Primary Job Title Co-founder, CEO Primary Organization Astra
Location Menlo Park, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Gil Akos is an expert in real-time payments and embedded fintech. He is a self-taught engineer with a background in optimization and complex systems from Columbia University.
As Astra's founding CEO, he designed the platform architecture for the API's risk engine and settlement orchestration system. Gil believes that great software is
forged, not invented and that the most valuable technology should do compounding work for those who use it.
