Aki Dewakar

About

With close to two decades in tech, I have a proven track record of developing and executing impactful strategy, product, and partnership initiatives that drive growth, innovation, and differentiation. I have worked with startups, Big Tech, and Fortune 500 companies across three continents, in sectors such as telecom, SaaS, consumer electronics, media, devices, compute, and cloud products. I am passionate about exploring the potential and impact of generative AI, and I am also an active investor and advisor in the AI space.

Experience

• Principal, AI Tech Partnerships at MongoDB
  Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

• Director, Strategic Alliances at Neo4j
  Apr 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

  Google, Databricks https://youtu.be/nnnfKMk3hiM

• Director, Strategic Partnerships at DataStax
  Feb 2023 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

  (Acquired by IBM) DataStax powers at-scale real-time AI applications with our Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), storage, streaming and other solutions. Examples of successful partnerships: GCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex, AnyScale, various models and crucial integrations httpsa://techcrunch.com/2022/06/15/datastax-proves-its-still-possible-to-raise-nine-figures-at-higher-valuation-in-2022/

• Meta (Full-time · 1 yr 9 mos)
  • Strategy Lead, Reality Labs Partnerships
    May 2022 - Jan 2023 · 9 mos

    Medium-long term focus

  • Product Marketing, Messenger
    May 2021 - May 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy at HP
  Dec 2019 - May 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos