Summary
Himanshu Agarwal is an engineering manager with 14 years of software and data science experience, currently leading engineering teams at Eightfold focused on HRTech and talent acquisition. He previously led multiple Flipkart-scale products—voice search, voice assistants, a production NLP platform, and a machine translation/transliteration stack serving 11 Indian languages—combining research-grade ML with production engineering. He has deep expertise in deep learning and NLP for Indian languages, including ASR, intent/entity models, transliteration, and novel context management for multi-turn conversational shopping. As a former startup researcher and co-founder, he pairs product instincts with hands-on systems work, having optimized latency-critical ASR components and built scalable labeling and ML pipelines. He has a track record of building platforms that democratize vernacular experiences and holds patents in transliteration and communications-related technologies. Based in Bengaluru, he brings both large-scale operational leadership and a researcher’s curiosity for applying SOTA approaches to real-world language problems.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
English, Hindi