Summary
Ashwani Agarwal is a polyglot software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, high-scale backend systems across startups and large enterprises, currently contributing to Meta after senior engineering roles at Airtel Payments Bank and OYO. He has led teams and designed middleware (APL) that improved system throughput up to 50x, shipped mission-critical integrations under tight deadlines, and moved monoliths to event-driven microservices. Comfortable across Java, Spring Boot, Node.js and Python, he pairs deep system design instincts with strong DevOps practice—Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka and observability—while driving developer productivity through automation and dashboards. Notably, he’s delivered a streaming pipeline to export millions of rows without memory constraints and has experience packaging blockchain integrations and white-label products for fintech/crypto clients. Based in London, he blends startup agility with enterprise rigor and favors pragmatic, test-driven solutions that prioritize operability and business alignment.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, 73.5%, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Technology, 73.5% at Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology
Intermediate, PCM, 84%, Intermediate, PCM, 84% at Rashtriya Inter College, Dhanaura
English, Hindi