Akshay Agrawal is a software engineer and AI developer-tools founder who co-founded Marimo, an open-source, AI-native reactive Python notebook environment that CoreWeave announced a definitive agreement to acquire on October 30, 2025. Akshay Agrawal's Twitter Score is 9.8 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #96,042 among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Akshay Agrawal co-founded Marimo, which raised a $5M seed round led by Anthony Goldbloom and Shyam Mani at AIX Ventures. Following CoreWeave's acquisition, Agrawal confirmed that the full Marimo team would continue at CoreWeave and that the open-source notebook would remain free and permissively licensed. Before founding Marimo, he previously worked as an engineer on the Google Brain team, where he contributed to building TensorFlow.
Akshay Agrawal has also contributed to open-source scientific computing through his work as a core developer on CVXPY, a convex optimization library, and has conducted research spanning machine learning, optimization, and vector embeddings. He authored the Minimum-Distortion Embedding book and developed PyMDE, a related Python library. His account has published 1,672 posts and has 5,330 followers as of October 2026. He has been mentioned by 3 accounts, with 6 total mentions.
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