Born in a small village near New Delhi, the 27-year-old had moved from India to Ireland at a young age, then returned to India. In 2016 he moved to the US to get a bachelor's degree from Carnegie Mellon University. “After 10 years, I split my time between California and the UAE, as I am the CTO of an AI startup company I co-founded with my father,” he told Business Insider. “

Before getting a job at Apple, Akshat revealed that he had done several internships, including a summer internship at Microsoft. "All my internships were paid, and being an international student and graduate from India, it was a life-changing amount for me. This made me realize how well it is to earn in the tech sector. ”

Then, about a year after graduating, he got his “desired job” as a software engineer on the Siri team at Apple. “I applied online because my profile was suitable for a research post. I found a place in a special team, the Web Answering Team, within Siri. I was involved in the creation of one of the earliest versions of Siri's ChatGPT-like system. “