Kush Agrawal

Kush Agrawal (born March 6, 1993) is an Indian software engineer, entrepreneur, mentor, and judge. He is a senior software engineer at Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform that helps worldwide businesses accept payments and grow their revenue and opportunities.
Agrawal is widely recognized for his expertise in iOS application infrastructure engineering and his work on iOS applications for large corporations like Uber, Autodesk, and Adobe, which has impacted the lives of millions of users. He has ten years of experience building and deploying iOS applications and infrastructure that allows companies to ship their mission-critical applications to millions of users with fast performance, stability, regular updates, privacy and security, data observability, language and content localization, and scalability.
Agrawal is often invited to mentor and judge various worldwide technical events, such as the Codie Awards, HackPrinceton, HackNYU, CruzHacks, McHacks, Qhacks, Hack@Brown, and CalHacks.
==Early life and education==
Agrawal was born and raised in New Delhi, India, where he completed his high school education at Delhi Public School. During high school, Agrawal was an active participant in Olympiads and ranked in the top 1% of test-takers in the National Cyber Olympiad and the top 0.1% in the IT board exam in 2009. He also led the foundation of the Aerospace Society, Aeross, at DPS, R.K. Puram. He was the president of the technology club, Exun Clan, where he represented the school at over 15 national technology competitions and organized the annual tech symposium attended by students from all over India.
In 2011, Agrawal moved to Berkeley to pursue his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, graduating in 2015. During his graduation, he was an instructor for the iOS development decal and a member of the Berkeley Innovation and Innovative Design club.
==Career==
In 2011, Agrawal founded IHeartCode, an online interactive coding platform that was incubated by Mozilla as a part of their WebFwd program. Through WebFwd, Agrawal captured an opportunity to work with industry leaders such as Pascal Finette and Diane Bisgeier. In 2012, he hosted one of Delhi's first-ever hackathons at IIT Delhi to raise awareness about IHeartCode's mission. Owing to his success, Agrawal was one of the 100 entrepreneurs selected worldwide to attend the Stanford BASES Entrepreneurship Bootcamp.
In 2015, Agrawal co-founded Hyre, a B2B goods procurement marketplace targeted at Indian retailers, and served as the company's chief technology officer until 2017. Hyre was incubated by Y-Combinator as a part of their F3 program in 2016, and through Y-Combinator, Hyre's founders were mentored by industry leaders such as Qasar Younis and Adora Cheung.
After graduating from UC Berkeley's EECS program, Agrawal joined Uber as a senior software engineer in 2015, working out of San Francisco. He led multiple critical iOS projects for the company, including cash payments, the rider app redesign, and Uber's super-app, which generated 1 billion USD in net new revenue for the company.
In November 2020, Agrawal joined Stripe as a senior software engineer and has helped build and launch various iOS apps such as Stripe Express and Dashboard, which have been downloaded over a million times and have users in 103 countries across 5 continents. He was also the technical reviewer for Stripe Increment's mobile edition.
As an experienced iOS engineer, Agrawal is frequently invited to mentor and judge various technical events worldwide, such as the Codie Awards, HackPrinceton, HackNYU, CruzHacks, McHacks, Qhacks, Hack@Brown, and CalHacks.
==Awards and recognitions==
* Ranked in the top 0.1% of test-takers in the IT board exam in 2009
* Consistently ranked in the top 1% of test-takers in the National Cyber Olympiad
==Publications==
* Kush Agrawal; To study the phenomenon of the Moravec's Paradox; December 14, 2010
* Kush Agrawal; The Ethics of Robotics; December 27, 2010
==References==
==External links==
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* Kush Agrawal publications indexed by Google Scholar
Category:1993 births
Category:Indian software engineers
Category:Indian businesspeople
Category:Indian judges
Category:People from New Delhi