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Naman Agarwal

Engineering Manager, Rippling Data Cloud | Leading AI Dashboards & Connectors

Greater Bengaluru Area

11+ years of work experience

Rippling
Apr 20265 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Leading engineering for AI Dashboards & Connectors within Rippling Data Cloud Own Dashboard Copilot, an AI agent for natural-language dashboard creation. Authored a North Star strategy consolidating five previously fragmented analytics surfaces (Report, Dashboard, Document, App, Site) into one architecture Led a cost-efficiency initiative replacing legacy charting dependencies with an in-house rendering stack Run technical hiring for SDE-II and EM roles, including system design interviews and debrief calibration Mentor engineers
Rippling
Apr 20251 yrMar 2026

Proposed and led the "Data Cloud Quality Service" initiative to improve platform transparency and performance monitoring; independently designed and built a user-facing debug panel — backend latency service and UI — from scratch Led the beta launch of Home Dashboards for major enterprise customers Designed "Embedded Report Dashboard from Recipe," cutting dashboard reseeding time from ~8 hours to real-time Identified and resolved a critical data-security vulnerability, then proactively audited the codebase and added preventative safeguards Authored guides on AI-interpretable codebase design and an end-to-end AI developer workflow, championing AI-first development practices across the team Established the team's architectural/engineering doc review process and facilitated monthly engineering retrospectives Formally mentored engineers through Rippling's GAINS mentorship program
Rippling
Jun 20222 yrs 11 mosApr 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led the Reports RQL Transition, migrating Reports infrastructure from 0% to 99% onto Rippling's in-house query engine — cutting runtime on multi-million-row ATS reports from 60+ second timeouts to ~3 seconds Built Virtual Tables and Column Filter Pushdown, removing query-length limits and cutting network traffic to the analytics store by 50% Designed a persona-based dashboard seeding framework supporting 40+ personas and 30+ dashboard recipes, powering embedded dashboards across 13+ Rippling products Redesigned nightly dashboard refresh scheduling, cutting peak compute load by ~70% Drove a Reports & Dashboards performance program that reduced P95 dashboard load times from 20+ seconds to under 2 seconds Shipped ChartGPT, Dashboard Widgets, and Incident Communications features; holds two provisional patents Served as de facto tech lead for the Dashboards team; mentored and onboarded multiple engineers, including one through promotion Participated in campus hiring drives at IIT Guwahati and BITS Goa, completing 60+ candidate debrief sessions
Goldman Sachs
Jan 20225 mosMay 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Goldman Sachs
Jan 20202 yrsDec 2021

Greater Bengaluru Area

Goldman Sachs
Apr 20181 yr 10 mosJan 2020

Bangaluru

Samsung
Jul 20161 yr 9 mosMar 2018

Noida Area, India

Overall Responsibilities: - Member of Remote Services domain and Remote management(RM) team.
Eko India Financial Services Private Limited
May 20153 mosJul 2015

Gurugram, Haryana, India

I was summer intern at EKO India Financial Services. I was a crucial part of the team working for the new proof of concept projects for EKO.
Microsoft Campus Club
Aug 20142 yrsJul 2016

Rourkela

Microsoft Campus Club, registered under Student Activity Center, NIT Rourkela, is a intermediate between National Institute of Technology Rourkela and Microsoft Campus Connect Program. My Responsibilities include organizing programming Workshops and events, Helping the club members in coding workshops and many more.

Education

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

National Institute of Technology Rourkela

20124 yrs2016

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Headline

Engineering Manager, Rippling Data Cloud | Leading AI Dashboards & Connectors

About

I am Associate at Goldman Sachs Bengaluru. I am passionate about new technologies and solving real world problems.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

Work experience

Engineering Manager at Rippling, Apr 2026 - Present · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Leading engineering for AI Dashboards & Connectors within Rippling Data Cloud Own Dashboard Copilot, an AI agent for natural-language dashboard creation. Authored a North Star strategy consolidating five previously fragmented analytics surfaces (Report, Dashboard, Document, App, Site) into one architecture Led a cost-efficiency initiative replacing legacy charting dependencies with an in-house rendering stack Run technical hiring for SDE-II and EM roles, including system design interviews and debrief calibration Mentor engineers

Staff Software Engineer at Rippling, Apr 2025 - Mar 2026 · 1 yr, Proposed and led the "Data Cloud Quality Service" initiative to improve platform transparency and performance monitoring; independently designed and built a user-facing debug panel — backend latency service and UI — from scratch Led the beta launch of Home Dashboards for major enterprise customers Designed "Embedded Report Dashboard from Recipe," cutting dashboard reseeding time from ~8 hours to real-time Identified and resolved a critical data-security vulnerability, then proactively audited the codebase and added preventative safeguards Authored guides on AI-interpretable codebase design and an end-to-end AI developer workflow, championing AI-first development practices across the team Established the team's architectural/engineering doc review process and facilitated monthly engineering retrospectives Formally mentored engineers through Rippling's GAINS mentorship program

Senior Software Engineer at Rippling, Jun 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led the Reports RQL Transition, migrating Reports infrastructure from 0% to 99% onto Rippling's in-house query engine — cutting runtime on multi-million-row ATS reports from 60+ second timeouts to ~3 seconds Built Virtual Tables and Column Filter Pushdown, removing query-length limits and cutting network traffic to the analytics store by 50% Designed a persona-based dashboard seeding framework supporting 40+ personas and 30+ dashboard recipes, powering embedded dashboards across 13+ Rippling products Redesigned nightly dashboard refresh scheduling, cutting peak compute load by ~70% Drove a Reports & Dashboards performance program that reduced P95 dashboard load times from 20+ seconds to under 2 seconds Shipped ChartGPT, Dashboard Widgets, and Incident Communications features; holds two provisional patents Served as de facto tech lead for the Dashboards team; mentored and onboarded multiple engineers, including one through promotion Participated in campus hiring drives at IIT Guwahati and BITS Goa, completing 60+ candidate debrief sessions

Vice President at Goldman Sachs, Jan 2022 - May 2022 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Associate at Goldman Sachs, Jan 2020 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs, Greater Bengaluru Area

Analyst at Goldman Sachs, Apr 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bangaluru

Engineer at Samsung, Jul 2016 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos, Noida Area, India, Overall Responsibilities: - Member of Remote Services domain and Remote management(RM) team.

Summer Intern at Eko India Financial Services Private Limited, May 2015 - Jul 2015 · 3 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, I was summer intern at EKO India Financial Services. I was a crucial part of the team working for the new proof of concept projects for EKO.

Coding Mentor at Microsoft Campus Club, Aug 2014 - Jul 2016 · 2 yrs, Rourkela, Microsoft Campus Club, registered under Student Activity Center, NIT Rourkela, is a intermediate between National Institute of Technology Rourkela and Microsoft Campus Connect Program. My Responsibilities include organizing programming Workshops and events, Helping the club members in coding workshops and many more.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, National Institute of Technology Rourkela