Pragy Agarwal

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in Reinforcement Learning and Algorithms.
  • Developed high-traffic web applications with proven accuracy.
  • Experienced educator with a strong mentoring background.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled Software Engineer with a focus on SAAS and EdTech solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

AlgorithmsPythonReinforcement LearningJava

Other Skills

Adobe PhotoshopBootstrapCC (Programming Language)C++CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Data StructuresDeep LearningDeep Reinforcement LearningDjangoDjango REST FrameworkFlaskFunctional ProgrammingGit

Experience

Self-employed

Independent Equity Trader

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Remote

  • Trading equities full-time. Combining a deep understanding of programming, mathematics, and market dynamics to execute high-conviction trades. Actively refining strategies, studying market behavior, and exploring innovative trading techniques.

Interviewbit

Senior Software Engineer

Sep 2019Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

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Scaler academy

Instructor & Mentor

Jul 2019Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

  • Previously known as InterviewBit Academy, Scaler is a 6-month online career accelerator to help people to take their careers to the next level without any educational, geographical, or financial constraints. Our students don’t have to pay anything until they get a well-paid job at the top companies.
  • Highlights
  • 18-45 LPA, salary range of Scaler alumni
  • 300% average jump in alumni salaries
  • 300+ teaching faculties and support staff
  • Hiring Partners
  • Scaler students have been hired at Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Flipkart, Traveloka, Razorpay, MindTickle, and many more companies.
  • Industry vetted curriculum
  • We have reverse engineered Scaler's curriculum by talking to the top product companies and understanding what skills the industry needs the most right now.
  • Get personalised guidance from the best in the business
  • Scaler Academy is more than a program - Scaler is a community of dedicated instructors, teaching assistants, industry mentors, career coaches, and the students themselves.
  • Program Details
  • Our approach focuses on a simple but rigorous learning program:
  • Live and interactive classes
  • Practice sessions with teaching assistants and fellow students
  • 1:1 mentorship with industry experts
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Media.net

Platform Engineer

Jul 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Created micro-service for entity extraction from webpage content & handling 5+ million requests per day.
  • Webpage categorization based on content and search engine results, for customers like webmd, forbes, msn - Improved existing models. Laid a pipeline for data addition and improvement.
  • Java + Spark codebase for estimating and ranking keyword performance, for serving ads. Improved data- handling capabilities 3x (10 billion rows). Made the process robust against frequent failures, and added extensive documentation.
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Pgac iit bombay

Instructor for Python Workshop

Jan 2018Jan 2018 · 0 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • 250+ participants
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Indian institute of technology, bombay

Teaching Assistant

Jul 2016Jun 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Was awarded the TA of the Month award.
  • ". . . did an outstanding job detecting and investigating cases of cheating and went beyond the call of duty in assisting D-ADAC to process these cases." - Prof. Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan
  • CS 344+386: Artificial Intelligence + Lab (Spring '18)
  • Multi class Perceptron Learning: created & graded lab assignment.
  • Mentored and invigilated a class of 117 students during lab sessions.
  • Graded quizzes and exams. Handled plagiarism detection.
  • CS 747: Foundations of Intelligent and Learning Agents (Autumn '17)
  • Linear Programming and Policy Iteration methods: created & graded lab assignment.
  • Reinforcement Learning algorithms: SARSA(λ), Q-Learning: created & graded lab assignment.
  • Graded quizzes and exams. Handled plagiarism detection.
  • CS 344+386: Artificial Intelligence + Lab (Spring '17)
  • K-Means Clustering & Classification: created & graded lab assignment.
  • Mentored and invigilated a class of 105 students during lab sessions.
  • Graded quizzes and exams.
  • CS 251: Software Systems Lab (Autumn '16)
  • Mentored 7 students in solving their lab assignments.
  • Helped in invigilation & evaluating labs, exams.
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Gateoverflow

Web Developer

Feb 2015Jun 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · https://github.com/AgarwalPragy/GATE2016_MarksEvaluator

  • Built a web application allowing users to predict their GATE results.
  • Received 15,000+ users in 2016 and 21,000+ users in 2017 within just a week.
  • Achieved 100% accuracy in predicted marks, and over 96% accuracy in predicted rank range.
  • HTML, CSS + bootstrap, Javascript + jQuery, Ajax, PHP, MySQL
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Gateoverflow group

Administrator & Moderator

Sep 2014Jun 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · fb.com/groups/core.cs

  • 170,000+ users
  • Forum for discussing Computer Science topics, and GATE preparation
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Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Master of Technology - MTech — Computer Science

Jan 2016Jan 2018

Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology(MIET)

Bachelor’s Degree — Information Technology

Jan 2010Jan 2015

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