Akbar Dhanaliwala

Akbar is the CEO of Lager Data and an embedded engineer with 16 years of experience. He has developed firmware and hardware for numerous industry-leading companies including SolarCity, Pax, Juul, Volkswagen, and Bosch.

Before Lager, he was Director of Engineering for the a16z-backed startup Ringly and co-founder of Minna, an award-winning sexual health device company, and Pocobor, a Bay Area embedded systems design firm.

He holds a BS in Engineering from Cornell University and an MS in Engineering from Stanford University.

You can read his thoughts on the future of firmware at https://lagerdata.com/fieldguide