About

Shobhita Agarwal is an accomplished engineering leader with over 11 years of relevant experience. Currently, she is the Head of Engineering at Prodigal, where she has built multiple products and teams from the ground up. She is also a part-time consultant to startups and an open-source contributor. Shobhita has a diverse skill set that includes architecture, system design, and building distributed scalable services for large scale traffic to the tune of 200K TPS. She has built data pipelines, platform services, database migrations, analytics pipelines, web browsers, payments, enterprise applications, and consumer applications. Shobhita left her MSCS program at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue the Indian tech space instead. Her past experience includes being the Creator of Wordhurdle, a word game that went viral across 180+ countries and scaled to 6M players in just 3 months. It had 0.6M DAU and 1M daily pageviews before being acquired by a US-based online gaming company. Shobhita was also a Principal Engineer at Twilio, where she was building the next generation Intelligent CRM. Shobhita's education history includes completing 12th grade in Science from Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School. Her tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, Web, test, Software Engineer, infra, Javascript, Python, Scala, Java, PHP, DevOps, and Mobile. Overall, Shobhita is an accomplished engineering leader with a diverse skill set and a proven track record of building successful products and teams.