Akshar Prabhu Desai is a Software Engineer from San Jose - Silicon Valley and is currently working for Google.
Akshar has experience building high visibility projects and has a strong background in adtech and fintech. Akshar has worked on Google Pay, Google Payment Platform on technologies like cloud tokenization, virtual cards, agentic payments and has build AdTech product for some large companies like Revcontent, Rover etc. Akshar has published research in Fintech and AI space and he writes for popular media like FintechWeekly.com
Akshar's research and writing have been citied by reputed institutions like International Monetary Fund.
Akshar has also been part of successful AI companies and the subsequence acquisition of the companies.
As a student and research engineer, Akshar has been part of Indian government funded open source projects that have been used by millions of Indian students in the field of Robotics and Embedded systems.