Aakash Adesara
Lead Engineer (Growth) at Athelas
Growth @ Athelas
Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/company/athelas
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Lead Engineer (Growth)
Computer Science
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University of California, Berkeley
https://www.linkedin.com/school/uc-berkeley/
Was one of 50 selected Engineering Fellows from a pool of 4000+ applicants from around the world.
https://fellows.kleinerperkins.com/
Kleiner Perkins
Finalist - KP Engineering Fellow
Created a model using NLP, NEural Networks, KNN Classification, to predict engineering efficiency at GM. Model will ultimately be used by GM to optimize their feedback cycles.
https://www.gm.com/
Machine Learning @ Berkeley / General Motors
2nd Place - Machine Learning Hackathon (by General Motors)
Issued a $5,000 equity-free grant through the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business to work on 'Boxlet Storage', a peer to peer solution for summer storage.
http://boxletstorage.com/
UC Berkeley -- Haas School of Business
Dean's Seed Fund Award
Won Amazons Alexa API Prize at Hack Davis for building Memory, an Alexa assistant for people with Alzheimer’s disease.
https://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html
Amazon @ Hack Davis
Amazon Alexa Award - Hack Davis
Engineered MMOTW (Mirror Mirror on the Wall), a smart mirror that uses audio processing, NLP, and composition libraries to help assist students in their dorms. Submitted project to a UC Berkeley robotics competition.
https://rab.berkeley.edu/
Robotics at Berkeley
1st Place for Originality, Crowds Favorite Award - Dorm Ex Machina Competition
Created Health.me, an iOS and web application that helps doctors provide better, more accesible treatments for their patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. Used data from BioGPS.org and several supervised machine learning algorithms.
https://corp.mhplan.com/
Meridian Health @ MHacks 8
Best Medical Hack Award - MHacks 8
Developed Da Schola at HackingEDU, the worlds largest educational hackathon. Da Schola takes data from high school users, like their SAT/ACT, GPA, extracurriculars, grade, name, and then compiles a personalized plan for the high school student to get into their desired colleges.
HackingEDU
Top 5 Finalist, Best Use of .Club Award, Rubicon Award, Global Commit Award - HackingEDU
• Created Chromatic, a web-based music collaboration tool. Users can create accounts, load music, add instrumental sounds, save the songs, and share with their friends for further editing. 
• Used Node.js, Parse, and Clusterpoint for our backend, Javascript/JQuery, Leap Motion SDK, Three.js, and Dolby Audio encoding for our client side.
• The event had 500 attendees (professionals and students)
Dolby Audio
Sponsor Award
• Created Ignus, a platform where people can make payments using a various payment methods (Paypal, Venmo, Stripe to name a few)
• Cross platform application, both the web and iOS application were developed at the event
• Approximately 1800 attendees attended and submitted projects at HSHacks
HSHacks II
Best iOS Application from MakeSchool
Got 4th place amongst 100+ other teams in a rapid algorithm design and implementation competition that took place at Stanford University.
Stanford ProCo
Stanford ProCo - 4th Place
• Individually created Space Leap Invaders, a Leap Motion integrated version of the retro arcade game, Space Invaders
• Received a Leap controller and Honorable Mention for developing this web based application.
• Approximately 2000 attendees at this PennApps.
PennApps 2014
Leapmotion Honorable Mention
• Development Myo Music Mixer (3M), a web-based music system that allows users to enter an augmented DJ experience with their Leap Motion controller and Myo Armband
• Used the Myo JS SDK, Node.js, and Leap Motion libraries for this project
• Event was held in San Francisco and had around 300 attendees (mostly professional)
HeroHacks
2nd Place Overall
• The challenge was to create a wind powered contraption to pump 3 galloons of water in 30 seconds. My team and I used scrap materials like soda bottles, wood platforms, PVC pipes, and a spindle to create a makeshift pump which completed the challenge and won 2 awards.
Tech Challenge
Best Engineering Journal and Best Design Process Award
• Created ChemWhiz, an empirical chemistry calculation iOS application that computes atomic masses and does other simple chemistry calculations
• Event had approximately 1500 attendees
HSHacks I
3rd Place Overall
• Created Airjam, an Android application that allowed users to play drums and guitar using just their Android camera. 
• Received a $2500 cash prize along with admission to GDC (Global Game Developer Conference 2014). 
• Event had roughly 1000 corporate attendees
AppHacks 2013
XTR3D Best API Implementation Award
Education
How to Build the Future DeCal
https://www.linkedin.com/company/btfcal
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Instructor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishansharmaster
San Francisco Bay Area
Ishan Sharma
Growth Marketing @ Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidharth-raguraman
San Francisco Bay Area
Sidharth Raguraman
Product @ Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanaytandon
Cupertino, CA
Tanay Tandon
CEO at Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruv-parthasarathy-0b29b658
Mountain View, CA
Dhruv Parthasarathy
CTO at Athelas (YC16/Sequoia/GC) | MIT
https://www.linkedin.com/in/akipraveen
Cupertino, CA
Akilesh Praveen
software engineer @ athelas ⭕
https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-myers-a11161158
Salt Lake City, UT
Austin Myers
Retention Specialist - Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgrinstead
Sunnyvale, CA
Marshall Grinstead
Head of Hardware Engineering at Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dstayner
San Francisco Bay Area
Don Stayner
Product Manager at Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel1leung
Fremont, CA
Rachel L.
Business Analyst at Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mick-majewski-8a076993
San Francisco Bay Area
Mick Majewski
Account Executive at Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeobrien
San Francisco Bay Area
Jake O'Brien
Sales Manager at Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepika-bodapati-10229773
Saratoga, CA
Deepika Bodapati
Founder at Athelas (YC/Sequoia/General Catalyst)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wileycwjones
San Francisco, CA
Wiley Jones
Lead Hardware Engineer
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjiwoahn
Orem, UT
Benji Woahn
Executive Vice President Of Sales at Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmeresse
Clayton, CA
Kevin Meresse
Lead Android Engineer at Nextdoor
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anubhakhurana
Palo Alto, CA
Anubha Khurana
Senior Software Solutions Engineer specializing in web development
https://www.linkedin.com/in/humza-khan-5611a1188
San Francisco Bay Area
Humza Khan
Podcaster
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sananth12
San Mateo, CA
Anantha Natarajan Selvaganapathy
Senior Software Engineer at Facebook
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Growth at Nextdoor