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Aditya Agarwal

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States21 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Scaled Dropbox's engineering team from 25 to 1000.
  • Key contributor to Facebook's early product development.
  • Active investor and advisor to Silicon Valley startups.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and technology leader with extensive experience in scaling engineering teams and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

ScalabilitySoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsBig DataCC++Cloud ComputingComputer ScienceDistributed SystemsHadoopJavaJavaScriptLinuxMachine LearningMapReducePerl

About

Aditya Agarwal is a Partner at South Park Commons (SPC) - a collective of technologists, tinkerers, and entrepreneurs who have come together to freely learn, explore new ideas, and help each other get from -1 to 0. Based in San Francisco, New York City, and Bangalore, SPC has over 800 members and alumni who have either started their own companies or gone on to join top organizations like Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Prior to SPC, Aditya was the CTO and VP of Engineering at Dropbox. He scaled the Engineering team from 25 to 1000 and was responsible for new product development, infrastructure and technical operations. Aditya came to Dropbox via the acquisition of Cove, a company that he co-founded. Before Cove, Aditya was one of Facebook’s first engineers. He helped build the first versions of key products like Search, NewsFeed and Messenger. He then became Facebook’s first director of Product Engineering, overseeing engineering for products like NewsFeed, Profile, Groups and Events. Aditya serves as an independent director on the board of Flipkart, India’s leading e-commerce company. He is on the advisory board of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science and on the board of trustees of the Anita Borg Institute. He is also an active investor and advisor to Silicon Valley startups. In his spare time, Aditya likes to listen to techno music, read, travel and most of all, hang out with three children. Aditya holds a bachelors and masters degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Experience

Supreme committee for delivery & legacy, qatar 2022

Chair of Technology Committee

Aug 2019Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Iconiq capital

Chair of Technical Advisory Board

Jan 2019Present · 7 yrs 2 mos

South park commons

Managing Partner

Jan 2018Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

Flipkart.com

Member of the Board of Directors

Oct 2014Oct 2018 · 4 yrs

Dropbox

Chief Technology Officer

Mar 2012Aug 2018 · 6 yrs 5 mos

ScalabilityDistributed SystemsMapReduceHadoopPythonBig Data+14

Cove

Co Founder, CTO

Jan 2011Mar 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

Facebook

2 roles

Director of Product Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2007Dec 2010 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Scaled out Facebook Engineering.

Engineer

Jan 2005Oct 2007 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Worked on Search, Infrastructure, Newsfeed, Ads, Commerce and anything else it took to make Facebook awesome.

Oracle

Engineer

Jul 2004Feb 2005 · 7 mos

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

M.S. — Computer Science

Jun 2003May 2004

Carnegie Mellon University

B.S. — Computer Science

Sep 2000Apr 2003

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