San Francisco, California, United States
Aditya Agarwal is a Partner at South Park Commons (SPC) - a collective of technologists, tinkerers, and entrepreneurs who have come together to freely learn, explore new ideas, and help each other get from -1 to 0. Based in San Francisco, New York City, and Bangalore, SPC has over 800 members and alumni who have either started their own companies or gone on to join top organizations like Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Prior to SPC, Aditya was the CTO and VP of Engineering at Dropbox. He scaled the Engineering team from 25 to 1000 and was responsible for new product development, infrastructure and technical operations. Aditya came to Dropbox via the acquisition of Cove, a company that he co-founded. Before Cove, Aditya was one of Facebook’s first engineers. He helped build the first versions of key products like Search, NewsFeed and Messenger. He then became Facebook’s first director of Product Engineering, overseeing engineering for products like NewsFeed, Profile, Groups and Events. Aditya serves as an independent director on the board of Flipkart, India’s leading e-commerce company. He is on the advisory board of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science and on the board of trustees of the Anita Borg Institute. He is also an active investor and advisor to Silicon Valley startups. In his spare time, Aditya likes to listen to techno music, read, travel and most of all, hang out with three children. Aditya holds a bachelors and masters degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.