Summary
Akshay Kotha is a Software Development Engineer at AWS with eight years of experience building ML-focused networking and commerce systems, currently contributing to Authoritative Intent Driven Networks for Machine Learning. He blends a dual background in computer science and finance from the University of Michigan to navigate technical tradeoffs with product and business context, previously working across digital payments, emerging markets, and commerce partnerships. Akshay has experience in product management and research—having developed live functional programming tools in an academic lab—and has interned on digital power grid software, underscoring a practical interest in systems that interface with complex real-world domains. Passionate about AI, analytics, and experiments, he brings a data-driven, experiment-first mindset to engineering problems and the intersection of finance and machine learning.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Finance General, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Finance General at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Michigan College of Engineering