Abhi Agarwal
Software Engineer II at Air Space Intelligence
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhi Agarwal is a Software Engineer II based in Cambridge, MA with 13 years of experience building data-driven, cloud-native systems for genomics, defense, and analytic workloads. He’s delivered end-to-end platforms—owning Starburst deployments, Databricks Delta Lake pipelines, and AKS/Terraform infrastructure—to accelerate large-scale genomic analysis and internal query performance by 3–4x. Equally comfortable in backend engineering, he has contributed to open-source Django tooling (enhancing report-builder features, CSV exports, and test coverage) and builds high-throughput services with Python, FastAPI, and Kubernetes. Abhi has led HTR research using vision-based LLMs that outperformed published baselines and implemented IL4-compliant authorization for sensitive systems, demonstrating both ML and security maturity. He pairs rigorous academic training (MS in Computer Science, BS in Math/Econ) with practical campaign- and college-led leadership roles that sharpen his product and stakeholder communication. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who blends deep systems optimization with a knack for shipping usable tooling.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Major: Mathematics, Economics; Minor: Physics, Philosophy, Bachelor of Science - BS, Major: Mathematics, Economics; Minor: Physics, Philosophy at Bates CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Andover High School
French, English
Github Skills (9)
api10
python10
apidoc10
django10
rest-framework9
databases8
database8
postgresql8
csv7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
burke-software/django-report-builder
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
This is a github mirror for django-report-builder which is hosted on Gitlab. Django Report Builder is a GUI for Django ORM. Build custom queries and display results. Targets sys admins and capable end users who might not be able to program.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 25 PRs, 31 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Abhi primarily focused on enhancing the Django-based report builder application. Their contributions included adding features to disable the static frontend, modifying the settings to support a frontend toggle, and introducing the use of `cached_property` within the models and API views. The user also implemented unit tests to ensure the functionality of the `cached_property` and integrated new features for default fields and filters, and further improved the codebase by adding configurations related to including or excluding models. Additionally, they added support for CSV downloads and enhancements to various reporting components, and improved code quality with fixes.
pythondjangoableend-usersorm
AbhiAgarwal/face
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 3 months
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