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Piyush Agrawal

Technology and the occasional deep dive.

01. About

Technical program leader with 18 years of experience standing up and scaling high-stakes initiatives at Amazon, NortonLifeLock, and startups — from founding a zero-to-one logistics platform to driving $1.6B eCommerce operations. Outside work, I chase light with a camera, write about things that catch my interest, and tinker with home infrastructure.

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02. Writing

  • A routine unsubscribe click triggered a browser warning. The investigation that followed uncovered CNAME cloaking, cross-site cookies set without notice, and a tracking architecture undetected by standard browser protections and consent tools.

    12 min read#Cybersecurity#Privacy#Data Privacy#CNAME Cloaking
  • AI systems inherit bias from their training data and reflect the blind spots of whoever built them. The teams building AI are getting more homogeneous at exactly the moment diversity matters most.

    7 min read#AI Bias#Diversity in Tech#DEI#Algorithmic Fairness#AI Ethics#Responsible AI
  • Large language models don't think or know anything. They predict the next word based on statistical patterns learned from trillions of words of human text, inheriting every bias embedded in that data.

    7 min read#Large Language Models#How AI Works#AI Bias#Machine Learning#AI Explainer#ChatGPT

03. Experience

  • Amazon

    Sr. Technical Program Manager | Alexa+ · AI/LLM at Scale
    APR 2021JAN 2026
  • NortonLifeLock

    Principal Program Manager, eCommerce
    OCT 2018MAR 2021
  • Essel Group (Zee5)

    Technology Manager
    MAY 2017SEP 2018