About

Pragy Agarwal is a seasoned Senior Software Engineer and Instructor with over 6 years of relevant experience in the tech industry. Currently, she works as a Senior Software Engineer at InterviewBit, a 6-month online career accelerator program that helps individuals take their careers to the next level without any educational, geographical, or financial constraints. She is also an Instructor and Mentor at Scaler Academy, previously known as InterviewBit Academy, where she helps students learn and develop their skills in the tech industry. Pragy's expertise lies in Reinforcement Learning, Software Engineering, Spark, Redis, Javascript, MySQL, Cassandra, Spring Boot, Spring, Microservices, Search, Flask, Python, Django, ReactJS, and Java. She has a Master of Technology degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology. At InterviewBit, Pragy has been instrumental in developing a micro-service for entity extraction from webpage content and handling 5+ million requests per day. She has also worked on webpage categorization based on content and search engine results for customers like WebMD, Forbes, and MSN, improving existing models and laying a pipeline for data addition and improvement. Furthermore, she has developed a Java + Spark codebase for estimating and ranking keyword performance for serving ads, improving data handling capabilities 3x (10 billion rows), making the process robust against frequent failures, and adding extensive documentation. At Scaler Academy, Pragy has been an Instructor and Mentor, providing personalized guidance to students and helping them develop industry-relevant skills. She has also been part of a community of dedicated instructors, teaching assistants, industry mentors, career coaches, and students. Overall, Pragy Agarwal is a highly skilled and experienced tech professional who is passionate about developing and teaching industry-relevant skills to help individuals take their careers to the next level.