Akshaya Aradhya

About Akshaya Aradhya

Akshaya Aradhya is Chief Technology Officer at ELSA, Corp. Location: Palo Alto, California, United States.

With 15+ years leading AI, ML, and large-scale distributed systems, I’ve built and scaled engineering orgs and platforms used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. My work spans GitHub (Microsoft), Netflix, LiveRamp, Intuit, and most recently Oscilar - where I served as the VP of Engineering and scaled the company globally while building AI-first risk decisioning used by fintechs and financial institutions. At GitHub, I helped shape the technical foundation behind data services, search, storage, and core infrastructure supporting 150M+ developers - including components used by GitHub Copilot. At Netflix, I built ML and analytics platforms that powered real-time experimentation, content personalization, and petabyte-scale data processing. At LiveRamp, I led distributed engineering teams building data systems and identity infrastructure leveraged by major enterprises around the world. I’m now incredibly excited to join ELSA as Chief Technology Officer, where we are pushing the boundaries of speech recognition, pronunciation modeling, and generative AI to unlock confident communication for the 1.5 billion non-native English speakers around the globe. ELSA’s proprietary model stack - built for accent robustness, phoneme-level precision, and hyper-personalized learning - has already empowered 50M+ learners worldwide. We’re just getting started. Beyond building AI systems at scale, I’m passionate about ethical AI, broadening access to STEM, and mentoring the next generation of global builders. I care deeply about creating technologies and teams that measurably improve people’s lives.

Additional experience

• Startup Advisor

  Independent

  Started January 2023

Education

• MBA, The Wharton School
• M.S., Southern Methodist University