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title: "About the Founder"
description: "Meet Akshay Sarode, the mechanical engineer turned roboticist building AceSense to make professional-grade tennis feedback accessible on any phone."
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date: "2026-06-04"
author: "Akshay Sarode"
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<h2>Akshay Sarode</h2>
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<span class="location-dot"></span> Gothenburg, Sweden
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<p class="founder-role">Creative Technologist & Roboticist</p>

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Mechanical engineer turned roboticist based in Sweden. He builds computer vision systems, embedded solutions, and interactive software that connects physical motion with intelligent tracking.
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<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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## 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.

## Core Expertise

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  <div class="expertise-tag">Robotics</div>
  <div class="expertise-tag">Computer Vision</div>
  <div class="expertise-tag">XR / VR / AR</div>
  <div class="expertise-tag">Embedded Systems</div>
  <div class="expertise-tag">IoT</div>
  <div class="expertise-tag">Three.js</div>
  <div class="expertise-tag">Unity</div>
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