Akersh Srivastava
VP, Product Management at Xanadu
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkersh Srivastava is a Chief Product Officer and founder with a decade of experience building AI, developer platform, and infrastructure products from 0→1 through global scale. He’s led developer ecosystems and open source strategy at Meta and Chainlink Labs and pioneered voice and AI developer tooling early in Alexa’s history, blending product, engineering, and devrel disciplines. His work spans AI/ML (LLMs, NLP, multimodal), cloud and distributed systems, web3, and translating deep R&D into adoptable products—most recently commercializing molecular data storage via a UW spin-out. Comfortable in high-complexity technical environments, he combines systems thinking and narrative clarity to grow platform adoption and developer ecosystems. An active contributor to developer tooling repos, he also has hands-on experience resolving integration and audio playback issues in Alexa sample projects, reflecting pragmatic engineering chops alongside strategic leadership.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Cal Poly PomonaUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Stackoverflow
43reputation
18kreached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
alexa-skills-kit10
nodejs9
testing8
scrapy6
php6
web-crawler6
python6
regex6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexa-samples/skill-sample-nodejs-audio-player
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
An Alexa Skill Sample showing how to play long form audio in 3P-skills
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Akersh primarily focused on fixing merge conflicts within the project, indicating a role in managing code integration. They also made changes to the core application logic, specifically modifying state handlers and audio event handlers. Additionally, the user contributed to testing functionality by modifying test files.
audio
akersh-s/sample-skill-nodejs-sauce-boss
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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