# Astha Agrawal

> Software Engineer  | Backend Developer | People Manager | Robust, Observable, and Scalable Micro Service Architect

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/asthaagrawal

I am a strategic and results-oriented leader adept at managing high-performing software engineering team with 8+ Software Engineers.  My specialty lies in driving end-to-end software development to achieve product deliverables and align with company goals in a timely manner.

I accomplish this through cross-team collaboration, clear communication, and meticulous roadmap planning. Drawing from my extensive experience in system design, APIs, and proficiency across various backend technologies within agile methodologies, I ensure streamlined execution and optimal outcomes.

My success stems from proactive planning and close partnership with product and program management teams, fostering a synergistic environment that propels projects towards excellence.

Industry expertise complimented by 8+ years of experience in Backend Software Engineering using technologies like Java, Spring Framework, building Rest and gRPC APIs, caching strategies, Splunk queries, AWS cloud to develop robust, observable, and scalable micro services.

I have hired and mentored several team members and contributed to their career and performance goals.

As a part of agile team I have developed end to end features including designing, planning, implementing, testing, performance, deployment, and monitoring.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Verily
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineering Manager @ Expedia Group
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Leading a team of 8+ Engineers for developing product features and modernizing tech stack in the Ground Transportation and rental car supply domain. Working with cross functional partners, stakeholders and product team to identify business problems, roadmap creation and execution. Leading technical and design discussions to achieve scalable and resilient solutions.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Expedia Group
Jan 2017 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco
Developing end to end product features including designing, planning, implementing, testing, performance, deployment and monitoring as a part of Hotwire Hotels team.

### Software Engineer @ Butterfleye Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Mateo
•	Built an Amazon Alexa API that answers questions about the timeline events of the Butterfleye camera
•	Successfully designed & implemented scaling architecture supporting back-end application for camera and iOS app
•	Used Kafka queuing to implement stateless architecture on Amazon Cloud
•	Implemented transcoding algorithm for converting videos from camera to Apple HLS playlist
•	Migrated entire codebase from Python to Java
•	Designed API’s for app and camera using Restful services
•	Deployment of codebase to production on Amazon EC2 instances using Auto Scaling group
•	Skilled in AWS services: EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, Cloud Front, Load balancers, NFS


## Education
### Master of Science (MSc) in Cybernetics and communication
Nottingham Trent University

### Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Science
Jaypee University of Information Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/agarwalastha

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Last updated: 2026-04-05