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title: "Avinash Baghel - Engineering Manager in Bengaluru, Karnataka | Tal"
description: "Meet Avinash Baghel, Data Engineering @ PayNearby | Building Scalable Data Platforms based in Bengaluru, Karnataka. AI stack includes antigravity, claude, and deepseek."
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# Avinash Baghel on Tal

## Headline

Data Engineering @ PayNearby \| Building Scalable Data Platforms

## About

I am an engineering leader with over a decade of experience in building scalable data platforms and high\-performance engineering teams\. My expertise lies in architecting real\-time data pipelines, optimizing infrastructure costs, and integrating AI/ML solutions to accelerate development lifecycles\. I have a proven track record of reducing latency for large\-scale, user\-facing analytics and delivering significant operational efficiencies\. I am passionate about leveraging cutting\-edge technology to solve complex data challenges that drive business impact and innovation\.

## Location

Bengaluru, Karnataka

## AI stack

antigravity

claude

deepseek

gemini

geminicli

langgraph

## Work experience

Engineering Manager at PayNearby, Mar 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Remote, Leading for Data, Observability & AI \- Spearheading initiatives to build and implement cutting\-edge AI and Machine Learning solutions\. \- Architecting in\-house AI tools that directly accelerate the development lifecycle and boost engineering efficiency\. \- Integrating AI\-powered assistance and features into applications to enhance user experience and capabilities\. \- Implementing ELK ML Solutions to deliver predictive insights and dynamic monitoring across systems\.

Lead Data Engineer at PayNearby, Nov 2021 \- Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \- Building the next\-generation platform to handle scale and reduce development efforts \- Spearheaded cost optimization initiatives, achieving a 30% reduction in expenses across the organization\. \- Internal Service to ingest Request/Response of upstream services for Auditing, Monitoring\. \- Design and Implemented a solution to serve static content from S3 using Nginx as a reverse proxy handling 120K at peak with \~<5ms response time, handled NoCache scenario when serving PII Data \- Designed and Developed a platform to power real\-time user\-facing analytics using Apache Pinot and Trino as Gateway Languages: Python, Java, njs

Senior Data Engineer at PayNearby, Apr 2021 \- Oct 2021 · 7 mos, Remote, Data Platform \- Laid the foundation of the Data Team and set up a team of 7 engineers \- Architected and implemented an In\-house Data Platform from scratch \- Designed and developed real\-time Data Pipelines using Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Apache Airflow, and Apache Spark \- Streamlined central data discovery and data query by implementing Data Hub \- Optimised Queries on BigQuery to ensure low latency and reduced cost by 30%\. \- Transitioned from a proprietary enterprise BI tool to an open\-source BI solution\. Built service to server data at low latency \- Handling peak 100k requests/second with sub\-10ms latency\. \- Implemented a no\-code solution for importing data from various sources directly into Cassandra\.

Senior Data Engineer at Ezetap Mobile Solutions Pvt\. Ltd, Aug 2018 \- Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, In\-house Data\-Platform to ingest data from various data sources to Dataware\-house\. \- Minimised time by 80% in serving data to Business Customers for reporting and Analytical needs\. \- Brought down avg query latency and streamlined day\-2\-day reporting needs Built framework and transformed data to address the geo\-analytics needs of organizations\. \- Provided better insights into the organization\. \- Catered to reporting, analytics, alerting and ML needs\. \- Migrated from an enterprise's BI Tool to a self\-hosted Open Source BI tool Designed and Implemented the Notification As A Service \- Improved TAT on developing applications and reducing complexity across the organization

Senior Software Engineer at thinkAPPS Solutions Private Limited, Aug 2017 \- Jul 2018 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Developed MicroServices and integrated legacy SOAP endpoints \- Did seamless transition from monolith to microservices\. \- Utility service to run batch operations, reduced processing time by 50%\.

Software Developer at Vedant Tech Solutions, Oct 2014 \- Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos, Bangalore, India, Developed VTS Core CSS library on Bootstrap Library \- Streamlined UI and UX across products\. Migrated a legacy web application from Jsp to Angular\.

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bhilai institute of technology

Science, Kps, Bhilai

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