Rushikesh Chavan

Product Manager

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India6 yrs 9 mos experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Built a clinical metadata repository reducing insights time by 40%.
  • Engineered real-time data pipelines handling over 2M records daily.
  • Optimized cloud costs by ~20% through strategic architecture.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering expert specializing in real-time data systems and cloud architecture.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringCloud ArchitectureGraph Database ManagementReal-time Data ProcessingSoftware Engineering

Other Skills

.NET CoreASP.NET CoreASP.NET MVCASP.NET Web APIAWSAWS GlueAWS IoTAWS LambdaAWS SageMakerAmazon BedrockAmazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)Amazon KinesisAmazon RedshiftAmazon S3Amazon Web Services (AWS)

About

I build fast, intelligent data systems that scale. As a Graph & Real-Time Data Systems Engineer & Consultant, I help companies solve their toughest pipeline and architecture challenges using Neo4j, Kafka, PySpark, AWS and GCP. With over 6 years of hands-on experience, I've worked with Fortune 500 clients and high-growth startups to reduce latency, streamline data workflows, and build resilient, production-grade systems. What I've Delivered 1. 40% faster insights by building a clinical metadata repository with Neo4j + PySpark 2. 45% fewer incidents via a real-time access control engine using graph entitlements 3. 2M+ records/day pipelines engineered with Kafka, PySpark, and Databricks at CRISIL 4. ~20% cost savings through compute optimization on GCP Dataproc & Snowflake How I Can Help You If you're facing any of these: 1. Data pipelines that break under scale or slow down insights 2. Neo4j queries that need serious tuning 3. Kafka/Spark jobs that cost too much or deliver too little 4. Complex entitlement logic your team keeps duct-taping together I can audit, optimize, or completely re-architect your platform for performance, cost, and future-proofing. Services Offered 1. Architecture Audits (Graph + Real-Time Systems) 2. System Optimization & Refactoring 3. Hands-on Implementation & Team Guidance 4. Fractional Tech Leadership & Advisory Open to consulting gigs, part-time advisory, and technical audits. Let’s connect — my first discovery call is free. rushic6@gmail.com

Experience

Otto car

Data Engineering Lead

Jul 2025Present · 8 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

  • Lead the architecture and delivery of a real-time, graph-integrated cloud data platform on Databricks + AWS, powering mobility operations and predictive analytics.
  • Architected unified Lakehouse using Amazon S3, Delta Lake, and Databricks SQL—combining structured, time-series, and graph data to support 30+ business dashboards.
  • Designed streaming pipelines with AWS Kinesis, Kafka (MSK), and Databricks Structured Streaming—reducing event latency by 70% across 2M+ daily IoT events.
  • Integrated Neo4j-based relationship models with telemetry & driver data for route optimization and anomaly detection.
  • Developed predictive pipelines in Databricks ML & SageMaker—improving driver performance scoring and vehicle maintenance prediction accuracy by 25%.
  • Instituted enterprise data governance using Unity Catalog, IAM, and Lake Formation to ensure lineage, access control, and compliance.
  • Partnered with BI and Ops teams to enable real-time decisioning and executive dashboards, accelerating reporting cycles by 3×.
DatabricksAWSNeo4jKinesisKafkaDelta Lake+3

Harman international

Technical Lead - Data Engineering | Graph Database Specialist

Jul 2024Jul 2025 · 1 yr · Maharashtra, India · Hybrid

  • Built Master Data Repository for clinical trial data using Neo4j and PySpark; reduced data prep time by 40%.
  • Queried and optimized 4M+ nodes in Neo4j with advanced Cypher.
  • Integrated Snowflake with Snowpipe & RBAC for secure analytics; enabled 60% more self-service access.
  • Developed resilient pipelines supporting dynamic metadata classification.
  • Enabled query federation across Neo4j and Snowflake for streamlined analytics.
Neo4jPySparkSnowflakeRBACDynamic Metadata ClassificationData Engineering+1

Crisil global research & risk solutions

2 roles

Senior Data Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Engineered real-time pipelines for 2M+ daily records using Kafka, PySpark, and Databricks.
  • Designed graph-based recommendation systems using Neo4j.
  • Reduced MTTR by 35% via ELK observability stack.
  • Led GCP Dataproc databricks querying with partner Raymond James, reducing compute cost by ~20%
KafkaPySparkDatabricksNeo4jELKData Engineering+1

Data Engineer

Dec 2021Mar 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Responsible for data scraping, data cleansing, data-models designing, and data storage.
  • Involved in multiple POC’s & migrations as a key resource (solutions built using Python, Neo4j, SQL, Kafka).
  • Working collaboratively with the Onsite and offshore clients and team.
  • Client: Raymond James
PythonNeo4jSQLKafkaData Engineering

Gep worldwide

2 roles

Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2020Dec 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Designed microservices for document access control using Neo4j, Kafka, and .NET Core.
  • Built pipelines syncing enterprise procurement data across environments.
  • Developed ELK dashboards improving transparency for clients like Chevron and BOFA.
Neo4jKafka.NET CoreELKSoftware Engineering

Associate Software Engineer

Jul 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Implemented production environment cloud infrastructure for NoSql Search Database (Elasticsearch) | Implemented dashboards for analysed search data
ElasticsearchSoftware Engineering

Uber mumbai

Intern - Operations Consultant

Jun 2016Aug 2016 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India · On-site

  • 1. Helped the team with operations management process optimization
  • 2. Developed the ticketing application using Java as the backend
Java

Education

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — Computer Engineering

Jan 2016Jan 2019

Pillai College of Engineering

Diploma in Computer Engineering — Computer Engineering

Jan 2013Jan 2016

Chembur Karnataka High School

SSC — Secondary school Education

Jan 2013Jan 2014

Stackforce found 100+ more professionals with Data Engineering & Cloud Architecture

Explore similar profiles based on matching skills and experience