Bora Akyol
Head Of Software Engineering at Akaysha Energy
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolBora Akyol is a veteran software engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building and scaling high-impact teams across startups, national labs, and global enterprises, now serving as Head of Software Engineering in the renewable energy sector. He has a rare blend of deep research pedigree—a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford—and hands-on product and systems experience from roles at Cisco, Broadcom, and multiple Silicon Valley startups. Bora specializes in turning around underperforming organizations, driving operational excellence, and delivering large-scale optimization and control software for energy and grid systems. He led development of foundational platforms like VOLTTRON and GridOPTICS at PNNL, and has driven industry standards work through MESA to enable interoperable energy storage controls. Known for pairing rigorous technical architecture with pragmatic delivery, he consistently increases team throughput and business impact (for example, enabling a 200% YoY increase in bids via high-performance computing tools). Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he combines research-grade thinking with product-focused execution across the energy software stack.
12 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Electrical Engineering, BSEE Electrical Engineering at Bilkent UniversityPh.D. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Turkish, English
Stackoverflow
61reputation
473reached
3answers
1question
Github Skills (20)
bacnet10
message-bus10
daemon10
pcf10
modbus10
volttron9
python9
osgi9
iot7
cisco6
cisco-ios6
ntp6
prefix3
monitor2
backend2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
VOLTTRON/volttron
Nov 2013 - Oct 2017
VOLTTRON Distributed Control System Platform
Contributions:5 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
pythonmessage-busoffice-hoursdaemonosgi
NREL/volttron
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
volttroncontrol-systemdistributed-controliotdistributed
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