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Then: In 2005, Mr. Agarwal left his position as a software engineer at Oracle to work as a tech lead for Zuck as one of his earliest employees. Two years later, he was promoted to Director of Engineering. Mr. Agarwal worked on a range of vital products, including Newsfeed, search, ads, and user commerce, as well as services infrastructure, before departing after five and half years in 2010.



Now: Mr. Agarwal, who was invited to AngelList by his wife Ms. Sanghvi (awww), has been keeping himself busy as an active advisor with investments in startups from former Facebookers like Path and Asana, as well as Y Combinator alum Dropbox, Kima Labs, Ron Conway's SV Angel, and Milo. Last weekend, Groupon acquired Kima for an undisclosed sum. Along with the announcement came the news that, Kima's products (a mobile barcode reading app called Barcode Hero and a mobile payment app called TapBuy) will both be wound down. UPDATE: Cove was acquired by Dropbox.



Just because he's left the building doesn't mean Mr. Argarwal isn't keeping an eye on the product! "Why doesn't the typeahead index FB messages?" he asked his 2,646 Facebook subscribers earlier this month in a publicly visible post on his Timeline. "That's a lot of indexed data to store in-memory for typeahead purposes, no?," friend who works in product design at Facebook replied. "Yea, but FB has a lot of servers, no?" Mr. Agarwal countered. Considering Facebook spent $606 million on servers and the like in 2011, we think that constitutes a nerd burn.



(Photo: VolkanRivera.com)

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Then: In 2005, Mr. Agarwal left his position as a software engineer at Oracle to work as a tech lead for Zuck as one of his earliest employees. Two years later, he was promoted to Director of Engineering. Mr. Agarwal worked on a range of vital products, including Newsfeed, search, ads, and user commerce, as well as services infrastructure, before departing after five and half years in 2010.



Now: Mr. Agarwal, who was invited to AngelList by his wife Ms. Sanghvi (awww), has been keeping himself busy as an active advisor with investments in startups from former Facebookers like Path and Asana, as well as Y Combinator alum Dropbox, Kima Labs, Ron Conway's SV Angel, and Milo. Last weekend, Groupon acquired Kima for an undisclosed sum. Along with the announcement came the news that, Kima's products (a mobile barcode reading app called Barcode Hero and a mobile payment app called TapBuy) will both be wound down. UPDATE: Cove was acquired by Dropbox.



Just because he's left the building doesn't mean Mr. Argarwal isn't keeping an eye on the product! "Why doesn't the typeahead index FB messages?" he asked his 2,646 Facebook subscribers earlier this month in a publicly visible post on his Timeline. "That's a lot of indexed data to store in-memory for typeahead purposes, no?," friend who works in product design at Facebook replied. "Yea, but FB has a lot of servers, no?" Mr. Agarwal countered. Considering Facebook spent $606 million on servers and the like in 2011, we think that constitutes a nerd burn.



(Photo: VolkanRivera.com)

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