Abhay Agarwal
CEO at Poly
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhay Agarwal is a CEO, founder, and educator with 13 years building human-centered AI products and developer-facing platforms from San Francisco. He leads Poly, a cloud storage platform for designers and GenAI users, after founding Polytopal where his teams shipped widely used AI systems—ranging from a fitness tracker with over 1M logged workouts to a dance choreography generator with millions of outputs. Trained in EECS at Berkeley and product design at Stanford, he blends rigorous research (Microsoft AI fellowship, ML course creation at the d.school) with hands-on product craft. He also teaches AI design at UT Austin and has a recurring interest in how computation augments emotion, perception, and consciousness—bringing a rare mix of artistic practice, academic inquiry, and scalable product execution to AI-enabled experiences.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS Product Design, Master of Science - MS Product Design at Stanford University
English, Hindi
Github Skills (186)
json-parser10
python10
zero-copy10
compression10
javascript10
mesosphere10
mmap10
rust10
protobuf10
grpc10
sqlite10
typescript10
cross-platform10
full-stack10
java10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
designing-ml/designwith_ml
Oct 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
abhay-agarwal/reinforce
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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