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Arnav Agarwal

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led engineering for multiple successful product launches.
  • Expert in building scalable e-commerce platforms.
  • Strong leadership in high-velocity engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C E-commerce Engineering Leader with expertise in scalable platform development.

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Skills

Core Skills

EngineeringSupply Chain ManagementSoftware ArchitectureProduct DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

Engineering LeadershipSupply Chain SystemsAnalytics & Data PlatformsB2C ExperienceWeb ServicesCustomer ExperienceUnified Order Management SystemCatalog SystemsStorefront DevelopmentAlcohol DeliveryInstamartSupply InitiativesInternational LaunchesGDPR ComplianceOnboarding Platform Development

About

As AVP – Engineering at Swiggy, I lead the engineering orgs for Swiggy Instamart, along with Mall, Genie, and Stores Marketplace (Alcohol) — and oversee core platforms including Ads and Catalog. My teams own the end-to-end technology charter spanning customer experience (discovery to post-order), supply chain, warehouse systems, catalog and inventory, driver fulfillment, and analytics and data platforms. Over 15+ years in tech, I’ve built and scaled multiple 0→1 businesses across commerce, logistics, and food delivery, combining product intuition with strong engineering and platform thinking. I’ve helped launch and scale initiatives like Instamart and Alcohol delivery from scratch, while driving reliability, performance, and developer velocity across large orgs. Before this, I led New Initiatives and Ads Platform at Swiggy, supply tech and international launches at Ola, and the restaurant tech stack at Foodpanda India. Earlier, at Fab.com, I worked on catalog, inventory, replenishment, vendor systems, and merchandising taxonomy, and started my career at Adobe, contributing to Acrobat Search and internal engineering tools. I’m passionate about building high-velocity teams, reliable platforms, and systems that scale with simplicity — where great engineering and great customer experiences go hand in hand.

Experience

16 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
6 yrs 7 mos
Current Experience

Swiggy

3 roles

AVP-Engineering

Promoted

Oct 2022Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Head of Engineering for Swiggy Instamart
  • Alongside, heading Engineering for other Business lines which includes Swiggy Mall, Genie and Stores Marketplace (Alcohol Biz)
  • Responsibilities include engineering ownership/ leadership across:
  • B2C experience: Discovery to order placement and post-order CC support
  • App/ UI experience
  • Supply chain systems
  • Warehouse systems
  • Catalog and Inventory systems
  • Dark pods and picker systems
  • Driver fulfillment systems
  • Analytics & DS data pipelines
  • QA/ Quality across the horizon
  • Leading core central tech platforms:
  • Ads platform
  • Catalog for new Initiatives
Engineering LeadershipSupply Chain SystemsAnalytics & Data PlatformsB2C ExperienceEngineeringSupply Chain Management

Director - Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Engineering lead for New Initiatives @Swiggy: All Things Tech for Customer Experience, from Discovery to Order Fulfillment and post order experience for:
  • Instamart B2C🛒
  • Minis by Swiggy 🛍
  • Meat 🍗
  • Alcohol🍺
  • Stores marketplace 🏪
  • Handling core Engineering platforms and creating new platforms @Swiggy
  • Unified Order Management System
  • Catalog systems for all New initiatives across Swiggy
Customer ExperienceUnified Order Management SystemCatalog SystemsEngineeringProduct Development

Senior Engineering Manager

Aug 2019Mar 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Built Swiggy Instamart and Alcohol delivery from scratch, led Storefront for these initiatives, had a 0-1 journey and beyond for these Business Lines.
  • Led the Storefront experience for:
  • Stores Marketplace
  • Genie
  • For starting 6-8 months led Swiggy's
  • Ad$ Platfo₹m
  • Swiggy Daily (a subscription based standalone app for enabling homechefs etc to cater to Homemade Food experience)
Storefront DevelopmentAlcohol DeliveryInstamartEngineeringProduct Development

Ola (ani technologies pvt. ltd)

3 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Apr 2017Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Led complete Supply Initiatives for Ola, led Supply Launch for International markets, GDPR for EU.
  • Discover more @ drive.olacabs.com
  • Led Restaurant tech stack at Foodpanda India from August 2018-Dec 2018
Supply InitiativesInternational LaunchesGDPR ComplianceEngineeringSupply Chain Management

Technical Team Lead

Promoted

Jan 2016Mar 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Built Ola's Onboarding platform from scratch, from envisioning to design/architecture, tech stack, DB choices, execution, GTM and scale-up.
  • Led major technology initiatives for Ola from Supply side and converge all Supply Business lines into platform.
Onboarding Platform DevelopmentTechnology InitiativesEngineeringProduct Development

Senior Software Development Engineer

Feb 2015Jan 2016 · 11 mos

Hem

Principal Software Engineer

Jun 2014Jan 2015 · 7 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Hem.com was spun up by the founders of Fab.com and I worked on this parallel entity for a small time along with Fab.com till teams were totally separated. Worked on creating Catalog and Consumer systems from scratch, also multiple Furniture customisation flows and workflow designs.
Catalog SystemsConsumer SystemsEngineeringProduct Development

Fab.com

Principal Software Engineer

Nov 2012Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Worked on Catalog systems, inventory and replenishment, Vendor systems, Customer experience. Was also part of Designer onboarding systems and merchandising taxonomy creation etc
Catalog SystemsInventory ManagementEngineeringProduct Development

Adobe

2 roles

Software Engineer II

Feb 2012Nov 2012 · 9 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Worked on Search feature in Acrobat.
Search Feature DevelopmentSoftware Development

Software Engineer

Jun 2009Jan 2012 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Part of internal Tools team and search team in Acrobat

Education

Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology, Sultanpur

B.Tech. (Hons) - Top 5% — Computer Science & Engineering

BBL Public School - India

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