Akash Yalagach is currently the Chief Technology Officer at KaleidEO Space Systems Pvt. Ltd., a SatSure Company, where he is building a bridge between the upstream and downstream sector of the earth observation ecosystem with the team. He is a systems thinker and enjoys being at the intersection of technology and business to bring them together to create meaningful solutions. Earlier, he was at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for 7 years as a Mechanical Assembly, Integration and testing (AIT) engineer for launch vehicles after completing his Bachelor in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Space Science & Technology (IIST).
He was a part of the AIT team for 22 launch vehicle missions of PSLV, GSLV and LVM3 at ISRO. He was a team member for the Crew Module Re-Entry Experiment launched on the maiden launch of LVM3 and also the launch team for the Chandrayaan-2 (2nd mission to the Moon by India). He has completed his masters from the University of Surrey. He was awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue his master's. He is also currently pursuing his PhD in Deployable Spacecraft Mechanisms from the University of Auckland. Outside work, he enjoys playing a game of squash and going on a hike.