Kushagra Agarwal

Kushagra Agarwal is a Co-Founder at Samudai and a Kernel Block III Member at Gitcoin since 2021. Kushagra is also an Ethereum India Foundation Fellow at Devfolio since 2021. In 2020, they were a Digital Transformation Intern at GTGC Technical Services, where they worked with the C-suite to create a qualitative assessment portal for unbiased feedback & reward system for the employees, was trained by the company's business coach on Leadership in Action, and developed an integrated ERP solution for the implementation of the 4-quadrant performance approach. In 2019, they were a Blockchain Developer Intern at Nvest Global Enterprises, where they worked with the CTO to build a smart contract-based liquidity pool by aggregating 4+ sources to solve liquidity problems in decentralized exchanges and boosted transaction to 600 TPS & reduced transaction confirmation to 10 secs by building a decentralized exchange relay & off-chain order book. In 2018, they were a Senior Intern and Web Development Intern at WittyFeed, where they created a new recommendation system with the CTO, increasing user time spend by 2.3x and handled 1.3 Million concurrent requests using GoLang. In 2021, they were a Project Intern at IBM, where they were part of the Digital Transformation Labs and developed an eLearning portal for B2B clients to be used by organizations to conveniently manage content and gain analytical insights for effective marketing, created an authentication solution enabling automated OTP authentication by a chatbot, and worked with the Code Patterns team to publish technical solutions for GSIs using IBM cloud services.

Kushagra Agarwal's education history includes a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Vellore Institute of Technology, a CBSE from DPS Mathura Road, and an ICSE from Sherwood College, Nainital. Kushagra also has several certifications, including Boosting Creativity for Innovation HEC Paris from Coursera obtained in November 2020, Leadership in Action from Jack Welch Management Institute obtained in July 2020, Design Thinking Practitioner from IBM obtained in June 2020, and Understanding Financial Markets from Coursera obtained in June 2020.