# Ishaan Agrawal

> swe @ Extend (YC23) | Guinness WR blindfolded Rubik’s Cube (22.67s) | Top 99.95% competitive coding | Ex rank #1 competitive Pokemon Go | Ex-pro poker | Self-taught engineer!

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ishaanagrawal

Blindfolded Rubik's Cube Guinness world record holder (22.67 seconds): youtube.com/watch?v=N8MNEngonTs
Top 99.95% competitive coding (2778 LeetCode rating), solved >4000 questions

eng #2 @ Extend AI (YC W23), self-taught SWE.

Former professional poker player! I ❤️ game theory.

Former rank #1 in the world at competitive Pokemon Go.

ishaan.agrawal@berkeley.edu
https://github.com/ishaanbuildsthings

BS in business administration @ Berkeley Haas. I did not like business school ;)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Extend
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States
eng #2, YC23, self-taught.

### Competitive Programming (Top 99.95%) @ Unknown
Jan 2023 – Present
ranked in the top 99.95% of competitive coders (~2800 ELO on Leetcode) and have solved >4000 questions on various platforms. Teaching at leetgoat.io

### Pokemon Go Boosting Empire @ Unknown
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
I owned >50 cell phones and operated a Pokemon Go boosting empire for 2 years. I made >5,000 sales to customers with a perfect 5.0 review rating across eBay and Etsy. I sold to high-profile clients like doctors, lawyers, and even celebrities.

I also briefly reached #1 in the world at competitive Pokemon Go Battle League.

### Professional Poker @ Unknown
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
I trained under the #2 player in the world and played professional high-stakes poker online during Covid. 

Win-rate of >4BB/100 (top 1% of players) in some of the hardest fields. Used game theory, math, statistics, and probability to model opponent's play and develop exploitative counter-strategies.

Won a lot of money and met some interesting people.

### Guinness World Record - Blindfolded Rubik's Cube (22.67 seconds) @ Unknown
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, California, United States
I broke the world record for solving a Rubik's cube while blindfolded in 22.67 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8MNEngonTs

Skipped my classes at UC Berkeley and flew around the world competing in tournaments. I had the privilege of being sponsored by both the worlds largest speed-cubing retailer and manufacturer. I traveled to many cool places such as Paris for the 2017 Rubik's Cube World Championships.

I then built algfinder.com to generate efficient solutions for blindfolded-solving because it sucked doing it by hand.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Business Administration and Management, General
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ishaan-agrawal
- Portfolio: https://extend.ai

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Last updated: 2026-03-29