About

Suraj Agarwal is a seasoned technologist and perceptive leader with over 12 years of experience building highly complex, scalable, and distributed systems leveraging data sciences, analytics, and machine learning. He has strong emerging market technology leadership experience in the fields of FinTech, AdTech, E-commerce, retail, consumer internet/mobile applications, SAAS, PAAS, serving 100M users across geographies, with a strong track record in delivering several software products and services from concept to market. Suraj has successfully managed all aspects of product development, including cross-functional teams, across top-notch Indian and US start-ups and technology giants. He has hands-on experience in building and scaling high-performance organizations from 5 to 50+ members, backed by long-term strategic vision and organization planning. With excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with a strong educational background, Suraj is able to demonstrate a cogent work ethic. Currently, Suraj is a Senior Engineering Manager at Google, responsible for managing leaders of leaders. Previously, he worked at Amazon as a Senior Software Development Manager and Software Development Manager, where he built a first-of-its-kind VAT compliance solution for a global use case. He owns the customer experience, 1B event processing per month, and scaling the platform for millions of Selling Partners globally. He also scaled the team from 8 to 40 people team. Suraj has a strong track record with hands-on experience in building large-scale products and services using Java, GoLang, Python, NodeJS, MySql, Oracle, Cassandra, Aerospike, Redis, MongoDB, Hadoop, Hbase, Spark, Kafka, RabbitMq, CI/CD Automation using Ansible, Salt, Jenkins, Amazon CodeBuild, IAAC (Infrastructure as a code), LAAS using Loggly and Splunk, ELK Stack, etc., and scaling them to 50K QPS. Suraj holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science from PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore, and a Research Assistant degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science (IISC). He also completed his Higher Secondary education at Caesar School. Suraj's relevant experience is 12.53 years, and he has a tech stack that includes Senior Software Engineer, Software Engineer, Ansible, Spark, CI/CD, QA, product manager, Redis, RabbitMQ, ML, Data Scientist, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka, Jenkins, Dev