Manu Agarwal

Principal Engineer at Elastics.cloud, Inc.

Manu Agarwal has extensive work experience in the software engineering field. Manu is currently working as a Principal Engineer at Elastics.cloud, Inc. since August 2022. Previously, they worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Tally Solutions Pvt Ltd from June 2018 to April 2022.

Agarwal also worked as a Software Architect at Libre Wireless Technologies Pvt. Ltd. from April 2014 to May 2018. Manu led a team of engineers in delivering a feature-rich Multi Room Audio solution and was responsible for Android porting to a low memory module running an OpenWrt Kernel.

Before that, Agarwal worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Microchip (SMSC, BridgeCo) from July 2011 to March 2014. Manu managed the Pioneer AVR and Speaker Dock program, designed and developed a DSD decoder for the JukeBlox platform, and optimized the FLAC decoder by offloading CPU intensive tasks to a coprocessor.

Manu also worked as a Technical Leader at Walnut Technologies from May 2010 to April 2011. There, they conducted research and development on a product idea, successfully interfaced major hardware blocks in a smart energy meter, and evaluated SoC solutions from different vendors.

Agarwal started their career as a Senior Technical Specialist at Kyocera Wireless India from July 2008 to April 2010. Manu'sresponsibilities included working on the security features of mobile phones, implementing a serial-port locking facility, and providing bug fixes.

Manu began their professional journey as a Software Engineer at Flextronics Designs Pvt. Ltd. from August 2004 to June 2008. Manu'snotable achievements include designing and developing the File Information Manager module and the Music Metadata module for a Personal Media Player for Car Entertainment.

Manu Agarwal completed their Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications from Siddaganga Institute Of Technology, Tumkur, from 2000 to 2004. Prior to that, they attended Salt Lake School, although specific details about their degree and field of study during that time are not provided.

In terms of additional certifications, Manu Agarwal obtained a PG Program in Big Data Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani in September 2019. Manu also completed several online courses on various topics, such as Graph Search, Shortest Paths, and Data Structures, Identifying Security Vulnerabilities, Divide and Conquer, Sorting and Searching, and Randomized Algorithms, Fundamentals of Parallelism on Intel Architecture, and Principles of Secure Coding. These courses were obtained from Coursera in 2020, with specific completion dates ranging from January to February.

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  • Principal Engineer

    August, 2022 - present