# Aakash Adesara

> Building @ Consensus

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aakashadesara

## Work Experience
### Engineer (AI) @ Consensus
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Co-Founder @ SellScale
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
SellScale leverages AI to supercharge enterprise growth teams. Backed by investors from Pear VC, Browder Capital, Ovo Fund and a syndicate of angels & GTM/AI experts from companies like Dropbox, Figma, Notion, Athelas, Moveworks, and more.

www.sellscale.com

### Engineering Lead (Growth) @ Athelas
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Led growth engineering team to scale GTM to serve more modern healthcare organizations. Revenue cycle management, remote patient monitoring, computer vision powered blood diagnostics, & more. (YC 16, Sequoia & General Catalyst backed)

www.athelas.com

### Engineer (Growth / ML) @ Nextdoor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built ML product to turn spammers into customers, launched Android agency app for government users.

### Engineer (Data / ML) @ Lyft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco
Optimized dynamic price models for sustained marketplace balance + data visualization.

### Research (ML / HCI) @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, CA
Built named entity-recognition to feed into news synthesis project (50k+ news sources)

### Executive Director @ Cal Hacks
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California
Led team that organized an annual 36-hour hackathon hosting 2,200+ students. Founded: Cal Hacks Fellowship.

### KP Engineering Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Engineer (Android) @ Yelp
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Integrated restaurant reservation IP (via Acquisition) into Yelp's mobile waitlist feature

### Lightspeed Venture Fellow @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, California
Built Memory Labs, AI voice assistant for Dementia patients. NLP, integrated hardware

### Intern (JAVA) @ Intrax
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco
Built internal tools for HR automations and workflows.

### Teen Advisory Board (Founding Member) @ Cupertino Library Foundation
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Cupertino, California
Started board that organizes and runs community events (book discussions, hackathons, socials)


## Education
### Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aaadesara

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Last updated: 2026-04-05