Akshit Srivastava

Hi, I’m Akshit. I’m pursuing my MBA at Berkeley Haas, after seven years across AI infrastructure, education, and consulting.

I enjoy working with fun teams on projects that are intellectually stimulating, societally beneficial, or both.

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Akshit Srivastava

Portfolio

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Experience

  1. 2024–2026

    Scaler

    Associate Director, Strategy

    Launched on-campus schools, MENA enterprise training and AI programs. Co-launched a Google for Startups program reaching 100K+ registrations.

    1. 2025–2026

      Evaratus (formerly Scaler AI Labs)

      Founding Team Member

      Founding team of an AI-data business supplying RL environments, evals and training data to frontier AI labs.

  2. 2022–2023

    FrontRow

    Entrepreneur in Residence

    Built an artist-led learning model that reached 170K+ monthly learners. Launched the offline business across 10+ townships.

  3. 2019–2022

    Bain & Company

    Senior Associate Consultant

    Advised on acquisitions, partnerships and venture investments. Helped an online travel business triple sales through its post-COVID turnaround.

Education

  1. 2026–2028

    University of California, Berkeley Haas

    Master of Business Administration (MBA)

  2. 2015–2019

    Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur

    Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) · Chemical Engineering

Side Projects

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  1. Family tree

    Private

    An app that maps my extended family — who's who, and how we're connected.

    Built for my family

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  2. Family workout tracker

    Private

    A workout accountability app, built with AI agents for my family.

    Built for my family

    Live site ↗ · GitHub ↗

  3. Compare a résumé with a job description, review the evidence behind the match, and prepare an application without inventing experience.

    GitHub ↗

    2026 · TypeScript

Writing

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A Work In Progmess publication artwork

On Substack

A Work In Progmess

Notes on wandering, becoming, getting lost, growing up, and figuring life out.

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Feb 2024

End of an Era, Dawn of Many More →

Nearly 2 months have passed since we ended our journey with FR. I am back in Bangalore with the aim of starting (and closing?) the job hunt.

Offscreen

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