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Aditya Agarwal

VP of Engineering at PubMatic

Aditya Agarwal is known for leading the engineering behind PubMatic's OpenWrap header bidding wrapper and server-side bidding architecture, contributing open-source tooling that has shaped how publishers manage programmatic auctions at scale.

OperatorRedwood City, California, United States15+ years in industry

Last updated Jun 11, 2026 by ATDb automated enrichment

Bio

Aditya Agarwal is recognized in the AdTech engineering community for his leadership of PubMatic's core bidding infrastructure, including the development and scaling of OpenWrap, PubMatic's header bidding wrapper solution that has become a widely adopted tool among publishers seeking unified auction management. His technical work spans server-side bidding architecture, real-time bidding systems, and exchange infrastructure designed to operate at massive scale across billions of daily ad transactions. At PubMatic, Agarwal has been instrumental in evolving the company's programmatic stack to meet the demands of a cookieless, privacy-first advertising landscape, contributing to open-source tooling that has influenced how publishers and SSPs approach header bidding standardization. His engineering teams have focused on latency optimization, auction efficiency, and interoperability across the programmatic supply chain. With a career rooted in large-scale distributed systems and applied to the specific demands of real-time advertising, Agarwal represents the operator class of AdTech leaders whose impact is felt through the infrastructure that underpins modern programmatic buying and selling rather than through public-facing advocacy alone.

Previous Roles

Senior Director of Engineering

PubMatic (prior to VP role)

Engineering Leadership

PubMatic (2013-present)

Expertise
Header BiddingOpenWrapServer-Side BiddingReal-Time Bidding (RTB)Programmatic AdvertisingAd Exchange InfrastructureDistributed Systems at ScaleSupply-Side Platform (SSP) Technology
Education
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering (specific institution not publicly confirmed)
Notable Achievements
  • Led engineering development of OpenWrap, PubMatic's open-source header bidding wrapper adopted by publishers globally
  • Scaled PubMatic's real-time bidding infrastructure to support billions of daily ad transactions
  • Contributed to open-source programmatic tooling that influenced industry standards for header bidding wrappers
Speaking Topics
Server-Side Header Bidding ArchitectureOpen-Source Programmatic ToolingReal-Time Bidding at ScalePublisher Monetization Infrastructure