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Aaksha Meghawat

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Founder at Kashikoi

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedKashikoi · YC

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Aaksha Meghawat led the Simulation & Evaluation stack at Moveworks, which was acquired by ServiceNow, where she worked on enterprise AI agents. She previously conducted NSF-sponsored research on transformers at Carnegie Mellon University and developed speech recognition models at Apple that shipped on over 1 billion devices.

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Aaksha went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Carnegie Mellon UniversityY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2025

Experience

  1. Kashikoi (YC)Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco, California, United States
  2. MoveworksStaff Machine Learning Engineer2022 — 2025San Francisco, California, United States
  3. AppleSenior Machine Learning Engineer2017 — 2022Cupertino, California, United States
  4. Carnegie Mellon UniversityMachine Learning Research2015 — 2017Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  5. Sutherland Global ServicesData Scientist, Manager, Analytics2014 — 2015Mumbai Metropolitan Region
  6. Opera SolutionsSoftware Specialist2013 — 2014New Delhi, Delhi, India
  7. Morgan StanleyTechnology Analyst (Intern)2013Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  8. London Business SchoolResearch Assistant2012London, England, United Kingdom
  9. Brevan HowardResearch Intern2011New York, United States
  10. Mentored-ResearchIntern- Equity Research2011
  11. Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, BITS PilaniCoordinator, Out-of-Box Conference2011BITS Pilani
  12. Birla Institute of Technology and Science PilaniCaptain, Athletics Team2011BITS Pilani
  13. Birla Institute of Technology and Science PilaniProfessional Assistant, Computer Programming II2010BITS Pilani
  14. WATConsult - Social Media AgencyBlogger, Social Media2010Mumbai Metropolitan Region
  15. Trusted Shares and InvestmentsSoftware Programmer (Intern)2009 — 2010Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Skills & more

Team Leadership3ManagementNatural Language Processing (NLP)6Deep Learning5Research21Machine Learning6Programming13Event Management5Data Analysis4Analytics5Entrepreneurship3Algorithms2
+12 moreBusiness AnalysisNatural Language ProcessingProject ManagementCC++PythonSQLJavaMatlabRC (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)
  • Grade 1 Music (Guitar) with Distinction — Trinity College London
  • R Programming — Coursera
  • The Data Scientist’s Toolbox — Coursera
  • Machine Learning — Coursera

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Who is Aaksha Meghawat?
Aaksha Meghawat led the Simulation & Evaluation stack at Moveworks, which was acquired by ServiceNow, where she worked on enterprise AI agents. She previously conducted NSF-sponsored research on transformers at Carnegie Mellon University and developed speech recognition models at Apple that shipped on over 1 billion devices.
Where does Aaksha Meghawat work?
Aaksha Meghawat is Founder of Kashikoi.
What companies did Aaksha Meghawat found?
Aaksha Meghawat founded Kashikoi.
Where did Aaksha Meghawat go to school?
Aaksha Meghawat studied at Carnegie Mellon University (Masters, Language Technologies Institute); Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (B.E.(Hons.) Computer Science, Masters in Mathematics); Stanford Continuing Studies (European Philosophy, Philosophy).

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