Open to full-time software engineering & AI roles · May 2026

Software engineer · Product systems · Applied AI

I’m Vibhor Agarwal, a software engineer with 3+ years of experience turning complex product and AI problems into measurable outcomes.

State College, PA3+ years across product, platform, and AI
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Product EngineeringEmbodied AIFull-Stack SystemsHuman-Centered SoftwareProduct EngineeringEmbodied AIFull-Stack SystemsHuman-Centered Software

01 / About

From production software to applied AI.

I work across the stack, from React interfaces and Java services to data pipelines and LLM-powered agents. I care about clear product thinking, dependable systems, and outcomes that can be measured.

At Redfin, I shipped features that improved user engagement by up to 76%. At SE Aircon, I modernized customer and internal workflows. Today, I’m completing an M.S. in Computer Science at Penn State and researching agents that can plan, recover, and execute complex tasks reliably.

Technologies I work with

PythonC/C++SwiftJavaTypeScriptSQLPyTorchHugging FaceTransformersRAGvLLMReact.jsNode.jsREST APIsAPI DesignPostgresDockerKubernetesGrafanaLinux

02 / Experience

Experience with visible outcomes.

A track record of shipping, improving reliability, and helping users succeed.

Mar 2025 — PresentUniversity Park, PA

Graduate Research Assistant @ Penn State University

Engineering and evaluating NLP/GenAI agent systems for reliable long-horizon reasoning.

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Selected impact

  • Compare reasoning policies across OpenAI, Gemini, Hugging Face, vLLM, and instruction-tuned model backends.
  • Design structured pipelines with prompting, schema validation, retrieval context, recovery logic, and debugging traces.
  • Build evaluation workflows for task success, invalid actions, latency, token usage, and model behavior across runs.
PythonOpenAIGeminiHugging FacevLLMRAG
Aug 2024 — May 2026University Park, PA

Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Penn State University

Delivered lectures, labs, and mentoring in Python and core computer science to 400+ students.

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Selected impact

  • Improved assignment submission rates and conceptual clarity through structured lectures, labs, and applied examples.
  • Led weekly office hours and review sessions with one-on-one guidance in Python, data structures, and algorithms.
PythonAlgorithmsMentorship
Mar 2023 — Aug 2024Delhi, India

Software Developer @ SE Aircon

Built customer and internal workflows that increased inquiries by 30% and improved operational clarity.

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Selected impact

  • Built responsive React customer workflows with reusable UI components, improving navigation and conversion.
  • Automated invoicing and reporting with API-driven validation, processing, and business data handling.
  • Designed internal web tools for inventory, client, and project management.
ReactNode.jsREST APIsBusiness Automation
Feb 2022 — Dec 2022Seattle, WA

Software Developer @ Redfin

Shipped high-impact consumer search experiences, increasing key registration and conversion metrics.

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Selected impact

  • Built a collaborative search dialog in React, increasing registrations and shared searches by 76%.
  • Shipped Save Search Nudge through tested UI iterations and A/B analysis, improving conversion by 13%.
  • Developed Grafana dashboards for feature health, login flows, user behavior, and regression detection.
  • Partnered with product, design, data, and backend teams to debug releases, APIs, and edge cases.
ReactJavaA/B TestingGrafanaAPI Debugging
Aug 2021 — Feb 2022State College, PA

Quality Assurance Engineer @ KCF Technologies

Improved product reliability for a large-scale machine health platform across UI, API, and data workflows.

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Selected impact

  • Executed functional, regression, integration, and API testing, identifying 200+ critical defects.
  • Designed manual test plans and automated test scripts that reduced post-deployment issues by 30%.
  • Led root-cause analysis of API-level, data-flow, and client-server issues to improve backend readiness.
API TestingTest AutomationRoot-Cause AnalysisJIRA

03 / Selected work

Selected systems and products.

Five projects chosen to show range across AI, product engineering, data, and systems.

01

Towards Cognitive Embodied Agents

An evaluated agent workflow using ReAct, schema validation, retrieval context, and recovery policies, reaching 70.8% task completion.

PythonReActOpenAIGeminivLLM
02

ChewRate

An iOS motion-sensing system using Swift and AirPods Pro IMU data to detect bites and chews from head-motion patterns.

SwiftiOSPythonSignal ProcessingML
03

Flight Delay Prediction

Forecasts flight delays from ten years of transportation and weather data through scalable preprocessing and an interactive dashboard.

PythonPandasPySpark
04

TheNutriStory

A production wellness platform that presents services, builds client trust, and converts visitors into consultation bookings.

Next.jsSupabaseTailwind CSS
05

Dynamic Storage Allocator

Implements malloc, free, and realloc with segregated free lists, coalescing, and a heap consistency checker.

CMemory ManagementSystems

04 / Research

Researching dependable AI agents.

Work focused on planning, memory, recovery, and language-grounded action.

Master’s Thesis · 2026

Towards Cognitive Embodied Agents: Reliability and Efficiency in Long-Horizon Task Execution

Penn State University

Manuscript · CogSci 2026

Modular Reasoning Scaffold: A Unified Neuro-Symbolic Framework for an Instruction-Following Embodied Agent

Co-author · Manuscript submitted

Manuscript · AAAI 2026

Explainable Instruction-Following with a Unified Neuro-Symbolic Embodied Agent Architecture

Co-author · Manuscript submitted

05 / Education

A strong foundation, then specialization.

2024 — 2026 · GPA 3.91

Master of Science, Computer Science and Engineering

Penn State University

Thesis
Towards Cognitive Embodied Agents: Reliability and Efficiency in Long-Horizon Task Execution
Focus
NLP, GenAI agents, evaluation, retrieval, recovery, and long-horizon reasoning
Digital diploma · Issued May 2026Credential ID 26KV-3ITN-V5LV
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2017 — 2021 · GPA 3.81

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Penn State University · Cum Laude

Minor
Mathematics
Focus
Software engineering, algorithms, data structures, operating systems, and computer architecture
Digital diploma · Issued May 2021Credential ID 211E-3UEL-VAL2
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Resume

Experience at a glance.

Review my complete work history, technical skills, education, research, and measurable outcomes.

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06 / Contact

Looking for an engineer who can own the problem?

I’m open to full-time software engineering and applied AI roles starting May 2026. Let’s talk about the product, platform, or intelligent system your team is building.

info@vibhoragarwal.dev