# Akshat Singh

> Origin (YC W26) | Ex-Rivian, NVIDIA | UIUC alum

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/akshatsingh1

Hardware–software co‑designer, freshly graduated UIUC CmpE.
Building @ Origin
Built @ NVIDIA @ Rivian—cut debug time, leveled up coverage, made silicon faster.
Led: Pulse ’25 tech conference—1,500+ attendees, 30‑person crew, zero chaos.
Taught: TA for Electonic design & Math courses

Obsessed with pushing silicon + code to their limits. Hit me up for anything!

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Origin
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
🧬👨🏻‍💻

### Hardware Functional Safety Intern @ Rivian
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Made Rivian safer, more efficient and did a lot of hardware design and analysis !!

### Director @ Pulse 2024
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Logistics Co- Director @ Pulse 2024
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Marketing Director @ Pulse 2024
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Urbana-Champaign Area

### System Design Intern @ NVIDIA
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara, California, United States
Worked on blackwell!!

### Lead Course Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Teaching Assistant - Introduction to Electronics @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Taught electronics, signal processing on a lab setting for the introductory ECE class at UIUC

### Research Assistant @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
Built advanced AI cameras in UIUC’s ISEE Lab, pushing the boundaries of imaging tech.
Debugged transient power issues in LoRa Triad Spectroscopy Sensors, restoring reliable field performance.
Designed a Mini Pearl data logger with 8 RGB sensors on Arduino + custom PCBs for crop-harvest analysis.
Deployed 5 LoRa sensors in the field, driving precision agriculture through real-time spectroscopy insights.

### Teaching Assistant - Linear Algebra @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Taught Linear Algebra for a 500+ student class for 2 years

### Robotics Intern @ Sarsan Aviation Academy
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Working on building 3D printers to build aircraft parts!

### Back End Developer @ Illinois Enactus
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Prototyped IoT water sensors with Arduino/ESP32 and wired backend–frontend comms through an NGINX server for smooth data pipelines

### Electrical Team @ Illini Solar Car
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Engineered the Dash V6 solar car’s nervous system — 180+ components, microcontroller code, and signal debugging working in sync

### Dash team lead @ Illini Solar Car
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Urbana-Champaign Area

### Vice President @ Health and mind Club
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
• Spearheaded initiatives to remove the stigma surrounding mental health, fostering a supportive environment for all stakeholders, leading a team of 200

### Head Of Human Resources @ Savemehumans
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Led clean up drives in locations around UAE.

### Teaching Assistant @ Delhi Private School, Sharjah
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Taught Middle and High School students Math, Physics, CS


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Y Combinator

### Grade 12 in Mathematics and Computer Science
Delhi Private School, Sharjah


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/akshat-singh-u1uc

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Last updated: 2026-04-05