Summary
Akshay N is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 8 years of experience building large-scale backend and data platform services, currently helping drive Venmo’s money movement platform at PayPal. Previously at Uber he built ingestion-as-a-service and metadata platforms for big data pipelines, enabling customers to move data from any source to any sink. He holds a master's in computer science from Arizona State University and has a history of founding startups that turned CCTV networks and cognitive search concepts into practical, production-ready analytics and alerting systems. Early experience at IBM and TCS sharpened his enterprise-grade engineering skills, while teaching assistant roles at ASU reflect a knack for mentoring and clear technical communication. Based in San Francisco, he combines product-minded engineering with hands-on distributed systems expertise and an entrepreneurial streak that often surfaces in pragmatic, end-to-end solutions. Notably, his background spans both building platform services at hyperscale and shipping AI-enabled edge solutions, a blend that helps bridge cloud and on-device data workflows.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Arizona State University
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at University of Kerala
English, Malayalam, Hindi