About

Samarth Agarwal is a highly skilled Junior Associate at McKinsey & Company, with a strong background in software engineering and experience in the finance industry. He has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, including the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was recognized as one of the highest-rated software engineers globally and awarded the 'Star of the Month' award twice. Currently, Samarth is part of the Foundry Iron team at McKinsey, where he is working on the Apache Big-Data Stack, using HDFS, Spark, Hive, and Scala to implement use-cases that cater to finance and front office requirements. He is actively involved in redesigning the platform to improve it and managed a release in November 2016. He has also mentored an intern on her project and onboarded two new members to the team. In the past, Samarth has worked with the Reporting Shared Services team at the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he built a solution to automate report generation on OBIEE. The utility is being used to cater to the most critical project of RBS. He also built two other peripheral projects aimed at reducing cost and improving the user experience. Samarth has a Bachelor of Education in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He also holds a Master of International Management from CEMS - The Global Alliance in Management Education. Samarth's technical skills include software engineering, HDFS, Spark, Scala, Java, and Apache Hive. With almost five years of relevant experience, Samarth is a valuable asset to any team he works with.