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Pratyush Agarwal

2× Founder with 9+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, AI copilots, and ML infrastructure.

Worked at global leaders like D.E. Shaw and Deliveroo, leading distributed systems, datastore reliability, and ML platform projects.

As ex-founder of MelloUp, built an AI event-intelligence copilot, and earlier scaled CodeAsylums into a 20k+ member coding community with 100% placement in offline programs.

Career goal: to leverage deep technical expertise and product leadership to build AI-first platforms that drive measurable business impact at scale.

Notable Achievements:

- Antler Founder Residency Program selects from Lisbon & Madrid (2023) and London, UK (2024)

- Nominated as Top 100 Education Leader (2019) & Top 100 Business Leader (2024) by GFEL, Dubai.

- In the top 5% of the YC Founder list in F24 & top 10% at YC Startup School (Sept '22).

- Spoke at PyCon India, Top Indian Colleges, and other venues, and mentored 50+ Hackathons.

  • Role

    Head of Product and Engineering

  • Years of Experience

    9 years

Skillsets

  • VectorDB
  • PyTorch
  • react
  • Redis
  • Scikit-learn
  • Spark
  • SQL
  • Terraform
  • Transformers
  • Python
  • Airtable
  • Gumloop
  • Mixpanel
  • n8n
  • rag
  • Spring Boot
  • Zapier
  • Kafka
  • Airflow
  • AWS
  • Django
  • Elastic Search
  • Flask
  • Generative AI
  • Golang
  • Hadoop
  • Agents
  • Keras
  • Kubernetes
  • LangGraph
  • LLMs
  • Metaflow
  • ML Ops
  • Postgres

Professional Summary

9Years
  • Oct, 2023 - Present2 yr 5 months

    Head of Product and Engineering

    Melloup.io
  • Sep, 2022 - Sep, 20231 yr

    Senior Software Engineer - ML & Infra Team

    Deliveroo
  • Aug, 2021 - May, 2022 9 months

    Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team

    Ula
  • Jul, 2016 - Feb, 2017 7 months

    Software Engineer

    D.E. Shaw
  • Apr, 2017 - Aug, 20214 yr 4 months

    Co-Founder

    CodeAsylums
  • Apr, 2018 - Oct, 2018 6 months

    Consultant

    AyoConnect
  • Apr, 2016 - Jul, 2016 3 months

    Intern

    Izooto

Work History

9Years

Head of Product and Engineering

Melloup.io
Oct, 2023 - Present2 yr 5 months
    Bootstrapped an AI Colpilot for B2B SaaS companies to acquire customers at global conferences. Built LangGraph-powered agent workflows and orchestrated RAG pipelines with Pinecone for vector retrieval. Built LLM micro-agents to automate event-intelligence tasks, feature extraction, lead scoring, and personalized outreach at scale. Tech stack: Langchain, Python, Pinecone DB, AWS, React, LLMs. Product stack: MixPanel, Airtable, n8n, Gumloop, Zapier.

Senior Software Engineer - ML & Infra Team

Deliveroo
Sep, 2022 - Sep, 20231 yr
    Owned the ML engine product: automated PyTorch/Keras deployments with zero-config backend, auto-scaling, and CI/CD, cutting launch time by 70%. Partnered with senior ML research scientists to standardize and scale Kubernetes/Metaflow pipelines. Architected a Terraform-backed PITR snapshot system for achieving 99.99% uptime and sub-5-minute restores.

Senior Software Engineer - Platform Team

Ula
Aug, 2021 - May, 2022 9 months
    Led a 7-person team to build a ledger app adopted by 20K+ merchants (1M TXns/mo @99.95% uptime) and OCR eKYC, cutting onboarding by 75% with 98% first-pass accuracy. Tech stack used: python, flask, Postgresql, redis, react, AWS.

Consultant

AyoConnect
Apr, 2018 - Oct, 2018 6 months
    Built a loan-approval app using Python, scikit-learn, Spark, Kafka, and Airflow, implementing ML-driven priority scoring to accelerate decisions. Engineered end-to-end ETL pipelines for real-time data ingestion, aggregation, and analysis, boosting approval throughput by 15%.

Co-Founder

CodeAsylums
Apr, 2017 - Aug, 20214 yr 4 months
    Bootstrapped a $500K ARR coding-education business, leading a 25-member team to deliver 15+ in-person and 45+ online bootcamps that placed 1200+ engineers at FAANG companies. Owned the tech, product vision, sales strategy, and operational execution across curricula and marketing.

Software Engineer

D.E. Shaw
Jul, 2016 - Feb, 2017 7 months
    Built and maintained reconciliation endpoints in Python and Java, automating financial data workflows. Developed clean, modular code within a scalable design system, leveraging Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Redis, and load-balanced Java/Spring Boot services.

Intern

Izooto
Apr, 2016 - Jul, 2016 3 months
    Engineered real-time profiling pipelines with Python, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and Airflow for clients like MakeMyTrip, Snapdeal, Lenskart, and Sulekha. These pipelines powered precision ad targeting across WhatsApp, push, and web channels, driving a 25% CTR uplift and 15% conversion increase.

Education

  • B.S. Computer Science

    BITs Mesra (2016)