Shantanu Agarwal

Shantanu Agarwal is a highly skilled professional with extensive experience in software engineering and artificial intelligence. Currently serving as a Staff Software Engineer at Meta since June 2025, Shantanu focuses on building agentic AI. Prior to this role, Shantanu worked at Balbix as a Senior AI Engineer, implementing an NLP deep learning model for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and at Goldman Sachs as an Associate Jr Researcher in Prime Brokerage. Additional experience includes a Project Scientist position at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where Shantanu crowdsourced a task-oriented dialog dataset and developed models using TF-IDF, MemN2N, and GPT2. Early career contributions included work as a Software Trainee at Samsung R&D Institute India and internships at iLenze, focusing on deep learning. Shantanu holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, demonstrating a strong academic foundation with a top GPA in both programs.