Chirag Agarwal
Software Engineer at Bachatt
Goa, India
Summary
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Top SchoolChirag Agarwal is a software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently building fintech products in Goa after earning a B.E. from BITS Pilani. He has been a founding engineer at Pay3, where he designed microservice architectures, improved checkout concurrency to cut fees dramatically, and integrated payment providers across 50+ countries. His backend work spans Java and Node.js microservices, resilient webhook ingestion with idempotency and SQS-driven reconciliation, and production monitoring for dozens of APIs. Earlier roles include blockchain prototyping—designing a QR-based crypto checkout and deploying UniswapV2 contracts—and contributing to the Parrot VM by improving garbage collection and internal PMCs. Comfortable across frontend and backend boundaries, he pairs systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation and a knack for turning research or proofs-of-concept into production-ready features. Beyond code, he’s led large volunteer teams and run national-scale events, demonstrating product, people, and executional chops.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus
Github Skills (7)
c1710
memory-management10
c1110
garbage-collection10
hashmap9
hashtable9
imageio8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
parrot/parrot
Apr 2014 - Jul 2014
Parrot Virtual Machine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Chirag primarily focused on modifying and improving the Parrot Virtual Machine's core components. Their work involved enhancing garbage collection write barriers, which would improve the efficiency of the VM's memory management. The user also implemented write barriers for hash and image IO iterators, ensuring data consistency and proper garbage collection across various data structures. Moreover, the user worked on the `callcontext` PMC, demonstrating a good understanding of the VM's internals.
parrotvirtual-machine
eegdrop/eegdrop.github.io
Mar 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 58 pushes in 4 months
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