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title: "Hitesh Agrawal - Principal Data and Analytics Engineer in Mumbai | Tal"
description: "Meet Hitesh Agrawal, M.Tech, IIIT-Bangalore. Helping firms in designing and implementing scalable solutions for enterprise data and analytics needs. based in Mumbai. AI stack includes cursor and opencode."
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# Hitesh Agrawal on Tal

## Headline

M\.Tech, IIIT\-Bangalore\. Helping firms in designing and implementing scalable solutions for enterprise data and analytics needs\.

## About

In my career, I have been lucky enough to have worked on a variety of things ranging from 'Application design and development' to 'Search and Analytics' to 'Data Platform creation and maintenance' to 'AI Tools & MCP Server'\. I believe in continuous self\-growth and don't shy from facing new challenges head\-on outside of comfort zone\. Data Science Major from IIIT Bangalore\. Gaming Enthusiast\. Like to read Fiction Novels\.

## Location

Mumbai

## AI stack

cursor

opencode

## Work experience

Principal Data and Analytics Engineer at Trafigura, Apr 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 5 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Part of global Data Science and Engineering team\. We help help traders, data scientists and analysts by understanding their needs and building cutting edge solutions for the same\. I am responsible for end to end delivery of products, currently I have 3 products in my folio and 1 jointly managed\. 1> Event driven ingestion pipeline ingesting high volume of data in near real time into Iceberg\. Support for reconciliation and automated maintenance along with lineage information of each and every event flowing through the pipeline\. 2> A extendible config based ingestion framework for easily migrating data from various sources to Iceberg\. Framework takes care of creating schedules / S3 Triggers, corresponding iceberg tables if they don't exist, running maintenance on the iceberg tables\. Framework can be extended to include custom extract, transform or load stages\. 3> An On\-Prem Hosted Service which provides masking & unmasking capabilities for tokens, generating a pair of \(DEK \+ HMAC\) key for file encryption / decryption\. 4> A MCP Server integration framework connected to TeamsBot, which allows for multiple MCP servers to be integrated and then interact with them via Teams in a authorized way to run various operational tasks\. Apart from that I am also responsible for maintenance and improvements in our data platform, researching and incorporating new technologies\. Tech : AI Integration Tools, MCP Servers, Glue, Redshift, RDS, MWAA, Lambda, Athena, EMR, MSK, ECS, Kinesis, Flink, Iceberg on S3

Data Platform Engineer at Jupiter, Oct 2020 \- Mar 2021 · 6 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Part of Data Platform and Analytics Team\. Using Spark 3 with native Kubernetes as master running on EKS cluster\. Using dynamic DAGs on Airflow so that end users can create and schedule complex ETL jobs without writing code\. Managing the overall data flow within the platform, Data lineage and monitoring\.

Manager at Morgan Stanley, Jan 2020 \- Sep 2020 · 9 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Helping applications migrate to big data technologies\. Managing and optimizing solutions for Analytics\( faceting, aggregations, etc \) and Search \( relevancy optimizations based on historical patterns, boosting, field type manipulation, etc\) for multiple teams and use\-cases within department\.

Senior Associate at Morgan Stanley, Jan 2019 \- Jan 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • A part of Search CoE under Analytics and Data Technology in Wealth Management division\. • Managing and optimizing search solutions, creating guidelines and best practices\. • Creating generic plugins and APIs for various distributed systems \(Lucidworks Fusion, Apache Solr, Apache Kakfa, etc\) for use by entire department\.

Associate at Morgan Stanley, Jan 2018 \- Dec 2018 · 1 yr, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, • Analysing and integrating various ML tools and frameworks with the firm’s infrastructure in a secure way using SSO\. • Created Sigmund \- A utility for providing consistent and easy access to create,manage and scale various distributed services for Analytics and Data Management on cloud\.

Intern at Morgan Stanley, Jan 2017 \- Jun 2017 · 6 mos, bangalore, Created web applications for admin related tasks using Angular, Java and REST

## Education

Master of Technology \(M\.Tech\.\), Data Science, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Computer Science, Medi\-Caps Institute of Technology & Management Rau, Indore

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