Rahul Agarwal

Director of Engineering

Seattle, Washington, United States20 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record of building high-performing engineering teams.
  • Led multi-million dollar privacy initiatives at Meta.
  • Successfully launched new cloud services at AWS.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud and Privacy Engineering leader with extensive experience in Fintech and Tech industries.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipPrivacy EngineeringProduct ManagementCloud EngineeringProduct DevelopmentWealth Management TechnologySoftware Engineering

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesBackend systemsBloombergCapacity ReservationsCapital MarketsCollaboration with PM and UXRDerivativesDesign and implementationEC2 Spot serviceElastic ComputeEngineering managementEquitiesFinancial ModelingFixed IncomeHedge Funds

About

Proven engineering leader with 18 years of experience building infra, services and products that achieved growth of revenues from $X M to $XXX M P&L. Built high performing orgs at AWS and Meta (earlier known as Facebook) from scratch ( few engineers ) to 60+ people including senior ICs and Engineering leaders with multiple teams in different locations. Also built and led Product management, UX research and Data Engineering functions in the org. 10+ years experience of managing managers and developing engineering leaders. Aside from this, I enjoy being a son, a husband and a dad!

Experience

Google

Director Of Engineering

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Kirkland, Washington, United States · Hybrid

  • Lead and manage a 130 people engineering org. Building genAI agents and agentic workflows for planning and production management.
genAI agentsproduction managementEngineering Leadership

Meta

Engineering Leader

Mar 2020 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • Building Privacy Aware Infrastructure @ Meta scale : Currently leading an engineering org in Privacy domain that includes multiple engineering teams and engineering leaders responsible for mission critical Privacy products, services and Infra that are saving multi million dollars for Meta on annual basis. These products and services are used by 15K+ Meta employees across the globe to uphold privacy commitments for our users across all app surfaces like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. All these services are highly distributed in nature.
  • Strategy, Vision, Roadmap of Products & Infra that are improving dev experience and privacy commitment experience of 15K+ employees at Meta. Collaborating with PM, UXR, DS organizations to set multi year roadmap for entire org.
Privacy Aware InfrastructureEngineering managementProduct strategyCollaboration with PM and UXRPrivacy EngineeringProduct Management

Amazon web services (aws)

Engineering Leader

Nov 2015 – Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Seattle, Washington

  • Built (0->1) and managed an org ( 60+ folks ) of multiple engineering teams in Elastic Compute( EC2 ) group at AWS. Grew EC2 Spot service from proof of concept to $XXX M runrate service serving developers and customers across the globe. Launched 3 band new compute services/products and built engineering teams to lead these products. Responsible for delighting customers by delivering services and features for EC2 Spot, Capacity Reservations, Launch Templates and Hibernate for EC2 Instances !
Elastic ComputeEC2 Spot serviceCapacity ReservationsLaunch TemplatesHibernate for EC2 InstancesCloud Engineering+1

Goldman sachs

2 roles

Vice President

Promoted

Jan 2012 – Oct 2015 · 3 yrs 9 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Currently leading a team in private wealth management technology division to deliver critical UI and backend components for a PWM client facing website with a daily traffic of ~18-20 K users
  • Past : Lead a team that manages and implements IT and risk systems for a multi-strategy multi-asset hedge fund in Goldman Sachs.
UI componentsBackend systemsPrivate wealth management technologyWealth Management Technology

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2005 – Dec 2011 · 6 yrs 4 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Led various work streams( like Personalization, Order construction ) in design and implementation capacity.
PersonalizationOrder constructionDesign and implementationSoftware Engineering

Avaya

R&D Trainee

May 2005 – Jul 2005 · 2 mos

  • Researched & Implemented VOIP telemarketing technology infra.
VOIP technology

Education

University of Arizona

MS — Computer Science

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005

HBTI Kanpur

BTech — Computer Science

Jan 1998 – Jan 2002

St. Xavier School - Delhi

High School — High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998

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