Akash Mahtani is a Founding Hardware Engineer at Grid AI, where he bridges technical program execution, OEM partner integrations, and low-power sensor architecture. Blending customer-facing deployment strategy with hands-on design, he focuses on deploying resilient monitoring hardware using LoRaWAN and direct-to-satellite telemetry. Previously, he served as Founding EE at a YC-backed edge AI startup and conducted commercial and military semiconductor memory testing at Pyramid Semiconductor.