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Parag Agrawal is an Indian-American technology executive born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India. His father was a senior official in India’s Department of Atomic Energy while his mother was a school teacher.
Agrawal attended the Atomic Energy Central School No. 4. in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Here are 13 more things about him:
- He and his wife Vineeta Agrawal have a son together.
- In 2000, he ranked 77th in the Joint Entrance Exam, an annual academic examination in India.
- In 2001, he won a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad in Turkey.
- In 2005, he graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Powai, Mumbai with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering.
- From 2005 to 2012, he attended Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States where he earned his PhD in computer science.
- From June 2006 to September 2006, he worked for Microsoft as a researcher.
- From June 2007 to September 2008, he worked for Yahoo! as a researcher.
- From June 2009 to September 2009, he worked for Microsoft again as a researcher.
- From June 2010 to September 2010, he worked for AT&T Labs, Inc. as a researcher.
- In October 2011, he joined Twitter as a software engineer.
- In October 2017, he became the chief technology officer of Twitter after the departure of Adam Massinger.
- In December 2019, then Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey announced that he would be in charge of an independent team of open source architects, engineers and designers called Project Bluesky.
- He was 37 years old when Dorsey resigned from Twitter on November 29, 2021 and announced that he would be the new CEO of the company.
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