About

Rinkal Agrawal is a highly experienced Software Engineer who is currently working at Google as a member of the Google Search Discover Team. With over 7 years of relevant experience, Rinkal is an expert in software engineering, infrastructure, Search, product management, Redis, ML, Kafka, Postgres, Data Science, and Research Science. Rinkal has previously worked at Instagram and Robinhood as a Software Engineer, where he led multiple projects and worked with cross-functional teams to build and launch new features. During his time at Instagram, Rinkal launched media recommendation surfaces on Instagram feed, which increased the seen media by 9%, leading to $500M+ annual revenue. He also led political content filtering on Instagram feed recommendation surfaces, reducing the recommended political content by 97%. At Robinhood, Rinkal led real-time market data support to launch new crypto coins on Robinhood, designed and implemented a real-time data pipeline, and built stand-alone Robinhood market data infrastructure for development to mimic production. Rinkal is passionate about building products and user experience. He is a firm believer in the quote by Rocky Balboa, "One step, One punch, One round at a time," and applies this philosophy to his work. Rinkal is a Bachelor's degree holder in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) holder in Computer Science from Manipal Institute of Technology. Rinkal is a highly skilled and experienced Software Engineer with a deep understanding of software engineering, infrastructure, and product management. He is a valuable asset to any team he works with and is always willing to mentor and onboard new hires.