Aditya Agrawal
Senior Software Engineer · Technical Lead
Summary
Senior software engineer with experience building backend platforms, distributed systems, and AI-native products at high-growth startups. Led technical direction across architecture, reliability, and product delivery at YC-backed companies. Deep expertise in PostgreSQL, system design, and production-grade APIs. Track record of scaling engineering teams, raising engineering standards, and shipping complex systems from zero to production.
Technical Expertise
- Technical leadership
- System design
- Backend architecture
- Distributed systems
- PostgreSQL
- AI systems
- Reliability engineering
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Python
- Redis
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Experience
Avoca Labs (YC W23, Unicorn)
Founding Engineer
- Lead architecture and delivery of AI voice and text platforms for home service businesses, owning product and engineering end-to-end.
- Architected agent-driven text booking with tool orchestration across availability, pricing, customer history, fees, and scheduling.
- Scaled outbound engagement systems spanning calls, follow-ups, reminders, estimates, renewals, and reactivation campaigns.
- Designed CRM integrations, data synchronization, and workflow automation to convert conversations into structured business outcomes.
- Established platform reliability standards while hiring, mentoring, and leading engineers across core systems.
Fyle Technologies (Acquired by Sage)
Principal Software Engineer
- Led modernization of the core expense management platform, improving performance, scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity.
- Delivered an internal AI assistant unifying tickets, knowledge bases, video content, and Slack to reduce customer success onboarding time.
- Owned backend architecture, design reviews, and engineering standards for testing, deployment, and observability.
- Optimized PostgreSQL performance at scale; mentored engineers and influenced technical hiring decisions.
SuperAPI (YC W23)
Co-Founder / CTO
- Co-founded and led engineering for an enterprise API caching platform with intelligent invalidation beyond TTL-based strategies.
- Architected production infrastructure across Redis, PostgreSQL, Debezium CDC, Nginx, Docker, and AWS.
- Defined product and technical strategy through customer discovery and early go-to-market execution.
Education
- Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering — National Institute of Technology, Raipur
Writing
- Publishes technical writing on backend systems, PostgreSQL, distributed architecture, and production reliability at adiagr.com/blog, covering query optimization, multi-tenancy, authentication, and API security.
Strengths
Combines product judgment, systems thinking, and engineering leadership with clear problem framing, pragmatic architecture, and a high engineering bar.