Summary
Ashutosh Agrawal is a seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building high-scale streaming and adtech platforms, currently a Staff Software Engineer on Gemini at Google DeepMind. He architected systems at JioCinema that served 600M+ users and 35M+ concurrent viewers, led the design of SSAI capable of 25M+ CCU, and has repeatedly driven engineering productivity and readiness for marquee live events like the IPL. Comfortable both as a hands-on builder and a strategic architect, he has a track record of shaping platform strategy, performance labs, and programmatic bidding exchanges across startups and hyperscale products. His background spans Google, Hotstar/Disney+, HackerRank and product-first startups, blending cloud, CDN, performance engineering and adtech expertise. Notably, he pairs large-scale systems experience with business-focused engineering—engineering the “how” to deliver measurable product and revenue outcomes.
13 years of coding experience