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Aaksha Meghawat

Aaksha Meghawat

Founder at Kashikoi, ex-Apple & Moveworks ML Engineer, CMU alumna

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San Francisco, California
Joined April 2025

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Summary

Aaksha is a visionary founder, currently leading Kashikoi (YC X25) to develop a simulation engine for benchmarking AI products. Her work at Kashikoi builds upon her extensive experience in developing and scaling AI agents at Moveworks, demonstrating a strong entrepreneurial drive and expertise in cutting-edge AI technologies. ycombinator+2
With a background as a Machine Learning Engineer and Tech Lead at Apple, Aaksha has significantly contributed to global-scale projects, including the deployment of edge speech recognition models on over a billion iPhones. Her innovation in this area was recognized with a Best Paper nomination at Interspeech 2021, showcasing her ability to deliver impactful and technically advanced solutions. google+2
Aaksha's academic foundation in AI and ML is rooted in her graduate research at Carnegie Mellon University, where she conducted award-winning NSF-sponsored research in Transformers. This strong theoretical background, combined with her industry experience, enables her to bridge academic innovation with practical product development, creating safe and effective AI systems. aaksham+2
Beyond her technical prowess, Aaksha is an aspiring polymath with diverse interests spanning technology, society, history, and philosophy, as evidenced by her personal blog and Stanford Continuing Studies coursework in European Philosophy. She believes in measuring her life by impact and combining technology with human complexities for positive societal change. aaksham+2

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Aaksha has a keen interest in everything that lies at the intersection of technology, society, history and philosophy, aspiring to be a polymath. aaksham

She has a passion for art and believes she was an artist before becoming an engineer, crediting the art center at Sahyadri School. aaksham

She blogs about personal reflections, tributes, and analyses of TV series like 'The Diplomat'. aaksham