# Vivek Agarwal

> Software Engineering Leader at Ford Motor

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vivekagarwal

Achievement-oriented, hands-on, proactive Senior Technical Lead with proven track record of building high quality production software across wide domains. Over 15+ years of experience in designing and developing software products and prototypes of server backend, mobile, embedded and network applications. Ability and drive to learn and apply new technologies.

Skills / Experience
• Experience leading/mentoring technical teams. Working with remote teams.
• Contributed in Software design/development/architecture.
• Experience in Java/C/C++
• Experience with technologies – Kafka, Docker, Kubernettes, MQTT, Redis, Kong.
• Experience with Jenkins, Git, Maven.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Ford Motor Company
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineering Manager @ Autonomic
Jan 2022 – Present | United States
- Leading a talented team of 7-9 engineers, I am responsible for ensuring the smooth and secure operation of our backend services. Additionally, I am dedicated to optimizing scalability to accommodate the growing number of vehicles and increasing traffic demands.
- Responsible for Autonomic's crypto services, which ensure secure end-to-end communication between vehicles and clouds, Multi Module Over the Air software update (MMOTA) and cloud-to-cloud communication.

### Sr. Manager/Technical Lead @ Aeris Communications
Jan 2015 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Aeris Communications a pioneer and leader in IoT / M2M industry with Connectivity as a Service, Platform as a Service and Telematics as a Service solutions. In the Connected Car space - Aeris is a valued supplier to tier one automotive OEM.

### Director/Manager, Software Engineering @ SEVEN Networks
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on company flagship product Open Channel to optimize mobile network traffic.

Open Channel was proven to reduce 34% of network signaling, with potential to translate to $36B of additional wireless capacity in 2015 alone, and improve battery life of smartphones by 17%

### Engineering Manager R&D @ SNRLabs
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013
Acquired by Seven Networks in February 2013. Designed and developed device based QoE software for multi-radio connectivity management. Files Patents on calculating network QoE.

### Staff/Senior System Engineer @ SNRLabs
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

### Lead Engineer @ Texas Instruments through Sasken
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008

### Senior Software Engineer @ Texas Instruments through Sasken
Jan 2003 – Jan 2006

### Software Engineer @ Texas Instruments through Sasken
Jan 2002 – Jan 2003

### Software Programmer/Teaching Assistant @ EPFL
Jan 2001 – Jan 2001
Teaching Assistant to Prof. Bixio Rimoldi. Also worked on one of the mobile communication research projects under him.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

### Student  Exchange through IIT Delhi in Mobile Communications
EPFL


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vivek-agarwal-46119b2

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Last updated: 2026-04-12