Akash Thakkar

Akash Thakkar is an award-winning composer, sound designer, and public speaker within the video game industry. Akash has worked as a musician on games such as Destiny, and was the sound designer on the indie hit Hyper Light Drifter.

Inspired at a very young age by the music of his favorite video games, he eventually married his two favorite things, video games and music, to find his career.

He is a graduate from the Berklee College of Music where he was both an instructor and leader of the game audio community.

Akash has worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as both a researcher and audio designer.

His aim in composing and designing music and sound for video games is to provide a massive emotional impact to everyone who plays them.

Akash absolutely loves to share his knowledge and has had the honor of speaking at events and conferences around the world.

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