Akriti Keswani

At AssemblyAI, I drive developer community growth and product adoption by positioning our voice AI streaming APIs as the optimal solution for voice agent builders. As a part of my role, I

• Lead community engagement strategy across Discord, Twitter, newsletters, and developer events to build an engaged ecosystem around voice AI streaming use cases
• Execute integrated marketing campaigns including hackathons, influencer partnerships, livestreams, and startup events to drive product adoption and market positioning
• Create compelling demos that showcase our industry-leading low-latency capabilities, building real-time applications that demonstrate the speed and accuracy advantages of our streaming API
• Bridge community insights to internal teams, collecting developer feedback and relaying it to support, product, and engineering to accelerate product innovation
• Maintain our developer-facing content ecosystem, ensuring YouTube, documentation, and educational resources align with our competitive positioning and product updates

At Airbyte, I lead developer advocacy initiatives that empower engineers across the data and AI ecosystem to build sophisticated data pipelines. As a part of my role, I

• Architect AI demo applications that reduce implementation time from weeks to minutes using vector databases, RAG, and LLM integrations
• Lead in-person workshops that convert 30% of attendees into daily active users on our cloud platform
• Create reference applications enabling engineers to launch AI pipelines in minutes with Python and Next.js
• Conduct technical meetups resulting in 400+ signups and measurable platform adoption
• Author technical blog posts and end-to-end coding tutorials that generate thousands of views and reach 10K+ monthly developers
• Design optimized data workflows that process structured and unstructured data with minimal configuration

As part of the Aladdin team at BlackRock, I contributed to building and maintaining their end-to-end investment management and operations platform. Essentially, I

• Integrated gRPC framework to streamline client-server interactions for an internal messaging system, optimizing communication for 15+ Aladdin Engineering software teams.
• Built & maintained 20+ Spring Boot microservices to refine cash allocation logic in rebalanced ETF baskets, increasing liquidity and improving financial outcomes.
• Implemented a proof of concept using LangChain, OpenAI's API and basic RAG to give context-based responses regarding internal brokerage documents.
• Product Management Rotation: Served as a key liaison between developers and ETF portfolio managers, streamlining feature prioritization and technical explanations, reducing daily meetings by 20% daily.