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Aditya Agarwal | Profile
Profile at a glance
Aditya Agarwal is a General Partner at South Park Commons. His career includes early engineering at Facebook, co-founding collaboration startup Cove, and serving as Dropbox’s CTO and VP of Engineering. The firm says he scaled Dropbox’s engineering team from 25 to 1,000. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Key facts
| Current role | General Partner at South Park Commons |
|---|---|
| Dropbox | Former CTO and VP of Engineering; the firm says he scaled the engineering team from 25 to 1,000 |
| Early engineer and the company’s first Director of Product Engineering | |
| Education | Bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University |
Experience
His public career spans product engineering, startup founding, large-scale engineering leadership and venture investing. South Park Commons does not provide dates for the earlier roles.
Career and roles
- South Park Commons · General Partner
Current on the firm team page; start date not disclosed
- Dropbox · Chief Technology Officer and VP of Engineering
Before South Park Commons; dates not disclosed · The firm says he scaled the engineering team from 25 to 1,000.
- Cove · Co-founder
Before Dropbox; dates not disclosed · Cove was building modern collaboration software.
- Facebook · Early engineer; later first Director of Product Engineering
Before Cove; dates not disclosed · The firm says he helped build early Search, News Feed and Messenger, then oversaw engineering for News Feed, Profile, Groups and Events.
Education
- Carnegie Mellon University
Bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science
Public record
- South Park Commons says he scaled Dropbox’s engineering team from 25 to 1,000 and helped build early Facebook products.
- The firm says he served on the boards of Flipkart, Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science and the Anita Borg Institute, and advises Silicon Valley startups.
Sources
- 1. South Park Commons India
Ruchi Sanghvi Founder and General Partner. Aditya Agarwal General Partner. Prateek Mehta General Partner.
- 2. Aditya Agarwal — Team · South Park Commons
Aditya Agarwal is a General Partner based in San Francisco. He was the CTO and VP of Engineering at Dropbox where he scaled the engineering team from 25 to 1000. Before Dropbox, Aditya co-founded Cove—a company that was building modern collaboration software. Prior to Cove, Aditya was one of Facebook’s first engineers. He helped build the first versions of key products like Search, NewsFeed and Messenger.
- 3. Aditya Agarwal — Team · South Park Commons
Aditya served on the boards of FlipKart—India’s leading e-commerce company, Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science, and the Anita Borg Institute. He is also an active investor and advisor to Silicon Valley startups. Aditya holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.