# Shreyas Agrawal > Software Engineer @ Synchron | Building BCI-Driven Digital Interfaces Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shreyasagrawal From New Delhi to Nepal to the U.S.– now, I'm a software engineer in NYC, helping build FDA-grade brain-computer interfaces that let paralyzed ALS patients control digital devices like iPads, Vision Pro, and smart homes using only their brain signals. Always open to tech-for-good collabs! ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Synchron Jan 2025 – Present | Brooklyn, New York, United States Forward Deployed ### Software Engineer I @ Synchron Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Brooklyn, New York, United States ### Software Engineer Intern @ Synchron Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 ### Software Engineer Intern @ Synchron Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Brooklyn, New York, United States Collaborated in an agile software team to design cloud software architecture documents and develop a cloud backend using AWS CDK (Python), facilitating various services in Synchron's applications ### Project Co-Leader @ Food Recovery Network Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Grinnell, Iowa, United States Led Grinnell's chapter of Food Recovery Network. This is a project consisting of 80 students from Grinnell College to recover food, repackage food, and redistribute food to the Grinnell community. On average, we recover 11,000 lbs of food per year from a small college of 1700 students! ### Founding Member @ GrinTECH Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Grinnell, Iowa, United States Founding member of GrinTECH which is a student-run organization at Grinnell College which uses technology for social good. In the club, I cooperate with 4 other students weekly to oversee workshops, volunteering, and alumni events centered around building careers in tech, tech education, and using tech for social good. Recently, we hosted a 50+ member Python crash course to empower beginners and create an inclusive, accessible environment for students to polish their programming skills. ### OS and Algorithms Mentor @ Grinnell College Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Grinnell, Iowa, United States Mentoring CSC 213 (Operating Systems and Parallel Algorithms) course at Grinnell College. ### Data Science Mentor @ Grinnell College Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Grinnell, Iowa, United States At Data Analysis and Social Inquiry Lab (DASIL), mentored and advised students and faculty on using Python, R, and ArcGIS for data wrangling, analyzing, and modeling for their assignments, projects, and research. ### Technical Development and Operations Intern @ SpaySecure Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | California, United States Developed an infrastructure for clients and admin to report and track problematic buyers, resulting in a more efficient incident management process, and implemented a permanent database of non-compliant buyers with an alert system to notify clients when attempting to sell to a non-compliant buyer. Implemented a system for automating the identification of new potential clients using data analysis techniques, Airtable Javascript, and Slack integration for efficient sales team alerting. ### Undergraduate Researcher in Data Science @ Grinnell College Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Grinnell, Iowa, United States As part of the research team, I will be wrangling, visualizing, and analyzing data collected through surveys with over 600 participants from 5 different universities across the United States. Using data visualization and analytics tools, I will be evaluating the effectiveness of using games to teach statistical concepts. Then, using the analysis and predictions from Machine Learning models I will be working with the game design team to make data-driven changes to the games to make them more effective. I will also be improving the website design along with creating new webpages for the DataSpace Grinnell website. ### Community Advisor @ Grinnell College Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Iowa, United States Community Advisor, also known as CA or RA, for my residence hall. I lead multiple events in the community to bring it together throughout the semester. Ocasionally deal with 1:1 situations that include room mate disagreement, academic stress, mental health issues, etc. On-call CA once a week where I may be called at any time during the night if an unforeseen situation comes up in the community. I'm also in charge of making the bulletin boards to relay information and entertain the residents. Before the role started, it included 60 hours of training to prepare us for the role of community advisors ### Computer Science Mentor @ Grinnell College Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Iowa, United States Mentor students in foundations of C by programming MyroC Robots, helping engage students in basic problem-solving skills and also facilitate office hours to assist over 50 students in basic data structures, sorting algorithms, and other OOP concepts in Java for 4 hours weekly. ### Network Services Specialist Intern @ Grinnell College Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Grinnell, Iowa, United States Modified Ansible roles for automation and configuration management of Linux workstations. Modified bash scripts in an open source software, Fully Automated Installation (FAI) to perform automated OS upgrades on campus Linux workstations. Required shell scripting and command line utilities for debugging. Also worked on enhancing the user experience through an upgraded user interface. ### Mailroom Assistant @ Grinnell College Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Grinnell, Iowa, United States Cashier at the front desk of campus mailroom, which developed my customer interactions and accounting skills. Also, recieved new packages into the mailing system, and delivered packages to students at front desk, where I had to pay attention to detail to ensure an error free system. ### Digital Access Student Leader @ Grinnell College Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Grinnell, Iowa, United States Assistant at the office of Disability resources center at Grinnell College. Primary task is to make documents accessible to students with disabilities by following the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). ### Dining Hall Worker @ Grinnell College Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Grinnell, Iowa, United States Worked at the Grinnell College Dining Hall as a student worker where I performed various tasks like washing dishes, serving food, and cleaning/sanitation. ### Publicity Coordinator @ International Student Organization Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Grinnell, Iowa, United States Elected to be the publicity coordinator for the biggest student organization on Campus at Grinnell College that promotes international understanding within and beyond the Grinnell community. It also encourages students to explore and experience different cultures. The organization also acts as a networking group for members. ### Tech Resilience Mentorship Program @ Microsoft Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Virtual A 6 week long Microsoft Technical Resilience Mentoring Program where we walked through a structured set of activities and discussed strategies that make you tech resilient. Learned practical skills to help me navigate life, studies, and future career. ### Project Assistant Intern @ Antarprerana Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal Company working towards turning ideas into businesses. A business networking company for entrepreneurs. Intern at the position of Project Support Intern where I assisted the project manager to manage a huge scale goat farming business in Nepal. I created and published innovative business plan for a goat farming startup that empowered entrepreneurs across impoverished Nepali villages to reach financial independence and self-sustenance. I also designed detailed infographic models from key performance indicators including product revenue, income, quality control, and impact assessment data to help track historical company milestones. ### Software Engineer Intern @ CLINIS Pvt. Ltd Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal An Australian IT company based in Nepal working to improve medical facilities using IT. Programming in C#. CLINIS was in need for an alert system to let them know of server failures. I built an IP address ping failure alert system in C# and integrated with Slack using API Integration to enhance user troubleshooting experience. Also, implemented service to store IP addresses in JSON and transfer messages to respective webhooks using SlackBotMessages API. Used Quartz to schedule IP address ping to execute in repeated time intervals for ongoing user support. ### Head of Management and Marketing @ Amore guest house Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Kathmandu, Bāgmatī, Nepal This is a guesthouse in Kathmandu to accommodate tourists. During my internship, I did marketing for the guesthouse through social media and flyer distributions. I was also helping to manage the daily logistics at a guesthouse ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science with Honors, Statistics concentration Grinnell College ### Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Cryptography, Theory of Computing, Hungarian AIT-Budapest ### High School Diploma in Computer Science, Physics, Math, Chemistry The British School Kathmandu ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shrey21 - GitHub: https://github.com/shreyasagrawal - Website: https://grintech.sites.grinnell.edu/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/shreyasagrawal JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shreyasagrawal/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01