Akshaya Srivatsa is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Maxima, an agentic accounting platform built to automate the month-end close, reduce errors and audit risk, and give accounting teams more time for strategic work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Nebius — the ultimate cloud for AI innovators.Nebius provides AI infrastructure you can count on, combining reliability and speed with flexibility and engineering support unmatched by hyperscalers.AI leaders like Meta, Shopify, and Higgsfield already partner with Nebius to run their AI workloads. Plus, venture-backed startups can save up to $150,000 on compute costs when they apply for access. Visit nebius.com or nebius.com/startups to learn more~~~~~~~~~~~~~At Maxima, he leads product, design, security, and post-sales while working directly with every signed customer. Previously, he was an Engineering Leader at WhatsApp, where he led teams responsible for messaging integrity across 50M businesses and 2B+ users, including machine learning systems for anti-spam, fraud, and messaging quality and WhatsApp’s large-scale OTP authentication system. Before WhatsApp, he spent more than three years as VP of Engineering at Bolt, where he helped build checkout, payments, and fraud prevention products from an early stage and led a team of 30+ engineers. Earlier in his career, he worked on large-scale distributed systems at Twitter and systems engineering at Marvell, and conducted research in inexact computing at Rice University.Topics
Can agentic AI finally transform an accounting industry that has barely changed in two decades?
What does it take to build AI agents that can handle complex, company-specific financial workflows reliably?
What can product leaders learn from building high-scale systems at WhatsApp and Bolt?
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