Akshat Bubna
Akshat Bubna is the co-founder and CTO of Modal. He previously worked at Scale AI and won India’s first International Olympiad in Informatics gold medal in 2014.
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Key facts
Education and Early Work
He studied computer science and mathematics at MIT and worked at D. E. Shaw.[1]
2013IOI Bronze Medal
In 2013, Bubna represented India at the International Olympiad in Informatics and won bronze.[2]
July 2014IOI Gold Medal
In July 2014, he won gold at the IOI in Taipei. IARCS records it as India’s first gold medal at the competition.[3]
The official IOI results place him 16th among 311 contestants.[2]
2021Scale AI and Modal
A speaker biography published by Scale on June 21, 2021 identifies him as an engineering manager leading a team developing data-labeling software and systems.[1]
Bubna co-founded ModalModalModal is a cloud infrastructure company founded by Erik Bernhardsson and Akshat Bubna. Operated by New York-based Modal Labs, Inc., its platform lets developers configure cloud CPUs, GPUs and containers in code for model inference, training, batch processing and isolated execution of AI agent workloads.Open the full entry with Erik Bernhardsson. Investor Amplify dates the company’s founding to 2021.[4][5]
March 14, 2024HTTP Infrastructure Contributions
A Modal engineering article credits Bubna for work and design discussions on modal-http, its Rust service for handling HTTP and WebSocket requests.[6]
April 9, 2026Sandbox Prototype Retrospective
An Amplify interview article states that Bubna built the first Modal sandbox version in a weekend, while stressing that it relied on the team’s existing container, filesystem, isolation, and scheduling infrastructure.[7]
May 12, 2026Serverless GPU Article
Bubna co-authored Modal’s article on serverless GPUs. It describes capacity buffers, a custom filesystem, and CPU/GPU checkpoint restoration as ways to reduce startup delays.[8]
July 8, 2026Agent Infrastructure Views
In a Latent Space interview, he said the SDK team had shifted its focus to agent experience and advocated hard boundaries for sandbox permissions.[9]
October 1, 2026Runtime Speaker Listing
Modal’s speaker page for its October 1, 2026 Runtime event lists Bubna as co-founder and CTO.[10]
Related Organizations, Websites, and Public Accounts
Modal: Official website: https://modal.com/ (opens in a new window).[5]
MIT: Official website: https://www.mit.edu/ (opens in a new window).[11]
Scale AI: Official website: https://scale.com/ (opens in a new window).[12]
D. E. Shaw: Official website: https://www.deshaw.com/ (opens in a new window).[13]
International Olympiad in Informatics: Official website: https://ioinformatics.org/ (opens in a new window).[14]
Public X account: https://x.com/akshat_b (opens in a new window).[8]
Public LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a social networking platform for professionals. It was founded in 2002 by Reid Hoffman and others, launched in 2003, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2011; after Microsoft acquired it for approximately $26.2 billion in 2016, it became a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary. Its revenue comes from membership subscriptions, advertising, and recruitment solutions.Open the full entry profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshat-bubna-188885103 (opens in a new window).[9]
Public GitHub profile: https://github.com/aksh-at (opens in a new window).[15]
Sources
- Humans-in-the-Loop Don't Perform Gradient Descent (opens in a new window)
- Akshat Bubna (opens in a new window)
- Indian Computing Olympiad Archives 2014 - IARCS (opens in a new window)
- Portfolio | Amplify Partners (opens in a new window)
- About Modal (opens in a new window)
- Lambda on hard mode: Inside Modal's web infrastructure (opens in a new window)
- Behind the scenes of Modal sandboxes (opens in a new window)
- How we achieved truly serverless GPUs (opens in a new window)
- Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO (opens in a new window)
- Runtime - a conference by Modal (opens in a new window)
- 麻省理工学院官方网站 (opens in a new window)
- Reliable AI Systems for Critical Decisions | Scale AI (opens in a new window)
- The D. E. Shaw Group (opens in a new window)
- International Olympiad in Informatics (opens in a new window)
- aksh-at (Akshat Bubna) · GitHub (opens in a new window)