Pratik Agarwal is a founding engineer on Figma’s Sandbox Platform within the Agent Infrastructure team, where he builds safe, reliable compute infrastructure for AI-powered product experiences. Earlier at Figma, he worked on database and caching infrastructure. Before joining Figma, he built caching and control-plane infrastructure at Momento and worked on DynamoDB’s control plane and event-driven systems for AWS Marketplace at AWS. He holds an M.S. in Information Science from Penn State, where his graduate research focused on HCI and social computing. His work sits at the intersection of distributed systems, reliability, and ergonomics, and he writes about infrastructure, performance, and developer experience.