Akshat Agarwal

Akshat Agarwal is an experienced software engineer currently serving as an Agent Engineer at Sematext Group, Inc. since September 2024. Previously, Akshat held the position of Software Engineer at Aurva, where responsibilities included developing an eBPF collector for the Aurva Dataplane, facilitating egress monitoring, database activity monitoring, DNS tracing, and SSL tracing with minimal overhead. Notable work experience also includes a Software Engineer Intern role at Headout, where Akshat developed backend APIs for booking management and introduced an audio guide feature, as well as internships at Accuknox, NixOS, and with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Akshat holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, graduated in 2023. Proficient in technologies such as eBPF, C, Go, Kubernetes, Rust, Kotlin, and Java.