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title: "Harsh Chandak - Co-Founder in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Harsh Chandak, Data Engineer | IIT Bombay, ETH Zürich PySpark · Databricks · SQL · Airflow · Snowflake based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude code, and codex."
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# Harsh Chandak on Tal

## Headline

Data Engineer \| IIT Bombay, ETH Zürich PySpark · Databricks · SQL · Airflow · Snowflake

## About

Data and AI engineer with 5 years of work experience working at the intersection of data and AI\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

codex

cursor

openai

## Work experience

Co\-Founder at Worthee, Jul 2025 \- Dec 2025 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, • Built Worthee, an advisory and execution platform for mutual funds aimed at making wealth management simpler and more accessible for retail investors\. • Owned the journey end to end, from understanding the problem space and speaking to users to shaping the product flow, building the MVP, and improving the solution based on feedback\. • Built hands\-on experience in 0 to 1 startup building across product, execution, user understanding, and operating through early\-stage ambiguity\.

Data Engineer at Partners Group, May 2023 \- Feb 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos, Mumbai, • Pioneered a first\-of\-its\-kind automated ESG reporting platform, enhancing regulatory transparency and trust across 80\+ global funds and 10,000\+ portfolio investments • Drove cross\-functional alignment between investment, ESG, and product teams, transforming fragmented regulatory workflows into unified decision\-making systems that scaled with growth and complexity • Modelled enterprise data in Snowflake \(Data Vault 2\.0\) and integrated 100\+ metrics into the firm's Data Service application\.

Data Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, Jun 2021 \- Apr 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, • Built global vehicle data infrastructure powering insights for 0\.5 million\+ cars, enabling product intelligence at scale • Collaborated with teams across the UK and India; Cut pipeline processing time by 90% \(20\+ mins to under 2 mins\) by resolving a decoding bottleneck\.

Graduate Software Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, Sep 2020 \- May 2021 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, • Built a facial\-recognition system to personalise in\-vehicle driver settings, owned end\-to\-end from prototype to demo\. • Built a KPI evaluation suite for 3D object detection and trained a Faster R\-CNN model for traffic\-sign detection on JLR data\.

Teaching Assistant at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Jul 2019 \- May 2020 · 11 mos, CE 102 \- Engineering Mechanics \| ME 201 \- Solid Mechanics \| ME 220 \- Theory of Machines and Machine Design • Designing problem set, solutions for the tutorial \| Supervising the tutorial sessions \| Conducting extra help sessions

Institute Student Mentor \(ISMP\) at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Apr 2019 \- Jun 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos, • Guiding and mentoring 12 freshmen, providing them counsel, and helping them adjust to campus life • Selected based on overall performance via a rigorous procedure of SOP, interview, and peer reviews \(1 of 108/300\)

Department Academic Mentorship Program \(DAMP\) at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Apr 2019 \- Jun 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos, • Helping weaker students clear backlogs and get their academic careers back on track • Selected in a team of 33 out of 95\+ applicants and we currently mentor 185 students in their academic concerns

Internship Trainee at GE Aviation, May 2018 \- Jul 2018 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Streamlined aviation workflows by automating engineering processes, improving efficiency & reducing manual overhead • Used text analytics to classify engine parts, simplifying inventory systems and reducing bottlenecks

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\), Master of Technology \(M\.Tech\), Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Exchange Student, Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zürich

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