Vedant Agarwala

• I built the LLM agent that took figma designs and gave high quality front-end code (React / Angular ...) as output. We were processing 15M tokens per day, had $1500 MRR.
• I built the RAG pipeline, the LLM agent and Eval framework for Context engineering and prompt engineering.

Technologies used:

• typescript, mongoDB and the OpenAI SDK
• LLMs like gpt-4o, Anthropic Claude 3.5

I joined as an engineer and was promoted three times.

As Sr. Engineering Manager:

• Leading a team of nine engineers across three levels (up to Lead Engineer) in backend and Android.
• As the Communications Team, we processed over 100 million notifications per day. We sent out the best 30 million, using machine learning to optimize for CTRs and conversion.n.
• Our system processes approximately 5 million messages per day, and all WhatsApp and SMS communication.

As the lead engineer:

• We scaled the product from 0 to 1mil users, in 1 year!
• I grew the engineering team from 1 to 18 developers. Was the hiring manager for Backend, Android and Front-End.
• I mainly wrote code on the backend (Python, PostgreSQL).
• Additionally, I built the android and FE teams and architecture.

• Led the entire tech team.
• - We scaled the product from 0 to 1mil users, in 1 year!
• - I grew the engineering team from 1 to 18 developers. Was the hiring manager for Backend, Android and Front-End.
• - I mainly wrote code on backend (python, postgres). Additionally, I worked on the Android and FE architecture and code reviews.

• Full stack engineer (Go backend, android, javascript) for the Grab Ventures team.
• Building micro-services written in Go, deploying on AWS using Terraform for high throughput workloads: >100k QPS.

• Implemented a lot of incremental features in the core user facing android app; including keeping the local SQL and remote firebase data in sync, and updating the screen based on it. Practiced TDD, Object Oriented Design.
• We went from 1k tasks/day to 10k tasks/day in 8 months.

• On instano you could order anything on chat.
• It has been acquired by MagicTiger: http://www.iamwire.com/2015/12/magictiger-acquires-instano/127558
• I made numerous android apps for consumers, partner merchants and retailers, as well as delivery people.
• Also, I kept the Ruby on Rails server running to provide the API for the mobile apps, an admin dashboard for our operators, as well as hosting the landing page.

• Develop desktop apps written in C++/Qt.
• Core developer for Amarok-
• Submitted many code reviews (https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/users/vedanta/)
• Mentored a student for Season of KDE 2014
• Contributor to KDE in general- testing, bug reporting and fixing:
• Https://dot.kde.org/2014/06/27/randa-meetings-interview-three-vedant-agra

• In 3 months, working from home, I Improved the Lyrics Support of Amarok (KDE's music player) by:
• (a) fetching timestamped lyrics and adding more providers
• (b) creating a lyrics display applet that scrolls accordingly, and highlights the current playing line
• Blog: http://blog.vedant-agarwala.com/