Akshay Arora
Client Zero Go-to-Market, Watsonx Americas
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Arora is a Generative AI and go-to-market specialist with 14 years of technical and commercial experience, currently leading Client Zero Go-to-Market for watsonx in the Americas at IBM. He combines hands-on engineering chops—contributing to notable open-source projects like Electrum and Kivy across Android and iOS—with a track record of translating internal IBM successes into tailored client implementations. At IBM he served as a technical account leader for 65+ accounts across industries, repeatedly overachieving sales and enablement targets. His background spans full-stack mobile and platform work, from NFC and QR integrations in a major Bitcoin wallet to toolchain and build improvements for Python mobile frameworks. Based in Chicago, he pairs an MS in Information Systems with practical DevOps and mobile engineering experience to bridge product, engineering, and customer outcomes. A detail that’s not obvious from his title: he has deep low-level mobile integration experience that informs pragmatic, production-ready AI deployments.
15 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Information Systems and Operations Management, Master of Science - MS, Information Systems and Operations Management at University of Florida - Warrington College of BusinessHigh School, High School at Atlantic Coast High SchoolFIE: Foundation for International EducationBachelor of Science in Business Administration, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Information Systems, Management Information Systems, General at University of Florida
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (34)
apim10
ios10
mobile-development10
python10
animation10
image-processing10
bitcoin-wallet10
packaging10
user-interface10
development-tools10
kivy10
android-development10
java10
javas10
jna10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kivy/plyer
Feb 2014 - Oct 2022
Plyer is a platform-independent Python wrapper for platform-dependent APIs
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 95 commits, 105 PRs in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Akshay contributed to the Plyer project by implementing and enhancing notification functionality across multiple platforms, including Linux, Android, and Windows. They introduced new features like timeout options and improved the notification examples. The user also added camera access functionality and an example for iOS, extending the project's platform support. Furthermore, they addressed code quality by fixing pep8 issues, and performed some refactoring.
pythonapi-wrapperwindowslinuxmacos
kivy/kivy
Jul 2011 - Jan 2023
Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 51 reviews, 1417 commits in 11 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Akshay's commits focus on adding support for animating GIFs and images in .zip files within the Kivy UI framework. They implemented features within the core Image class to handle animation, including event handling for texture changes within the Image widget. These changes involved adding new functionality, methods and properties to the core image classes to control the animation. These updates were related to a new rendering approach.
androidioslinuxmacospython
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