Engineer · MBA · Investor · Builder

Shaleen Agrawal

I work at the intersection of silicon, software, and strategy — translating deep technical systems into decisions about products, markets, and capital allocation.

Kellogg MBA Qualcomm alum Incoming BCG Summer Consultant AI infrastructure & semiconductors

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Technical depth, commercial lens.Former senior software engineer now focused on strategy, venture, and frontier compute.

Point of view

Built for the messy middle.

The most interesting technology questions are rarely purely technical or purely strategic. They live in the middle: where an engineering constraint becomes a market wedge, a product decision, or an investment thesis.

Systems thinker

Six years inside Qualcomm taught me how hardware, software, performance, power, and customer requirements collide in real products.

Commercial operator

At Kellogg and through venture work, I focus on how technical advantage becomes go-to-market advantage, customer pull, and defensible value capture.

Founder-minded

I am drawn to builders tackling non-obvious infrastructure problems in AI, semiconductors, robotics, and edge computing.

Experience

Where I have worked.

A chronological view of the roles and projects that shaped how I think about technology, strategy, and building.

Summer 2026Austin, TX

Incoming Summer Consultant · Boston Consulting Group

Technology, strategy, and TMT-oriented work

Joining BCG as a Summer Consultant, with a focus on bringing engineering credibility to strategy problems in technology-heavy markets.

Spring 2026Chicago, IL

MBA Associate Intern · Private Early-Stage Venture Fund

AI infrastructure, robotics, world models, and semiconductors

Supporting investment research and founder diligence for an early-stage venture fund. Work includes market mapping, technical diligence, founder conversations, and thesis development across frontier compute categories.

2025 – 2027Evanston, IL

MBA Candidate · Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University

Candidate for MBA, intended major in Operations. Founder of Kellogg Whisk Management Club, VP of Student Affairs at Kellogg Student Association, and active in Kellogg Consulting Club and KTech.

2019 – 2025San Diego, CA

Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineer · Qualcomm

Systems software, performance optimization, kernel-adjacent work, and global OEM partnerships

Built and optimized software for Snapdragon platforms across six chipset generations. Presented technical advantages to executive stakeholders, partnered across Android, performance, power, memory, and virtualization teams, and mentored interns into full-time engineering careers.

Summer 2017Houston, TX

Digital Technology Leadership Program Intern · General Electric Oil & Gas

Automation, SQL, AWS access reviews, and enterprise software release management

Developed SQL automation for AWS EC2 entitlement reviews, saving 500+ hours annually. Helped move an IMax functionality release from requirements to stable release in under four weeks versus a ten-week plan, and onboarded company-wide applications to automate recurring access review workflows.

2015 – 2019Urbana, IL

B.S. Computer Engineering · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Graduated with honors

Built the technical foundation that led into systems software, semiconductors, and performance-critical engineering work.

$2.5Bestimated revenue uplift from Samsung flagship chipset adoption

342%benchmark improvement across Snapdragon generations

55%power reduction from system-level enhancements

500+hours saved yearly through GE automation work

Philanthropy & Community

Building beyond the job description.

I care about the institutions and communities that create access: student teams, early-career networks, engineering education, and local organizations doing hard work on the ground.

SystemsGo · 2025–Present

Helping high school students launch rockets

Volunteer mentor for SystemsGo, supporting high school students as they prepare, test, and launch rockets. The work combines engineering judgment with hands-on coaching: helping students reason through safety, wiring, altimeters, flight readiness, and real-world failure modes.

STEM educationRocket launchesHands-on mentorship

Shaleen mentoring students during SystemsGo rocket preparation

SystemsGo student rocket team in the launch field

Shaleen with a student and rocket at SystemsGo

Shaleen reviewing rocket components with students

UIUC Lab High School · 2023–Present

Alumni Board Member

Board member for the University of Illinois Laboratory High School Alumni Association, helping strengthen alumni connections and support the long-term sustainability of the school community.

Alumni engagementEducationBoard service

University of Illinois Laboratory High School Alumni Board

Qualcomm · 2024

Social Initiative Giving Committee

Helped direct employee-driven philanthropy toward youth homelessness and food insecurity, including fundraising $100,000 and supporting 14,000+ meals for underserved communities in Culver City.

$100K fundraised14,000+ meals sponsoredYouth homelessness

Qualcomm · 2022–2025

New Graduates Board

Served as VP of Qualcomm's New Graduates Board, leading cross-functional teams across finance, marketing, and administration to organize 50+ events for 2,000+ members and strengthen retention for entry-level employees.

50+ events2,000+ membersEarly-career community

Qualcomm · 2023–2025

Equality Board & San Diego Pride

Supported LGBTQ+ advocacy and community programming as Secretary of Qualcomm's Equality Board, helping organize participation in San Diego Pride and contributing to recognition including the Stonewall Philanthropy Award.

LGBTQ+ advocacySan Diego PrideStonewall Philanthropy Award

Qualcomm Equality Board at San Diego Pride Parade

Stonewall Philanthropy Award recognition

Background

The story behind the resume.

A technical foundation, a strategy lens, and a bias toward hard problems at the edge of computing.

I grew up across India, France, and Illinois. That shaped how I think: same facts, different frames, different conclusions.

I started in computer engineering and spent six years at Qualcomm, where I learned what it takes to ship software into high-stakes silicon platforms used by billions of people. That experience gave me a practical respect for constraints: performance, power, reliability, customer timelines, and the unforgiving physics underneath every strategy deck.

At Kellogg, I am pairing that technical base with strategy, operations, entrepreneurship, and investing. I am especially interested in AI infrastructure, semiconductors, robotics, edge computing, and the companies that turn deep technical insight into durable commercial advantage.

Outside work, I like building communities, mentoring technical talent, traveling, scuba diving, cruising, and finding ways to make complex ideas easier to understand.

Snapshot

CurrentKellogg MBA
Evanston, IL

NextBCG Summer Consultant
Austin, TX

PreviouslyQualcomm
San Diego, CA

TechnicalC/C++ · Python
Linux · SQL

LanguagesEnglish · Hindi
French

FocusAI infra · semis
robotics · strategy

Writing

A few things I am thinking about.

Kept tight on purpose. No giant thesis/market-map section. This can become real writing later, but it should not overpower the site before the pieces exist.

AI Infrastructure

Interested in frontier compute, venture, or strategy?

I am always happy to compare notes with founders, investors, engineers, operators, and classmates working on hard technology problems.

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