Dhruv Agarwal

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 11 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Raised $1M for Middleware in three years.
  • Improved team productivity by 30% within three months.
  • Led a team of 35 at A.P. Moller - Maersk.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Logistics expert with strong leadership in engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipEngineering ManagementProduct Management

Other Skills

AJAXAWS SNSAgile MethodologiesAnalyticsApacheApache KafkaBluetooth Low EnergyCC++CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)CassandraDjangoEmber.jsGit

About

At Middleware, the focus is on empowering engineering leaders to elevate their teams through actionable insights and workflow optimization. This commitment has been the cornerstone of our approach, aligning with a culture that prizes continuous improvement and technological innovation. While managing a sizable team at A.P. Moller - Maersk, we drove process improvements and people development, culminating in significant operational efficiencies. Our team's accomplishments include enhancing tracking systems and optimizing inventory, yielding a substantial reduction in operating costs and customer complaints.

Experience

Agent cargo

Founder & CEO

Jan 2026Present · 2 mos

  • AI Agents for Logistics Customer Service

Middleware

Co-Founder & CEO

Mar 2022Present · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Middleware assists engineering leaders in enabling their engineers to perform better by providing actionable insights from existing tools such as Git, JIRA, Calendar, and assists in easily identifying workflow bottlenecks so they can focus on high impact initiatives.
  • Raised $1M from Grayscale VC, Transpose Platform and wonderful set of angels. Over 3 years, built a profitable business helping 100s of teams globally gain at least 30% productivity in the first 3 months of Middleware usage.
  • We didn't just build an analytics layer, we shifted cultures within engineering teams.
  • As always, I will be happy to help you in setting the right processes for your engineering team :)
GitJIRAWorkflow OptimizationAnalyticsLeadershipEngineering Management

A.p. moller - maersk

Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2021Feb 2022 · 6 mos · Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

  • Had a great time working with the world's logistics leader!
  • Managed a team of 35 people for the Supply Chain Management Platform.
Process ImprovementPeople ManagementLeadershipEngineering Management

Shuttl

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Sep 2019Jul 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Over my 2 year stint as an EM, I have led intracity and international consumer facing tech teams. My team size was ~15 engineers (backend, mobile, QA)
  • As an EM, my core responsibilities are to align with the product and do project management for my team. I am also responsible for people development in my team which includes career growth and appraisals.
  • Some value delivered by my team includes:
  • Built driver and customer gps pipeline.
  • Built ETA and Tracking enhancements in Shuttl app which reduced complaints by 70%
  • Inventory optimisation in the consumer business PAN India which reduced our operating costs by 20% on high occupancy route.
  • New customers are allowed to book anytime unlike the opening time for regular customers which helped increase our conversion by 10%.
  • Automated numerous marketing operations in payments, subscriptions and campaigns which helped reduce churn by 25% and hence increased our growth.
  • Reduced service error rate to 20 errors/Million requests from 250 errors/Million requests.
PythonProcess ImprovementPeople ManagementProduct DesignLeadershipProduct Management+1

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2019Sep 2019 · 5 mos

  • Automated CRM(Clevertap) integration at scale. Developed an event pipeline to sync over millions of events per day.
  • Developed a compeletely instrumented webhook processor to do actions at scale via the CRM. The processor processes millions of actions required for growth at Shuttl
  • Evangelised importance of instrumentation and documentation within the team. We extensively use Datadog for instrumentation and document all ideas for the team before developing them.

Software Engineer

Jun 2018Mar 2019 · 9 mos

  • Major contributor in the rewrite of a stressed monolith to numerous distributed services at scale.
  • Developed the coupons engine, orders and payments services as a sole developer
  • Built employee transport management system as a part of the enterprise tech team.

Kayako

Product Engineer

Jul 2016Jun 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Automated Sales pipeline for +10k customers. Integrated Salesforce with customer product lifecycle.
  • Automated billing pipeline for $8M ARR business. Integrated system with Zuora (for subscription and billing management).
  • Controlled first successful technical implementation of product tracking using ETL pipeline built over Segment, Autopilot, and Mixpanel for mapping user journey.
  • Engineered infrastructure for automated product internationalization, increasing adoption across 30 languages.
  • Co-hosted weekly customer interviews as part of the Growth team.
  • Shipped core product features like Remember Me support, UI improvements, SLA improvements.

Owasp foundation

Student Developer

Apr 2016Aug 2016 · 4 mos

  • - Developed a stand-alone tool for Offensive Web Testing Framework(OWTF) using python which converts raw HTTP request to scripts in desired language.

Codementor

Expert Mentor

Nov 2015Mar 2016 · 4 mos

  • I mentor people on their technical queries and doubts.

Hackerearth

Software Developer Internship

Jun 2015Jul 2015 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Engineered infrastructure of a real-time smart hit-counter analysis of about all web pages(nearly 2M) on HackerEarth using Cassandra and Kafka.
  • Developed a Package Dependency Management system on distributed machines.
  • Developed an open source library hackerearth-box (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hackerearth-box)

Redcarpetup.com

Intern

Jan 2015Apr 2015 · 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Developed an iBeacon for indoor localization in multiple restaurants. The communication was secured using GATT. Developed the iBeacon using nordic BLE chip.

Mozilla

Mozilla winter of security

Aug 2014Feb 2015 · 6 mos

  • Designed a cross platform firewall driver for Mozilla’s real-time digital forensics and investigation platform. My contribution was developing the linux module using CGo.

Veddis labs

Intern

Jun 2014Aug 2014 · 2 mos

  • Engineered backend infrastructure for a dating app. Used Django to create API, Infographs using FB Graph API and push notifications using AWS SNS.

Dtu open lab project

Web Developer

Mar 2014Jul 2014 · 4 mos

Ieee-dtu

Web Developer

Jan 2013Jan 2014 · 1 yr

Education

Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2012Jan 2016

SACHDEVA PUBLIC SCHOOL

Jan 1998Jan 2010

Maharaja Agrasen Model School

High School

Jan 2010Jan 2012

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