Gil Akos is Founder and CEO of Astra. He has deep experience with real-time payments and building platforms. Gil is a technologist at heart: a self-taught engineer who later studied optimization and complex systems at Columbia University.

At Astra, he designed the Payments Cloud architecture and its integrated system for settlement orchestration and risk management, now powering payments infrastructure for enterprise clients like DoorDash.

Gil believes that great software is forged, not invented, and that the most valuable technology should do compounding work for those who use it.