aakash adesara
Lead Engineer (Growth) at Athelas
growth @ athelas
Athelas
https://www.linkedin.com/company/athelas
Lead Engineer (Growth)
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Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
https://www.linkedin.com/school/uc-berkeley/
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Finalist - KP Engineering Fellow
Kleiner Perkins
Was one of 50 selected Engineering Fellows from a pool of 4000+ applicants from around the world.
https://fellows.kleinerperkins.com/
2nd Place - Machine Learning Hackathon (by General Motors)
Machine Learning @ Berkeley / General Motors
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/
Dean's Seed Fund Award
UC Berkeley -- Haas School of Business
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/
Amazon Alexa Award - Hack Davis
Amazon @ Hack Davis
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
1st Place for Originality, Crowds Favorite Award - Dorm Ex Machina Competition
Robotics at Berkeley
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/
Best Medical Hack Award - MHacks 8
Meridian Health @ MHacks 8
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/
Top 5 Finalist, Best Use of .Club Award, Rubicon Award, Global Commit Award - HackingEDU
HackingEDU
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.
Sponsor Award
Dolby Audio
• 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)
Best iOS Application from MakeSchool
HSHacks II
• 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
Stanford ProCo - 4th Place
Stanford ProCo
Got 4th place amongst 100+ other teams in a rapid algorithm design and implementation competition that took place at Stanford University.
Leapmotion Honorable Mention
PennApps 2014
• 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.
2nd Place Overall
HeroHacks
• 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)
Best Engineering Journal and Best Design Process Award
Tech Challenge
• 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.
3rd Place Overall
HSHacks I
• Created ChemWhiz, an empirical chemistry calculation iOS application that computes atomic masses and does other simple chemistry calculations
• Event had approximately 1500 attendees
XTR3D Best API Implementation Award
AppHacks 2013
• 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
Education
How to Build the Future DeCal
https://www.linkedin.com/company/btfcal
Instructor
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Ishan Sharma
Growth Marketing @ Athelas
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidharth-raguraman
Sidharth Raguraman
Product @ Athelas
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanaytandon
Tanay Tandon
CEO at Athelas
Cupertino, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruv-parthasarathy-0b29b658
Dhruv Parthasarathy
CTO at Athelas (YC16/Sequoia/GC) | MIT
Mountain View, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/akipraveen
Akilesh Praveen
software engineer @ athelas ⭕
Cupertino, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-myers-a11161158
Austin Myers
Retention Specialist - Athelas
Salt Lake City, UT
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgrinstead
Marshall Grinstead
Head of Hardware Engineering at Athelas
Sunnyvale, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dstayner
Don Stayner
Product Manager at Athelas
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel1leung
Rachel L.
Business Analyst at Athelas
Fremont, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mick-majewski-8a076993
Mick Majewski
Account Executive at Athelas
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakeobrien
Jake O'Brien
Sales Manager at Athelas
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepika-bodapati-10229773
Deepika Bodapati
Founder at Athelas (YC/Sequoia/General Catalyst)
Saratoga, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wileycwjones
Wiley Jones
Lead Hardware Engineer
San Francisco, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjiwoahn
Benji Woahn
Executive Vice President Of Sales at Athelas
Orem, UT
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmeresse
Kevin Meresse
Lead Android Engineer at Nextdoor
Clayton, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/anubhakhurana
Anubha Khurana
Senior Software Solutions Engineer specializing in web development
Palo Alto, CA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/humza-khan-5611a1188
Humza Khan
Podcaster
San Francisco Bay Area
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sananth12
Anantha Natarajan Selvaganapathy
Senior Software Engineer at Facebook
San Mateo, CA
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Growth at Nextdoor
Cupertino, CA