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title: "Naman Agarwal - Engineering Manager in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
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# Naman Agarwal on Tal

## 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

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