Akash James
Founding Director - AI at NVIDIA
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAkash James is a hands-on AI architect and founder with nine years of experience building production-grade computer vision and multimodal GenAI systems that move from scrappy MVPs to revenue-driving platforms. Currently leading AI at a stealth video-first startup, he specializes in GPU-accelerated inference, embedded/edge deployments (DeepStream, TensorRT, Jetson), and agentic RAG with graph-native retrieval. A former UC Berkeley research scholar and NVIDIA Jetson ambassador, he blends rigorous research with pragmatic engineering—optimizing networks for efficiency (fp16/int8) and shipping low-latency pipelines (FastAPI, SSE, Docker, parallelism). He also mentors hackathons, contributes to open source, and runs a personal assistant project (Veronica), showing a knack for turning experimental ideas into useful products CFOs respect. An uncommon strength: he surfaces business requirements before PRDs exist, aligning architecture tightly to user and commercial outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Research Scholar Artificial Intelligence, Research Scholar Artificial Intelligence at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at REVA University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (46)
classification9
computer-vision8
object-detection8
yolov58
coreml8
deepstream8
inference8
nvidia8
tensorrt8
onnx8
pytorch8
tflite8
image-classification8
gstreamer7
instance-segmentation7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kingardor/kingardor
Jun 2021 - Aug 2025
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
kn1ghtf1re/kn1ghtf1re.github.io
Feb 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:45 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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