About the Founder
Meet Akshay Sarode, the mechanical engineer turned roboticist building AceSense to make professional-grade tennis feedback accessible on any phone.
Akshay Sarode
Gothenburg, SwedenCreative Technologist & Roboticist
Mechanical engineer turned roboticist based in Sweden. He builds computer vision systems, embedded solutions, and interactive software that connects physical motion with intelligent tracking.
Akshay built the first version of AceSense in 2024-2025 after spending too many evenings filming his own tennis matches on a phone propped against a backpack and getting nothing useful out of the footage. The project merged his technical expertise in tracking physical movement with his love for tennis.
His founding observation was simple: amateur tennis players pay significant fees for coaching they only receive once or twice a week, and have no feedback loop during independent play. Chaining open-source tracking models like TrackNet for ball detection, MediaPipe for pose tracking, and CatBoost for temporal hit classification, he engineered a platform capable of high accuracy on standard phone footage.
Current Focus
Akshay is focusing full-time on expanding the computer vision capabilities of AceSense. This includes adding junior court layouts, public benchmark datasets, and advanced player biomechanics to make professional-grade tracking accessible directly from standard match footage.