Rahul Agarwal
Co-Founder And COO at Medplum
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRahul Agarwal is a seasoned software leader and operator with 11 years of experience building ML-driven products and developer platforms from prototyping to production. As Co-Founder and COO of Medplum in San Francisco, he blends hands-on full-stack engineering with operational leadership to ship compliant healthcare tooling and documentation. His background includes machine learning engineering at Palantir and technical leadership at Numenta, where he delivered large algorithmic improvements, tooling, and cost-saving optimizations. Rahul has a track record of translating customer pain points into measurable impact from his Applied Intuition role focused on adoption and KPIs. He contributes to open-source healthcare tooling—improving dependencies, docs, and UX in the medplum repo—demonstrating attention to both code quality and developer experience. Trained at Stanford and MIT, he pairs rigorous technical depth with practical product and business instincts.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Stanford University
Spanish, Hindi
Github Skills (18)
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
javascript9
react9
documentation9
dependency-management8
dependency-manager8
dependency-analysis8
ehealth7
medical7
health7
graphql6
hl7-fhir6
smart-on-fhir6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
medplum/medplum
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Medplum is a healthcare platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality compliant applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1347 reviews, 93 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Rahul primarily focused on dependency management and code improvements. They updated dependencies, replaced `bcrypt` with `bcryptjs`, and addressed typing and code style issues. Additionally, the user contributed to the documentation by creating the landing page for documentation, and working on the styling, structure, and linking of different sections. Moreover, the user fixed broken links and performed various other doc-related improvements.
fhircompliantfhir-serverelectronic-health-recordehr
medplum/medplum-demo-bots
Jul 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:28 reviews, 41 commits, 50 PRs in 7 months
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