# Akshaya Dinesh

**AI-native product leader**

AI-native product leader with 6+ years shipping products across startups and scale. Experienced as a 2x acquired founder with a background in product, engineering, and go-to-market.

Profile: https://path.cv/akshaya

*Last updated: August 2026*

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## Experience

### Entrepreneur in Residence at Bain Capital Ventures
*Jan 2025 – Jan 2026*

Explored and invested in AI coding agents, marketing automation, and consumer health. Built and spun out a consumer AI health agent for patients with chronic conditions.

### Product Manager at Substack
*Jan 2024 – Jan 2025*

Worked on creator tools in the mobile app to help creators grow and monetize audiences. Launched mobile-first features including stats surfaces and video posts.

### Founder & CEO at Spellbound
*Jan 2021 – Jan 2024*

Built a no-code platform for e-commerce brands to embed interactive experiences in emails. Led product to drive a 300% increase in email conversions for customers. Acq by Substack.

### Co-Founder at Nova
*Mar 2020 – Jul 2021*

Founded a professional community platform for Gen Z that scaled to hundreds of campuses. Raised $3.7M+ in funding before acquisition by Handshake.

### Software Engineer Intern at Kitty Hawk Corporation
*Jan 2020 – Dec 2020*

Worked on Python eVTOL flight test automation.

### Software Engineer/PM Intern at Microsoft
*Jan 2019 – Dec 2019*

Shipped the first Microsoft Teams CarPlay app to 6M+ users.

### Software Engineer Intern at Bloomberg
*Jan 2018 – Dec 2018*

Software engineering internship.

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## Skills

Artificial Intelligence · Product Management · Software Engineering · Go-to-Market Strategy · Python · Machine Learning · No-code Development · Mobile App Development · RAG

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## Projects

### Research Paper

Published first-author paper in IEEE Xplore on machine learning diagnosis of Parkinson's disease from voice recordings.

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## Awards

- **Thiel Fellow** — Thiel Fellowship (Jan 2021)
- **Forbes 30 Under 30** — Forbes (Jan 2021)
- **Teen Vogue 21 Under 21** — Teen Vogue (Jan 2021)
- **1st Place, TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon** — TechCrunch (Jan 2017)

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## Links

- **LinkedIn**: https://linkedin.com/in/akshayadinesh