About the Founder
Meet Akshay Sarode, the mechanical engineer turned roboticist building AceSense to make measured, honest tennis feedback accessible from a phone-recorded video.
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 that turns standard phone footage into per-shot analysis, with the accuracy of each component measured and published on the [accuracy page](/accuracy) rather than described with adjectives.
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 deeper player-biomechanics analysis to make measured movement tracking accessible directly from standard match footage.