Sonav Agarwal

- Developed a client management system for Inner City Visions to streamline homeless outreach and onboarding, manage paperwork and resources, and automate metric calculation - Partnered with the LA Food Policy Council and developed a mobile app facilitating access to healthy, government subsidized food for individuals in food deserts

- Developed a realtime analytics system using Google Cloud and express to help organizers and sponsors gain insight into event attendance and improve resource management for future hackathons - Deployed and scaled backend containers on Cloud Run to handle 1000+ event logs per hour during the hackathon - Coordinated $11,000 worth of hackathon swag through multiple vendors for over 1000 attendees

- Developed and deployed Poppin’s web platform using React, Typescript, and AWS that serves 45K monthly active users with a user-friendly interface discovering friends and events - Engineered a real-time chat system using REST APIs written in Golang and websockets, increasing retention by 50% and augmenting user interaction and communication on the platform Integrated Stripe for secure payment processing enabling the web platform to generate > $100K of ticketing revenue - Published an Android app by transforming a PWA into a native app with Bubblewrap, broadening customer reach and enhancing user experience with better performance and offline support Implemented a robust authentication flow using Firebase Auth enabling seamless onboarding and improving checkout UX - Boosted application performance by deploying paginated endpoints to accelerate event page loading by 5.4x - Optimized asset hosting/delivery to achieve an 11.4x faster landing page load time

Conducted market research on teenage usage of authentication systems Designed, pitched to company leadership, and created (React) an age-verifying system for teenagers