Pallavi Agarwal

Sr. Director / Head Of Engineering, Monetization at Nextdoor

Pallavi Agarwal has an extensive work experience with various companies and roles. Pallavi is currently working at Nextdoor as the Head of Revenue Engineering, where they lead engineering teams responsible for revenue products such as Performance Advertising and Promotions. Pallavi is also hiring professionals with expertise in Infra, ML, Full-stack, and Backend.

Prior to that, Pallavi worked at Pinterest as the Head of Advertiser Infrastructure, where they led the advertiser infrastructure team, overseeing API platform, reporting, data and analytics, and entities management.

Before joining Pinterest, Pallavi worked at LinkedIn for several years in different roles. Pallavi served as the Head of Engineering for the LinkedIn Audience Network (LAN) business, managing a geo-distributed team and ensuring successful delivery of ads served by LinkedIn adserver to trusted publishers. Pallavi also held the position of Senior Engineering Manager, leading teams focused on ads optimization infrastructure, ads serving, indexing, and real-time feedback systems.

Pallavi's previous experience includes working at Groupon as an Engineering Manager for Data Platform and Recommendation Products, where they built a data platform, developed ML feature pipelines, and launched products that led to revenue growth. Pallavi also worked as a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead for Groupon Deals Recommendation.

Additionally, Pallavi has experience working at MakeMyTrip, Exponential, GlobalLogic, and the Universal Digital Library. In these roles, they contributed to the development of various software projects, including building an ads manager, launching a travel website, and developing a user adaptive meta-search engine.

Overall, Pallavi Agarwal has a strong background in engineering and leadership roles, with a focus on revenue products, infrastructure, optimization, and serving systems. Pallavi has a track record of driving significant revenue growth and successfully leading teams across multiple organizations.

Pallavi Agarwal obtained their Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad, where they studied from 2002 to 2006. In addition to their formal education, they have also earned various certifications from LinkedIn. These certifications include "Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers" (obtained in November 2020), "Coaching and Developing Employees" (obtained in September 2020), "Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant on Option B: Building Resilience" (obtained in September 2020), "Learning to Be Assertive" (obtained in February 2020), "Managing Up" (obtained in February 2020), "Selling to Executives" (obtained in February 2020), "Leadership Strategies for Women" (obtained in June 2019), "Critical Thinking" (obtained in September 2016), and "Sallie Krawcheck on Risk-Taking" (obtained in September 2016).

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  • Sr. Director / Head Of Engineering, Monetization

    June, 2022 - present