Akarsh Agarwal
Engineering Manager II at Grab
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolAkarsh Agarwal is a hands-on engineering manager with 9 years of experience building secure, scalable distributed systems, currently leading backend teams at Grab in Singapore. He drives architecture and system design for GrabFin payment products—owning web checkout, transaction history, and financial product discovery—and reviews major architecture changes across payments, lending, and insurance. Known for turning technical work into measurable business impact, his projects have reduced losses and saved millions annually through features like Upfront Charge and Partial Refunds. He combines technical depth in backend and payments engineering with a background in information security and blockchain, and has mentored multiple engineers to senior and lead roles. Outside product delivery he contributes to developer education and open-source documentation efforts, helping teams ship clearer, more maintainable systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science, High School Science at Delhi Public School - IndiaBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Engineering at Nirma UniversityMaster of Computing Information Security and Communication, Master of Computing Information Security and Communication at National University of Singapore
English, Hindi
Github Skills (51)
tpc8
hyperledger-fabric8
hyperledger8
blockchain8
fabric7
npm-package7
privacy-protection7
encryption6
tweetnacl6
benchmarking6
security6
npm6
benchmark6
gerrit6
blockchain-network5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mychewcents/mychewcents
Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
Website Design for mychewcents.me
Contributions:10 PRs, 50 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 11 months
csswebsite-design
mychewcents/e2e-encryption
Jul 2020 - May 2021
An npm module to allow for easier E2E encryption and decryption. Works on 'tweetnacl' npm package.
Contributions:2 releases, 37 commits, 8 PRs in 9 months
encryption-toolprivacynpm-packagesecurityjavascript
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