Kapil Agarwal is a Software Engineer III based in Singapore with seven years of experience building full-stack products and user-facing systems, currently working on Audio Search at Google. He has a strong track record of improving developer productivity and shipping impactful features—from redesigning trading infrastructure and onboarding flows at D. E. Shaw to machine‑vision pipelines at Flipkart. Kapil contributes to notable open-source projects like Oppia, enhancing contributor dashboards and frontend UX for a globally used learning platform. He combines a CS undergraduate background with interdisciplinary graduate study in biology, reflecting a knack for tackling cross-domain problems and user-centered design. Known for mentoring and diversity advocacy, he brings both product-focused engineering and collaborative leadership to complex, data-rich applications.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:124 reviews, 23 PRs, 181 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kapil's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the contributor dashboard features. This involved modifying multiple UI components for question and translation suggestion review modals, ensuring proper display of reviewer information and review messages. They also addressed several frontend issues, including fixing eslint errors, displaying no response errors for user inputs and correcting alignment issues. Their work extended to improving user experience by updating the current answer for various input components and integrating with the donation box.
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Contributions:82 pushes, 20 branches in 7 months
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