Akhil is currently a Senior Product Designer at Meta working on GenAI for advertisers. He was also the Founding Designer/Head of Design of an AI pioneer startup, Hero - building the world's first daily assistant and AI autocomplete SDK. Akhil is also a jury member for the CES Innovation Awards, W3 Awards, Communicator Awards, and Davey Awards. He has led design for Microsoft Shopping on Bing and other Microsoft surfaces with over 100 Million users. He also helped design the Ramp Advisor console, used by some of the biggest accounting firms in the world. Furthermore, Akhil teaches interaction design online and has trained more than 250 students. He's also a public speaker who likes to talk to young and aspiring designers in design schools and design communities.