About

Rahul Agarwal is a Full Stack Developer at Ellucian with nearly 3 years of experience in the Data Science and Smart City domain. He specializes in Predictive Modelling, Data Engineering, and Automation. Rahul has worked with IoT data to build various ML models and gained proficiency in building scalable Web apps using the latest Web Framework. Currently, Rahul works as a Software Engineer in the R&D division at Ellucian. His day-to-day work involves working in an Agile manner with backend technologies like NodeJS, Express, TypeScript, JavaScript frameworks, frontend technology like React, cloud services like AWS, and a database system like MongoDB. Before joining Ellucian as a Software Engineer, Rahul worked as an R&D (Application Development) Intern at Ellucian, where he designed and built an end-to-end web application that allows University staff and students to set up appointments. He used NodeJS and ReactJS following MVC design pattern which serves 5K concurrent users. Rahul also engaged in HLD reviews and came up with an LLD, which was reviewed by the mentor for core backend service. He proposed a better way of using MongoDB queries with Mongoose, as a result increasing the throughput of the system. Rahul has also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Virginia Tech for CS 1114: Intro to Software Design, CS 2114: Software Design and Data Structures, CS 5604: Information storage and retrieval, and CS 5024: Ethics and Professionalism in Computer Science. Rahul holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from NIIT University. He also has a Higher Education degree in Science from Don Bosco School, Bandel. Rahul's tech stack includes Software Engineering, Data Science, Web, ML, AWS, MongoDB, Backend, NodeJS, Data Engineering, Javascript, Typescript, Frontend, and ReactJS. Rahul has 2.87 years of relevant experience in the industry.