Akshay V Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Remote, In

At EdZola Technologies, we're driven by the belief that technology should be accessible and impactful, especially for those who strive to make a difference. Founded in 2020, our journey began with a vision to bridge the gap between advanced technology and non-profit organizations.In my role as Founder & CEO, I've been passionately leading our team to not only connect non-profits to cutting-edge technology tools but also ensure they are empowered to use them effectively. We specialize in providing comprehensive implementation and training support, which is the cornerstone of our approach to sustainable tech adoption.As we move forward, my focus remains on expanding our reach, innovating our solutions, and deepening our impact globally. The goal is to make technology a driving force for good, enabling non-profits to focus more on their core mission - creating a positive change in society.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

- As part of my fellowship I had the opportunity to teach Science, Social and English to 150 kids in a government high school in Pulianthope, Chennai. The community I teach is one of the high risk communities with the highest number of juvenile crimes reported in Taminadu. Following are some of my accomplishments during the fellowship. - Strategised and raised an amount of Rs.1.7 lakhs towards classroom infrastructure, setting up a technology classroom and a library. The library currently has over 240 books for readers across reading levels! - Partnered with around 20 organisations during the course of two years to bring in multiple opportunities for the students in the areas of arts, olympiads, personal and mental wellbeing, sports and other extra curricular activities. - Created technology solutions, where assessment facilitation, evaluation and analysis was done seamlessly , which was time efficient and helped in understanding student learning levels which in turn helped in planning differentiated learning plans and also saved around 150+ man hours of time. - Facilitated tech based learning which aggregated growth in digital literacy levels, deepened the understanding of science, reading level improvements (readworks.org, readtheory.org) , writing (quill,org) and math (TuxMath, KhanAcademy and Jungroo Learning) - Introduced fundamentals of Computer Science, Basics of algorithms and computational thinking and Introduction to Scratch and Microbit to students which increased their problem solving and critical thinking skills. - Part of the core organising team of Chennai Students Kondattam (CSK) where I took the lead for Finance and created strategies for fundraising for the event. CSK is TeachForIndia Chennai's largest event where 3000+ children participate in over 30+ competitions from 40 + different schools.- Was invited to be a part of UNESCO TECH Conference in Visakhapatnam during 10-12 December,2019.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

One of the highly selective programs, I was part of the education vertical in this world’s longest entrepreneurship program on wheels covering an 8,000 km train journey across the length and breadth of India. We got the opportunity to study 15 role models in the development sector across different domains. It helped me gain lot of different perspectives by interacting with the participants and brainstorming with them.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

- Designed and developed multiple features for Zoho Analytics, which is a cloud based data analytics and visualisation tool. I was involved in redesigning dashboards.- Worked in the crucial stage of development of the on premise version of Zoho Analytics which included working in a high pressure startup like environment .- Platforms used - IntelliJ, Mercurial hg, SAAS Framework .- Skills - Java, JSP , PostgresDB, JavaScript, jQuery , HTML , CSS.

Master Of Science - Ms, Social Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Be, Computer Science And Engineering