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title: "Chirag Prajapat - SDE 2 in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Chirag Prajapat, Software Engineer @ Mercedes-Benz R&D | Java • Spring Boot • Kafka | Distributed Systems based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, claude, and github copilot."
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# Chirag Prajapat on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer @ Mercedes\-Benz R&D \| Java • Spring Boot • Kafka \| Distributed Systems

## About

Backend Software Engineer with 3\+ years of experience building and optimizing Java/Spring Boot microservices\. Skilled in API architecture, database efficiency, and distributed systems, with a proven track record of improving service reliability and performance\. Known for strong problem\- solving, system ownership, and delivering robust backend solutions, with additional experience in CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes, and GenAI techniques like RAG and embeddings\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

claude

github copilot

ollama

openai

huggingface

## Work experience

SDE 2 at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited, Jul 2026 \- Present · 2 mo, Bengaluru

Software Consultant at Mercedes\-Benz Research and Development India, Aug 2022 \- Jun 2026 · 3 y 10 mo, Hybrid

Graduate Engineer Trainee at Mercedes\-Benz Research and Development India, Aug 2022 \- Apr 2023 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Corp Systems Intern at KAS Services India Pvt Ltd, Jan 2022 \- Jul 2022 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

AI Researcher at Alpha AI, Jun 2021 \- Sep 2021 · 4 mos, Remote, Roles and responsibilities: • Machine learning model\(s\) and/or information extraction rules to extract data with specified outcome labels\. • Code for model training and evaluation • Training datasets with curated labels used for model training\. • Code for wrapper functions needed to extract and store data in a structured format\. • Data tables or database with extracted values from a specified list of study abstracts • Data representation in the form of lucrative dashboards

Data Science Intern at mUniCampus, Jan 2021 \- Jul 2021 · 7 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, My key roles in the internship were: • To design and develop data analytics application \(Machine Learning/Deep Learning/NLP\) using Python – stack\. • To work on ETL, web scraping and exploratory data analysis\. • To work on highly scalable fully automated programs created by using Python\. • To create and configure cloud servers to deploy the developed applications\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Information Technology, Christ University, Bangalore

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