Vaibhav (Webhub) Agarwal

Software Developer @ Google

About

As an Engineer, Vaibhav loves to fix problems and develop new features and products. Although Vaibhav's strengths lies in front end development (HTML, CSS, JS, etc), he loves to be involved in all aspects of the product ranging from planning, user research, designing, architecting scalable code, coding, devops, testing, marketing, deploying, professional services, etc. Being a talkative one, he is good at interacting with people from different domains and love to build relationships at personal level. He considers himself fortunate to have had amazing experiences and mentors in the past. In school, he has taken strong and varied foundation courses in User Experience Research, Gamification, Animation, Advanced Data Structures, Cyber forensics, Cloud Computing, Psychology, etc. In 2012, Vaibhav had joined University of Southern California to explore the world of User Interaction and User Experience (UIUX) Design. Strong foundations built at USC and experience gained through internships and voluntary work, enables him to dive deep into User Experience Research through a programmer's perspective. His prototypes, wire-frames and work flows clearly depict the thought given by an engineer while making them both feasible and addictive. Moreover, Vaibhav strongly believes in making everything fun and walks that extra mile to remove frustration from a user's life. Movies and Games play a very large role in teaching this as they take their audience to a completely new world. Having taken classes in World's best film school enables Vaibhav to bring that perspective in his outputs making his work very unique right from first glance.

Country

United States

City

Sunnyvale

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Java, HTML, User Interface Design, Android Development, Linux, C, JavaScript, CSS, HTML 5, CSS3, Paper Prototyping, User Experience Design, Design Evaluation, jQuery, XML, Interaction Design, AngularJS, Twitter Bootstrap, GitHib, JSON

Experience

Software Developer

Google

2022-1 - Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

Mountain View, California, United States

Senior Software Engineer

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

2021-4 - 2021-11 · 8 mos

Redwood City, California, United States

Full stack development on Ruby/Rails, React, GraphQL, etc. Part of Education department building on a new product, called Along.

Technical Advisor

Linarc Inc.

2020-11 - 2021-10 · 1 yr

Co-Founder

Stealth Startup

2020-11 - 2021-9 · 11 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Staff Software Engineer

One Concern

2021-3 - 2021-4 · 2 mos

Short stint but eye opening for what kind of work I want to do next :)

Senior Key Expert - R & D

Enlighted

2019-5 - 2021-1 · 1 yr 9 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

(Acquired by Siemens) | Siemens Led the team of about 5 developers and got a large project scoped, designed, built, shipped and deployed successfully in very tight deadlines. Company's 100% of revenue was dependent on this project. 1. Manage Solution (https://www.enlightedinc.com/blog/manage-4-0-is-live-upgrade-now/) This is Enlighted's core revenue generating product affecting 100% of revenue and customers. Led the migration of decade old JSP/Adobe Flash based project with a team of 6 developers and 1 designer over a span of 1 year. Architected the React/Redux based code, managed scrum, collaborated with PM, UX, QA, Field Teams, etc. The position of Manage in company's stack is explained at (https://www.enlightedinc.com/system-and-solutions/iot-system/). 2. IoT Software Applications (https://www.enlightedinc.com/system-and-solutions/iot-applications/) a. Where: Asset Tracking and Real-Time Location Services (https://www.enlightedinc.com/system-and-solutions/iot-system/where/) Enhanced Where Application based on Angular.js framework and shipped it for customer deployments within 6 months of joining. Key contribution was in doubling the team's productivity and expediting turn around times. b. Space Utilization (https://www.enlightedinc.com/system-and-solutions/iot-applications/space/) Supported the Space Application for all customer issues, etc.

Technical Product Manager

Arcadia Data

2017-5 - 2019-4 · 2 yrs

San Mateo

(Acquired by Cloudera) | Cloudera

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Arcadia Data

2015-5 - 2019-4 · 4 yrs

San Francisco Bay Area

Involved in development and launch of all aspects of Arcadia Visualisation product, available to download from attached link. Contributed in different phases including: design, development, market research, dev ops, testing, pre-sales POC, post sales customer follow ups, technical customer support, marketing. In short, have gone through end - to - end conceptualise to implement to launch and deploy cycles for many versions of our product from being a stealth mode unlaunched idea to a multi-million dollar product.

Software Development Engineer

Yahoo

2014-3 - 2015-4 · 1 yr 2 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Great experience working in: Node.js, custom front end framework, Dust.js and Mustache templating, Protractor and Mocha testing frameworks, Enterprise Git (feature branch workflow), Jenkins based CI/CD (custom), SASS, YWA and GWA based instrumentation. Involved in multiple user studies and researches to test new experimental features. Enhanced Yahoo video discovery and helped improve search CTR by 40% and SEO. (http://screen.yahoo.com) In a team of 4, developed new Yahoo Music Video platform and contributed in enhancement of user engagement by 30x. (http://play.media.yahoo.com)

Teaching Assistant for CSCI 588

University of Southern California

2013-9 - 2013-12 · 4 mos

Greater Los Angeles Area

I am grader and help students in doubt clearing sessions for the course of Specification and Design of User Interface Software (CSCI 588) at University of Southern California. The professor under whom the course is being taught is Dr. Suya You and this is one of the most fun courses at USC.

Student (User Experience)

University of Southern California

2012-1 - 2013-12 · 2 yrs

Greater Los Angeles Area

Intern Software Engineer (UI/UX)

Teradata Aster

2013-5 - 2013-8 · 4 mos

San Carlos, California

A brief introduction of the product I worked on is specified at http://goo.gl/B3PD7X Contributed in launch of Asterlens v5.10, a product with my code and user flow enhancements. Also was involved in all pre-release processes of the product. Envisioned next version of the product and contributed in designing as well as prototyping the product. Delivered with a complete workflow of how Visualization service shall wotk in the new product. Provided a proof of concept and also delivered an entire d3js based Visualizarion library customized specifically to the company's user guidelines and product needs.

Education

University of Southern California

Computer Science (User Experience)

2012 - 2013 · 1 yr

Pursued research under Prof. Viktor Prasanna and Dr. Yogesh Simmhan in the field of cloud computing from January 2012 to July 2012. Graduate Student adviser of Gabriel Elizalde for research in Data Analysis for SmartGrid project, as part of Young Researchers Program (YRP) conducted at USC. We stood 2nd in the research poster competition. (Summers 2012) Member of Vidushak - an in-house improv group. Member of Association of Indian Students at USC and have organized a couple of events at USC (pani-puri night, Holi celebrations) Member of USC Archery Club Member of TrojanVision - a student run television channel