Summary
Kirti Agarwal is an engineering leader with a decade of experience building and scaling software teams and systems across Google, Lyft, and Amazon. She has led cross-functional organizations that span backend, frontend, mobile, and product management, focusing on observability, low-latency streaming, and cost-efficient infrastructure for terabyte-scale data. Her hands-on roots in Java/J2EE, Spring/Hibernate, SQL and distributed system patterns inform pragmatic architecture and operational decisions. At Lyft she drove commercialization of internal tooling and end-to-end observability; at Google she led accessibility and cross-browser support for Workspace editors. Comfortable in Agile, CI/CD, and TDD environments, she blends deep technical fluency with strong customer and stakeholder orientation. Based in the New York metro area with an MS in Computer Science, she combines enterprise-scale leadership with a developer’s attention to design and debugging detail.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University