Aaksha Meghawat
Founder @ Kashikoi (YC) | Ex-Moveworks | Apple | CMU
Experience
Career
2025Kashikoi (YC)
FounderFounder · San Francisco, CA · 2025 – Present
2022Moveworks
Staff Machine Learning Engineer · San Francisco, CA · 2022 – 2025
2017Apple
Senior Machine Learning Engineer · Cupertino, CA · 2017 – 2022
2015Carnegie Mellon University
Machine Learning Research · Pittsburgh, PA · 2015 – 2017
2014Sutherland Global Services
Data Scientist, Manager, Analytics · Mumbai Metropolitan Region · 2014 – 2015
2013Opera Solutions
Software Specialist · New Delhi · 2013 – 2014
2013Morgan Stanley
Technology Analyst (Intern) · Mumbai · 2013
2012London Business School
Research Assistant · London · 2012
2011Brevan Howard
Research Intern · New York, United States · 2011
2011Mentored-Research
Intern- Equity Research · 2011
2011Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, BITS Pilani
Coordinator, Out-of-Box Conference · BITS Pilani · 2011
2011Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani
Captain, Athletics Team · BITS Pilani · 2011
2010Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani
Professional Assistant, Computer Programming II · BITS Pilani · 2010
2010WATConsult - Social Media Agency
Blogger, Social Media · Mumbai Area, India · 2010
- 2009
Trusted Shares and Investments
Software Programmer (Intern) · Mumbai Area, India · 2009 – 2010
Bio
Founder, Kashikoi. Aaksha led the Simulation & Evaluation stack at Moveworks(ServiceNow) shipping 250+ customized enterprise ready agents to Fortune 500 and federal agencies. Aaksha has done award winning NSF sponsored research in Transformers at CMU (long before OpenAI made them cool). She shipped edge speech recognition models on 1bn+ iPhones (for the most esoteric dialects you can think of) at Apple. The innovation behind this was nominated for a Best Paper at Interspeech 2021.