Akshay Devalla is a product leader with 13 years of cross-functional experience building growth and product strategies at data-first startups and venture firms, currently driving product at Sigma Computing in New York. He combines an engineering background from IIT Madras and an MBA from MIT Sloan to translate technical complexity into measurable retention and activation outcomes. Past roles span founding-stage healthcare AI (Predible Health), growth product at Appsmith, and investment work at Accel where he supported companies through Series A to later rounds. He has hands-on experience integrating analytics and automation stacks (Clearbit, Segment, ActiveCampaign) to create unified user profiles and built internal tooling to accelerate activation. Known for blending strategy with execution, he has published technical work on acoustic and medical imaging simulations and repeatedly pivoted products to find market fit. Colleagues describe him as a data-driven operator who equally values product intuition and scalable systems.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at MIT Sloan School of Management
Contributions:6 PRs, 117 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
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Akshay Devalla - Product Manager at Sigma Computing