Akshay is a Systems Engineer with expertise in embedded firmware & hardware development and enjoys building cross-functional teams that excel in the convergence of hardware & software. He has won the SFU Engineering Competition four years in a row and represented SFU at the Western Engineering Competition at UVic, UoA, UBC and UBC-O. He was. most recently co-founder of Avian Robotics – a startup developing a swarm of autonomous drones for the purposes of security.