Akshay Lal

Co-Founder

London, United Kingdom12 yrs 5 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Architected leading Data Ops products for AI.
Co-founded a successful data labeling startup.
Expert in product management and engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Management and Engineering expert in the AI and E-commerce sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementEngineering

Other Skills

AI ModelsAnalyticsAnnotationBusiness Process ImprovementBusiness StrategyCompetitive AnalysisComputer VisionData AnalysisData CollectionData LabelingData OpsData ScienceDatabase DevelopmentDatabasesE-commerce

About

I have experience across Engineering, PM & ML in founder and leadership roles. Previously, I built the world's leading data labelling tools for ML teams. Right now, I'm tinkering with some ideas in football analytics. I'm also open to consulting opportunities in London/UK where I can use my unique blend of product management and engineering know-how to help teams build better products and ship faster.

Experience

Career break

Full-time parenting

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

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Telus digital ai data solutions

Senior Director, Product & Engineering

Jul 2021 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 9 mos

I architected Telus Digital's suite of Data Ops products used for data collection, annotation, search relevance tagging and LLM training. These products were used by customers in the forefront of GenAI & Autonomous vehicle technology.
I also led the efforts to scale the startup-like culture of shipping fast with quality, as Playment integrated into the Telus mothership, working with globally distributed engineering teams.

Data OpsData CollectionAnnotationSearch Relevance TaggingLLM TrainingStartup Culture+3

Playment

Co-Founder & Head of Product

Jul 2015 – Jul 2021 · 6 yrs

Playment built data labeling infrastructure to create and manage training data for AI models. Our services were targeted to accelerate AI development & time to market for computer vision applications and autonomous vehicles.

Data LabelingAI ModelsComputer VisionTraining Data ManagementProduct ManagementEngineering