Agrawal joined Twitter as Distinguished Software Engineer in 2011 and became the chief technology officer in 2017.
He holds a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a Ph.D in Computer Science from Stanford University. Between 2006 and 2009, he worked in two short stints at Microsoft, with a research role at Yahoo in between. He held a short role at AT&T Labs in 2010, before joining Twitter in 2011.
At Twitter, Agrawal became the company’s first ‘Distinguished Engineer’ because of his work on revenue and consumer engineering, and for having considerable impact on the company with his work on re-accelerating audience growth in 2016 and 2017. In October 2017, Agrawal was appointed Twitter’s chief technology officer (CTO), which is the role that he served until today.
Agrawal was put in charge of Project Bluesky by Dorsey back in 2019, which is the company’s efforts towards building an “open and decentralised" social media standard. The platform straddles a division that is called Twitter Crypto, which is Twitter’s work on using blockchain technology to achieve its decentralisation goals.
Agarwal joins other techies like Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who may be the two best known Indian names in tech.
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