About

Gaurav Agarwal is a highly skilled and accomplished software engineer with over 13 years of experience in the industry. He is currently working as a Self Driving Engineering Lead at Waymo, where he is responsible for Pickup & Dropoffs Suggestions and Quality. Gaurav is passionate about building products that resonate with users and has notable interpersonal and influential skills. Gaurav has an impressive track record of successful execution across various organizations, including Alphabet and Facebook. He has worked on several high-profile projects, such as Chrome Browser, Chrome Os, Google Maps, Google Search, Google Assistant, and Waymo. Gaurav has also initiated and built end-to-end products from scratch, including Pickup-dropoff (PuDo Suggestions & Quality) at Waymo, Things to do in Google Maps, Place Suggestions and Personalization in Google Maps and Google Search, and Chrome Dev Editor. Gaurav is a regular showcase at Google I/O, CES, and MBG (Made by Google), where he has presented several projects, including Live TV on Google Assistant (2019), Recommendations on Smart Displays (2018), Place recommendations (2017), and Chrome Dev Editor (2013, 2014). He has also been ranked in the top 50 problem solvers in the world, with a peak rank of #3 in 2009. Gaurav has a versatile experience with various systems across product, quality, and infrastructure. He has worked on search and infrastructure projects and has expertise in software engineering. Gaurav has also worked as an Engineering Lead at Google, where he was responsible for Google Search & Assistant (2017–2019), Google Maps & Local Search (2014–2017), and Google Chrome & Chrome Os (2012–2014). Before that, he worked as a Software Engineer at Facebook, where he worked on Organic recommendations: People you may know, Photo memories, page recommendations. Gaurav holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) and completed his 12th grade from City Montessori School Station Road, where he studied Maths, Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Science. Gaurav's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Search, and Infra.