Rishabh Raj

Backend Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India12 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led data infrastructure development at multiple startups.
Expert in problem-solving and system design.
Mentored many individuals in tech and data.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Data Engineering Leader with extensive experience in SaaS and non-profit sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringData Architecture

Other Skills

Design ThinkingAlgorithmsData StructuresPythonProgrammingC++CPHPBashDockerJavaLinuxMySQLLaTeXOpenGL

About

If you have a data problem, it is highly likely I can help you! I have a core computer science background from undergrad and ended up at an early-stage startup in the data space out of curiosity. We were 5 full-time folks then. This is where I spent the next 6 years and helped setup and lead the building of the data infrastructure at the company and more Naturally, as a member of the founding team, there was a lot of ownership to take and lessons to be learnt all across the data stack - people, process and tools I love problem solving and system design and meaningful automation to get real value out of data Outside of tech and data I have closely mentored many people which is another thing I intrinsically enjoy Not a fan of job titles :)

Experience

12 yrs

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Giga, unicef

Principal Data Engineer

Dec 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 5 mos · Remote

Helping define and design the Giga Data Platform
Work here starts right from identifying the correct problem to bringing in the right tools and best practices to help the team work efficiently
Giga is a global initiative to connect every school to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice
https://giga.global/

Data ArchitectureDesign ThinkingData Engineering

Career break

Health and well-being

Jul 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

The phase of the second wave in India of the Covid pandemic ended up being the stimuli that opened the pandora's box that to my surprise at that point my mind and body was not ready to handle and I realized it was time to slow down and examine
I like the concept of antifragility
Looking forward to a more whole version of myself
Update: February 2023
Taking a break was the best thing to do at that point. I was bored and tired
By the end of 2022 it seemed like the reset was complete
Back in the game now! Lets play

Atlan

Principal Engineer

Jan 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Remote

Started and led the data platform engineering team
I look at it as a continuation of the journey from SocialCops even though the companies are very different
Atlan is a modern data workspace which aims to enable better collaboration between a diverse set of users from stewards to analytics and engineers — to help cater higher efficiency and agility in data projects.
With the platform now providing absolute control of workflows in the hands of the user and users being outside our own data team - this was a journey of developing and managing the data infrastructure running complex data pipelines and auto-tuning query clusters and self-pruning data lakes and later on problems around active metadata like the quality of the data catalog and the dirty problem of cross tool data lineage
It was fun!

Socialcops

Founding Engineer

Jun 2015 – Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

Love for startups and cool problems led me here after my undergrad
We built a lot of nifty data tooling to help the in-house data team deliver projects such as the National Data Platform, powered monitoring for UN SDGs, the Ujjwala program in India and several other projects with the UN, World Bank, Tata Trusts and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Led the effort on Camelot, a PDF parsing library we open sourced in 2018
It trended on Github and HackerNews globally for a week, shot to 3000+ stars on Github (not the right metric to evaluate an OSS effort) but it clearly validated the core use case
Back then, the term "data engineering" was barely a part of the zeitgeist although as I write this in 2022, most of the work we did would fit under that umbrella
Insight and experience from this time led to the birth of Atlan down the road!

Virginia tech

Visiting Scholar

May 2014 – Jul 2014 · 2 mos

Worked on designing and developing a platform for semi-supervised discovery of attributes in datasets.

Google

2 roles

Student Developer - Python Software Foundation

Jan 2014 – Aug 2014 · 7 mos · Google Summer of Code

Worked with scikit-image, the image processing library for Python, to develop a remote, sandboxed code execution framework that is used to make the gallery of examples, fully interactive.

Student Developer, MoinMoin Wiki Engine

May 2013 – Aug 2013 · 3 mos

Worked with MoinMoin wiki. MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine.
For details on MoinMoin - http://moinmo.in/

Iiit hyderabad

2 roles

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Jan 2014 – May 2014 · 4 mos

TA for the Graphics Course - Sophomore Year

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Aug 2013 – Dec 2013 · 4 mos

TA for the IT Workshop Course - Freshman Year

Curatio technologies

Internship

Dec 2012 – Jan 2013 · 1 mo

Implemented a search solution using Apache Solr in the backend for fast retrieval from
indexed data. (similar being used by Flipkart / Zomato for their search queries)