Akshay Budhkar
Chief Executive Officer at Spine AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshay Budhkar is an AI-focused CEO and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building applied research and product teams that translate deep learning and RL advances into commercial value. Currently leading Spine AI in San Francisco, he previously drove AI initiatives at Georgian—helping create over $1B in incremental enterprise value for B2B SaaS customers—and led cross-functional delivery as interim Head of Data Science at WorkFusion. His work spans NLP, time-series outlier detection, speech, model compression and multi-modality, and he has a track record of turning research prototypes into pragmatic product offerings like sales and pipeline optimization engines. A University of Toronto grad student in RL/DL research, he pairs academic rigor with operator experience, and unusually combines board-level product roadmapping with hands-on model development and MLOps.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Nanyang Technological University SingaporeExecutive MBA Essentials Business Administration and Management General, Executive MBA Essentials Business Administration and Management General at University of Toronto - Rotman School of ManagementMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of TorontoBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English, Hindi, Marathi, French
Github Skills (3)
python4
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
3browns1asian/web-ml
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:94 commits, 70 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
3browns1asian/machine-learning
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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