# Akik Kothekar

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akik

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
YouTube Nitrate Platform

### MDP Software Engineering Intern @ ProQuest
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, MI
ProQuest AI Powered Smart Search Assistant MDP Project-
https://mdp.engin.umich.edu/2020-proquest-ai/

### Software Engineering Intern @ eightfold.ai
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Lenskart.com
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru Area, India
Developed a Face Shape classifier which is part of a larger recommendation engine that would recommend eyewear styles based on one's face shape

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Interactive Sensing and Computing Lab at the University of Michigan
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor
Worked on Interactive RFID, a project that aims at using RFID tags as cheap, paper-thin, battery-free, and ultra-low-cost sensors by monitoring changes in the communication between the tag and the reader. The applications of this technology include passive activity inferencing, interactive physical objects, and human-robot interaction. I am carrying out this project under the guidance of Professor Alanson Sample.

### Research Assistant @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mumbai Area, India
Worked under the mentorship of Prof. S. Baskar in the Mathematics Department to Model the Successive Over-Relaxation Solver algorithm, used for efficient computer graphics processing.
Researched mathematical concepts such as maximal norms, convergence analysis and various iterative algorithms to solve linear systems to implement the algorithm.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science and Engineering - BSE in Computer Science
University of Michigan
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### International Baccalaureate Diploma
Singapore International School, Mumbai
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akikkothekar
- Website: https://akikkothekar.xyz/

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Last updated: 2026-03-23