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title: "Harshita Kumari - Staff Data Engineer in Bengaluru South | Tal"
description: "Meet Harshita Kumari, Staff Data Engineer at Visa | Data Engineering | PySpark | Spark | SQL | Cloud | Ex- Dell Technologies | Ex- TCSer | Microsoft Certified - Data Analyst Associate based in Bengaluru South. AI stack includes cursor, hugging face, and langchain."
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# Harshita Kumari on Tal

## Headline

Staff Data Engineer at Visa \| Data Engineering \| PySpark \| Spark \| SQL \| Cloud \| Ex\- Dell Technologies \| Ex\- TCSer \| Microsoft Certified \- Data Analyst Associate

## About

Staff Data Engineer \| Real\-time Data Platforms \| 8\+ years Results\-driven architect of enterprise data systems\. 10x performance improvements through deliberate system design\. At Visa, I architected the end\-to\-end dispute data platform serving 100\+ clients: • Designed Bronze\-to\-Silver\-Gold Kafka streaming pipeline \(sub\-minute latency\) • Reduced billing pipeline from 3\-4 days to 9 hours \(10x improvement\) • Led team of 6 engineers on architecture design and execution • Built monitoring frameworks reducing manual support by 40% I obsess over: System architecture that scales • Mentoring teams • Data integrity • Performance optimization Proven track record turning technical challenges into business wins while building high\-performing engineering teams\. Tech: PySpark \| Apache Kafka \| Iceberg \| Structured Streaming \| Airflow \| System Design

## Location

Bengaluru South

## AI stack

cursor

hugging face

langchain

openai

## Work experience

Staff Data Engineer at Visa, Feb 2026 \- Present · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Promoted to Staff Data Engineer with responsibilities spanning data architecture, large\-scale ETL pipelines and performance optimization

Senior Data Engineer at Visa, Feb 2023 \- Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 1 mo, On\-site

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at Dell Technologies, Aug 2021 \- Feb 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

System Engineer at TATA Consultancy Services \(TCS\), Mar 2018 \- Aug 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Applied electronics and Instrumentation, Heritage Institute of Technology

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