Anant Agarwal is a Co-founder and CTO based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of engineering leadership building products used by millions daily. He combines deep expertise in recommendation systems, user modeling, and large-scale retrieval—honed at Google where he led Discover shopping and learning task initiatives—with robust backend and API platform experience from Goldman Sachs powering financial products and risk services. At Aidora he’s applying that cross-domain rigor to reimagine leave management, bringing product-driven ML and scalable engineering to HR workflows. His background includes inventing a standardized representation for structured financial payoffs (patent-pending) and optimizing high-throughput recommendation stacks (~200k QPS), reflecting a knack for turning complex domain models into production-grade systems. Trained at Cornell and NIT Trichy, he blends academic grounding with practical impact across consumer and financial platforms.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Cornell University
12th Grade (ICSE Board), 12th Grade (ICSE Board) at City Montessori School
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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