Leke Akinola
Senior Manager at Applied Materials
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolLeke Akinola is a Senior Manager of Strategy at Applied Materials who blends a PhD-level engineering foundation with hands-on consulting experience to help semiconductor and AI-focused companies scale product and technology initiatives. He leads cross-BU programs in AI hardware, next-gen packaging, and automotive semiconductors, translating technical roadmaps into quantifiable market opportunities and funding partnerships with OEMs, foundries, and Tier-1 suppliers. Previously at McKinsey he advised CxOs across five segments of the semiconductor value chain, driving growth strategy, supply-chain optimization, and >$100M TCO savings for clients. Comfortable in both lab and boardroom, he pairs deep technical skills (nanotech research and instrumentation automation) with practical software fluency in Go, Flutter, and Rust. Based in San Jose, he’s particularly focused on how AI both enables new semiconductor capabilities and creates high-growth end markets like humanoid robots and robotaxis.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Obafemi Awolowo University
Yoruba, French
Github Skills (94)
messaging10
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compose-desktop10
streaming10
sdk10
rapid10
pulsar10
discovery10
pubsub10
dynamic-routing10
compose9
event-streaming9
apache-pulsar9
wal9
development-kit9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
paashzj/performance-consumer
Dec 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:51 releases, 10 reviews, 31 PRs in 4 months
paashzj/kafka_go
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:29 reviews, 55 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 months
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