Aditya Agarwal

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Aditya Agarwal is a computer engineer and engineering manager of Indian origin. He has worked at Facebook, Cove, and Dropbox.

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Early life and education

Agarwal was born in India. His father was a chemical engineer and his mother was a homemaker. Agarwal movd with his family to many countries: Cameroon, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, and eventually settled in the United States. He was interested in computers and programming since a young age, and took programming classes while in Indonesia.

After completing high school, Agarwal went to Carnegie Mellon University to pursue computer science.

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Career

Facebook

After graduating CMU in 2004, Agarwal saw many of his batchmates move to Wall Street (the financial sector), but he wanted to enter the technology sector, so he began work at Oracle in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2005, he met Mark Zuckerberg after being introduced by a mutual acquaintaince. Zuckerberg, who had started Facebook in 2004, impressed Agarwal, leading Agarwal to begin work at Facebook. Agarwal also persuaded his former CMU colleague and future wife Ruchi Sanghvi to work at Facebook.

Agarwal and Sanghvi worked at Facebook till 2010.

Cove and Dropbox

After leaving Facebook, Agarwal and his wife Ruchi Sanghvi, co-founded Cover, a stealth collaboration startup. In February 2012, it was announced that Dropbox was acquiring Cove, and that both Agarwal and Sanghvi were joining Dropbox.

In October 2016, Agarwal was promoted from vice-president of engineering to chief technology officer (CTO), replacing co-founder Arash Ferdowsi.

In July 2017, Agarwal announced in a Facebook post that he was leaving Dropbox, while expressing excitement about its trajectory.

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Personal life

Agarwal is married to engineer Ruchi Sanghvi, who was also his co-worker at Facebook and Dropbox and co-founder with him of Cove (which was acquired by Dropbox). The couple married in 2010 in India, with Mark Zuckerberg attending the wedding.