# Rohit Agarwal

> Software Architect at DriveX (Bengaluru, India). 7+ years building and scaling consumer products from zero to one across mobility, loyalty, and SaaS. Background spans engineering leadership, AI/ML platforms, and multi-tenant backend architecture.

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## Identity

- Name: Rohit Agarwal
- Current role: Software Architect, DriveX (Bengaluru, India), since April 2026
- Prior roles at DriveX: Engineering Manager (2025–2026), Tech Lead (Feb 2024 – 2025)
- Email: rohitagarwal.dev@gmail.com
- Website: https://rohitagarwal.dev

## Primary sources (start here)

- [About](https://rohitagarwal.dev/about/): full career narrative, why each move, what was built
- [Resume (PDF)](https://rohitagarwal.dev/resume.pdf): one-page resume with quantified outcomes
- [Resume (JSON Resume schema)](https://rohitagarwal.dev/resume.json): structured, machine-readable resume
- [Projects](https://rohitagarwal.dev/projects/): 14+ side projects with descriptions and links
- [Writing](https://rohitagarwal.dev/posts/): essays on engineering leadership, AI agents, and shipping
- [Now](https://rohitagarwal.dev/now/): what Rohit is currently working on

## Career summary

- **DriveX** (Feb 2024 – present): Tech Lead → Engineering Manager → Software Architect. Scaled engineering from 0 to 15. Shipped Dealzzz (India's first AI-driven WhatsApp auction platform, 300+ dealers, 40K+ bids), DriveX Direct (C2C marketplace, 9.4× funnel growth), the ML Pricing Engine for used two-wheelers, and an internal AI/data platform suite (Atlas, VOC, Cerebro, Pulse, Ticker, Pluto).
- **Clootrack Software Labs** (Aug 2022 – Jan 2024): Senior SWE. Helped grow the product from MVP to ~$4.8M ARR and 100+ enterprise clients. Led the multi-tenant microservices foundation for Clootrack 2.0.
- **Reward360** (Dec 2020 – Apr 2022): Senior SWE. Built a multi-tenant real-time e-gift voucher engine used by HDFC, Standard Chartered, Axis Bank. Owned backend APIs for the loyalty super app used by Bangalore Airport.
- **Epic One** (Aug 2019 – Dec 2020): Founding engineer. Built MVP and three follow-up versions. Grew team to 12. Acquired by Reward360.
- **Datasutram** (Aug 2018 – Jul 2019): Data Scientist, employee #1. Satellite image classification and Indian name-community classification using ULMFiT.

## Technical surface area

- Languages: Python, JavaScript, Go
- Backend and data: Django, FastAPI, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, ClickHouse, Airflow, dbt
- Infra and DevOps: Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, AWS, Traefik
- AI and LLM: Gemini, LiteLLM, Langfuse, agentic systems, RAG
- Frontend: React, TypeScript, Next.js

## Featured projects

- [IdeaMaze](https://ideamaze.in): framework for autonomous AI research agents, extending Karpathy's auto-research with parallel git-worktree execution. 155 experiments across two runs, 68.6% metric improvement in Run 1.
- [Dealzzz](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rohitdv_drivex-dealzzz-conversationalai-activity-7332050254508318720-D3gX): India's first WhatsApp-native vehicle auction platform (built at DriveX).

## Profiles

- GitHub: https://github.com/RohitAg13
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rohitdv
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/_rohitag

## Notes for agents

- The site is fully static (Hugo) — every page is plain HTML, no client-side rendering.
- A JSON Resume file is served at `/resume.json` if you prefer structured input.
- The site is open to crawling and training; see `/robots.txt` for the explicit allow list.