# Akshat Bubna

> Akshat Bubna is the co-founder and CTO of Modal, a cloud platform for AI workloads. An International Olympiad in Informatics gold medalist and former Scale AI engineer, he helped build a new serverless runtime that grew into a platform for inference, training, batch jobs, and agent sandboxes.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CTO at Modal Labs
- **Organizations:** Modal Labs, Scale AI
- **Nationality:** Indian
- **Education:** Mathematics and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** International Olympiad in Informatics gold medal, 2014; bronze medal, 2013., Co-founded Modal and helped develop its custom file system, container runtime, scheduler, and serverless GPU platform., Co-authored Modal's 2025 Series B announcement and 2026 technical article on serverless GPUs.

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Represented India and won bronze at the International Olympiad in Informatics in Brisbane.
- **2014** — Won gold at the International Olympiad in Informatics in Taipei, ranking 16th of 311 contestants.
- **2014-2017** — Studied Mathematics and Computer Science at MIT.
- **2018-2021** — Worked as a software engineer at Scale AI; later held a staff engineer role.
- **2021** — Joined Erik Bernhardsson as co-founder and CTO of Modal.
- **2024** — Modal welcomed the Tidbyt team.
- **2025** — Modal welcomed Jamsocket and announced an $87 million Series B.
- **2026** — Modal announced a $355 million Series C and Bubna discussed agent experience on the Latent Space podcast.

## Achievements

- International Olympiad in Informatics gold medal, 2014; bronze medal, 2013.
- Co-founded Modal and helped develop its custom file system, container runtime, scheduler, and serverless GPU platform.
- Co-authored Modal's 2025 Series B announcement and 2026 technical article on serverless GPUs.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Listed as a speaker at Modal's Runtime conference scheduled for October 1, 2026.
- **2026-07** — Discussed Modal's agent experience strategy and its infrastructure on the Latent Space podcast.
- **2026-05** — Modal announced a $355 million Series C at a $4.65 billion post-money valuation; Bubna praised the team publicly.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshat-bubna-188885103
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/akshat_b
- GitHub: https://github.com/aksh-at

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Last updated: 2026-09-29