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# Darpan Raj on Tal

## Headline

Data Engineer II @ Best Buy India

## About

Persistent Systems drives innovative solutions for a multi\-billion\-dollar Indian retail client, focusing on cloud migration, chargeback processes, and cost\-visibility dashboards using GCP tools\. The team also contributed to migrating on\-prem Oracle databases to GCP Postgres, optimizing data accessibility and operational workflows\. Building on a strong academic foundation from BNM Institute of Technology, the work emphasizes cloud\-native architecture, PySpark orchestration, and collaborative problem\-solving\. With a motivation to deliver scalable, data\-driven solutions, the focus remains on empowering organizations to achieve strategic outcomes through advanced cloud technologies\.

## Location

Bangalore Urban

## AI stack

claude code

claude

metaai

openai

## Work experience

Software Engineer II \(Data\) at Best Buy™ India, Oct 2025 \- Present · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Software Engineer at Persistent Systems, Jun 2022 \- Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\. Currently analyzing and implementing chargeback processes along with dashboards, and alerting of Data Platform for cost\-visibility of a retail client using GCP tools\. 2\. Building project architecture for a Multi\-billion dollar Indian Retail client involving migration from AWS to Google Cloud & Completed all the Pilot use cases scenario for the migration of Data Platform\. 3\. Worked on Database migration from On\-prem Oracle to GCP Postgres including DDL, DML and Data Migration\. 4\. Worked on Orchestrating PySpark jobs from DataProc in Cloud Composer\.

Junior Programming Analyst at Pluto7, Sep 2020 \- May 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 1\. Exploring GCP’s Data Warehousing tools, ML tools mainly related to Audio, text, and document for an online computer adaptive test company 2\. Using Visualization tools like Looker and Data Studio for creating insightful dashboards 3\. Built end\-to\-end Projects Architecture, with Data Model and solution for a retail client 4\. Transferring Big Data from different sources \(cloud and On\-prem and different formats\) to Google Cloud using different GCP tools including Apache Airflow

Intern at Pluto7 \- ML and Smart Analytics Experts, Jan 2020 \- Mar 2020 · 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, 1\. Worked as a Full Stack developer on a Supply\-Chain product 2\. Exploring GCP’s tools

Intern at NTTF \(Nettur Technical Training Foundation\), Aug 2019 \- Sep 2019 · 2 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

## Education

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, BNM Institute of Technology

Intermediate Year\-2, PCMC, Sharada College, S\.K\.D\.B\. Campus, Kodialbail, Mangalore\-575003

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