Summary
Akshay Sinha is a founder and operator blending 11 years of engineering and product experience at the intersection of finance and technology, currently co-founding Palladium Labs and serving as Co-Founder & COO at Rivera Money. He has led cross-functional teams to build and scale payment and checkout products, developed financial algorithms as a mathematician on Upwork, and transitioned from field engineering roles at Schlumberger into digital transformation and product leadership. Comfortable with both hands-on problem solving and strategy, he has experience as a private investor and advisor in web3, NFTs and DAOs, bringing a market-aware technical lens to startups. Based in Mumbai and trained at IIT Bombay in mechanical engineering, he pairs rigorous analytical skills with operational grit—an engineer who jokingly calls himself a "Confused Coder" but consistently drives measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience