Ashwin Pranav Agarwal

Overview

VP of Engineering at Lumen AI, focused on platform engineering. Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 3. Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 755ms to 169ms. Before that: McKinsey & Company and Microsoft. Most at home with Bazel and service mesh.

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Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Jan 2024 - Present
   Lumen AI · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 32% in two quarters.
   • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 24 a week to 3.
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 847ms to 59ms.
2. Director of Engineering

   Mar 2021 - Jan 2024
   McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Led the migration of 20 services to Bazel.
3. Principal Engineer

   Jun 2019 - Mar 2021
   Microsoft · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Sit on 4 boards.
   • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Dec 2016 - Jun 2019
   Deloitte · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Built the experimentation framework 39 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Moved 69% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
5. Platform Engineer

   Aug 2014 - Dec 2016
   Google · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Dubai, UAE
   • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 619ms to 71ms.

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Education

1. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

   BSc, Computer Science
   1994 - 1998