# Kunal Agarwal

> Software Engineer @ Stripe

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kunalagarwal

Hi! I am a student at UC Berkeley, completing my Master's Degree in Computer Science. Visit my website to learn more!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2022 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Berkeley RISE Lab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States
- Worked on Lux, a Python library extending Pandas for data visualization, under Doris Lee and Professor Aditya Parameswaran.
- Added several important features relating to backwards compatibility, history tracking, and test coverage with Pandas.
- Contributed to paper Lux: Always-on Visualization Recommendations for Exploratory Data Science.

### Data 100: Undergraduate Student Instructor @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, CA
- Head TA for Principles/Techniques of Data Science with over 1300 students (the largest upper division classes at UC Berkeley).
- Taught weekly lab and discussion sections of 30 students on topics including data visualization and analysis, data cleaning, regressions, classifiers, cross-validation, and more, in addition to holding weekly office hours.
- Responsible for various logistical duties including writing, proctoring, and grading exams, building and maintaining homework assignments, and leading a large staff of 50 TAs, tutors, and academic interns.
- Awarded the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, given to the top 10% of TAs across UC Berkeley.

### CS 61A: Tutor @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
· Teaching three sections of six to seven students bi-weekly on computer science topics including recursion, trees, linked lists, and more.
· Responsible for various logistical duties including grading and proctoring exams, grading projects, and running review sessions.

### Full Stack Engineering Intern @ Virtualitics, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Pasadena, California, United States
- Utilized backend tools such as Flask, Celery, and RabbitMQ to integrate Predict with Amazon Web Services.
- Completed projects including an automated scheduler (APScheduler), automated email alerts, and websocket connections.

### Senior Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Junior Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
· Tutored a small group of four students weekly on key concepts from CS 61A (Introductory Computer Science class @ UC Berkeley).
· Participated in weekly group meetings with other computer science mentors to improve our teaching skills.
· Helped run a final review session for the entire class by assisting with content creation.

### Computer Science Intern @ Berkeley Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, CA
· Re-engineered, packaged, and released a novel data compression algorithm in C where I used debugging software including Valgrind and gdb.
· Used the compression algorithm to find anomalies in inputted data using a variety of clustering algorithms in Scikit-learn packages. 
· Presented progress every other week to the Scientific Data Management group and presented research findings at lab wide poster session.

### CS 61A Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
· Assisted in lab sections weekly by reinforcing each student’s understanding of course material and providing conceptual support.
· Provided support in office hours weekly by guiding students through comprehensive classifier and interpreter projects.

### Web Developer @ Pioneers in Engineering
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
· Maintained website [pioneers.berkeley.edu] using HTML/CSS.
· Repaired and improved parts of the website by debugging margin issues, photo quality, and CSS stylesheet issues and adding features required by the team.
· Redesigned the website to make it user-friendly by changing the organization of information, replacing the layout of the front page, and reformatting the way in which the website looped through XML files.

### Canvass Captain @ Ro Khanna for Congress
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
· Mentored new interns in canvassing and phone banking and taught them valuable campaigning skills. 
· Responsible for creating turfs and running canvassing sessions

### Intern @ Ro Khanna for Congress
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016

### Summer Intern @ Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
· Drafted cover letters for immigration cases, organized filing cabinets, learned about immigration laws. 
· Visited San Francisco Immigration Court to witness immigration calendar hearings.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley

### High School
Mission San Jose High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kagarwal2
- Portfolio: https://www.kunal-agarwal.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29