Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Apr 2022 – Dec 2022 · 8 mos

• Leading a team of 9 engineers across 3 levels (upto Lead Engineer), in Backend and Android
• As the "Communications Team", we process 100 mil+ notifications per day! We sent out the best ~30mil, using Machine Learning to optimise for CTRs and conversion.
• Our system processes ~5mil messages / day, and all WhatsApp and SMS communication.

Jan 2021 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

Aug 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led the entire tech team.
• We scaled the product from 0 to 1mil users, in 1 year!
• I grew the engineering team from 1 to 18 developers. Was the hiring manager for Backend, Android and Front-End.
• I mainly wrote code on backend (pyhton, postgres). Additionally, I worked on the Android and FE architecture and code reviews.

Dec 2018 – Jun 2019 · 6 mos · Central Singapore

• Full stack engineer (Go backend, android, javascript) for the Grab Ventures team.
• Building micro-services written in Go, deploying on AWS using Terraform for high throughput workloads: >100k QPS.

Nov 2017 – Aug 2018 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Implemented a lot of incremental features in the core user facing android app; including keeping the local SQL and remote firebase data in sync, and updating the screen based on it. Practiced TDD, Object Oriented Design.
• We went from 1k tasks/day to 10k tasks/day in 8 months.

May 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I am the sole developer in our 2 founder bootstrapped startup.
• I built the website, the android app and other internal tools to manage our database of artists and clients.
• Ruby on Rails app deployed on AWS with photo and video uploads.

Oct 2015 – Jan 2016 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Oct 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• On instano you could order anything on chat.
• It has been acquired by MagicTiger: http://www.iamwire.com/2015/12/magictiger-acquires-instano/127558
• I made numerous android apps for consumers, partner merchants and retailers, as well as delivery people.
• Also, I kept the Ruby on Rails server running to provide the API for the mobile apps, an admin dashboard for our operators, as well as hosting the landing page.

Jun 2014 – Aug 2014 · 2 mos

• In 3 months, working from home, I Improved the Lyrics Support of Amarok (KDE's music player) by:
• (a) fetching timestamped lyrics and adding more providers
• (b) creating a lyrics display applet that scrolls accordingly, and highlights the current playing line
• blog: http://blog.vedant-agarwala.com/

Nov 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Develop desktop apps written in C++/Qt.
• Core developer for Amarok-
• Submitted many code reviews (https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/users/vedanta/)
• Mentored a student for Season of KDE 2014
• Contributor to KDE in general- testing, bug reporting and fixing:
• https://dot.kde.org/2014/06/27/randa-meetings-interview-three-vedant-agrawal