Akshaya Aradhya

Akshaya Aradhya is currently the CTO at Knighted - a portfolio of entities in various  industries including gaming, technology, entertainment, wellness, and hospitality. Utilizing her 17 years of experience in the tech space, spearheading data-intensive applications, ML/AI solutions, and cloud infrastructure, Akshaya leads all technological innovation across the Knighted entities. She is also an AI advisor for a startup that is building a sales/marketing copilot. Until recently, Akshaya  was the Senior Director of engineering at GitHub, where she led pivotal engineering teams that enhanced data services, search functionalities, and scalable storage and infrastructure solutions. Before that, she was director of engineering at Netflix and LiveRamp, a senior consultant at McKinsey, and a lead software development engineer at Intuit.  Akshaya has an MBA from Wharton and a computer science degree from SMU.

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