodality, and efficient inference—with hands-on engineering from internships at Google, Microsoft, and Tableau and open-source contributions to vega-lite. Comfortable moving between prototyping and production, he has a track record of turning research into product-grade systems and developer-facing libraries. Based in Redmond and trained at the University of Washington, he pairs academic rigor with startup execution and a knack for making complex models practical on devices.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of WashingtonTesla STEM High School
Hindi, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
declarative-programming10
lang10
javascript10
visualization10
vega-lite10
visualizations10
documentation10
declarative10
testing9
charts9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vega/vega-lite
Jun 2017 - Apr 2018
A concise grammar of interactive graphics, built on Vega.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 8 PRs, 52 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Akshat contributed significantly to the `vega-lite` repository, focusing on the implementation and documentation of the window transform feature. The user added code for the window transform, including its core functionality and related tests. In addition to coding, the user updated the documentation with examples, clarifying the transform's usage and parameters. Furthermore, the user made changes to the schema definition.
chartsinteractive-graphicsvisual-analysisplotgrammar
AkshatSh/DPD
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
CSE 481N: NLP Capstone (Data Programming by Demonstration)
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 423 pushes in 4 months
nlpcapstonedata-programmingcsenatural-language-processing
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