Akshay Deo
Co-Founder & CTO at Maxim AI
Pune, Maharashtra, United States
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Top SchoolAkshay Deo is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 12+ years of experience building and scaling developer-focused products, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of Maxim AI. He has repeatedly led technology and product pivots—from founding AppSurfer (an early remote Android streaming client) to driving major tooling and reporting initiatives at Postman and Slack—combining hands-on systems work with product strategy. Akshay is fluent across stacks (Golang, Java, Node, Android, iOS, React) and architectures (event sourcing, distributed systems, GraphDBs, Kafka), and has a proven record of shipping high-throughput services and cost-optimised infrastructure. He’s an active open-source maintainer (YAAG, OmniDesk and multiple Go clients/utilities) and built his first commercial app at 14, underscoring a long-running builder’s instinct. Beyond product delivery, he’s an experienced team builder and operator—having run a venture-backed startup as CTO and co-founded an angel fund focused on global Indian tech. Based in Pune, Akshay blends startup grit with enterprise-grade engineering discipline to bring developer tooling and AI testing platforms from prototype to production.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Pune Institute of Computer TechnologySSC Science, SSC Science at Suyash Vidyalaya, SolapurHSC Science, HSC Science at Sangmeshwar College, Solapur
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Github Skills (110)
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Github contributions (5)
maximhq/maxim-cookbooks
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Maxim is an end-to-end AI evaluation and observability platform that empowers modern AI teams to ship agents with quality, reliability, and speed.
Contributions:3 reviews, 62 PRs, 72 pushes in 4 months
evaluationevaluation-frameworkgenaiobservability
betacraft/how-we-work
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:1 commit, 216 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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