Akshaya Srivatsa
Co-Founder at Maxima
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkshaya Srivatsa is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with nine years of experience building high-scale messaging, payments, and anti-fraud systems. As Co-Founder of Maxima and former engineering leader at WhatsApp, he led teams protecting messaging integrity for 2B+ users and built one of the largest OTP authentication systems. Previously he was Bolt’s first head of product and engineering, owning checkout, payments, identity and anti-fraud while scaling a global org of 60+ engineers and delivering PCI Level 1 compliance. His background spans deep systems work from Twitter ads billing and data warehousing to low-level wireless and verification tools at Marvell, blending research-grade rigor with product-driven execution. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines hands-on architecture and ML-driven integrity solutions with strong hiring and organizational design skills. A pragmatic technologist with a PhD-level research stint at Rice and broad telecom/EE roots, he brings rare cross-domain fluency between hardware-aware engineering and large-scale consumer services.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering (CommNetS), MS Electrical Engineering (CommNetS) at The University of Texas at AustinPhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at Rice UniversityB.E. Telecommunication, B.E. Telecommunication at Visvesvaraya Technological University11th12th Science, 11th12th Science at Sri Kumaran's Children's Home
Kannada, English, Hindi, Malayalam
Github Skills (44)
json10
javascript10
webpack10
es6-modules9
checkout9
amd9
bolt9
css9
postcss-loader9
bundler9
commonjs9
on-demand9
nodejs9
code-splitting9
splitting9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BoltApp/omnipay-bolt
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:7 releases, 14 pushes, 7 tags in 1 month
akshayas/huginn_asana_agent
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Huginn Asana Agent
Contributions:4 PRs, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 21 days
asanasecurityagenthuginn
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