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title: "Nikhil Chadha - Principal Architect - Analytics & Data CoE in Bengaluru | Tal"
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# Nikhil Chadha on Tal

## Headline

Principal Architect @ Tavant \|\| Engineering Agentic\-AI Accelerators \|\| Agentification of Development, Modelling, Operations & Governance for Data Platforms empowering AI Natively

## About

A Passionate Data Leader with 15 years of extensive experience across product and services organisations, specialising in enterprise data strategy, data platforms, data governance, analytics engineering, and AI\-enabled data solutions\. I have led the design and delivery of petabyte\-scale data ecosystems that serve as single sources of truth across organisations, enabling business leaders to improve decision\-making, increase revenue, reduce operational cost, strengthen KPI and OKR tracking, and deliver higher\-quality insights to customers and stakeholders\. I also have experience building high\-integrity engineering teams, partnering with sales and pre\-sales teams, and translating complex data capabilities into business accelerators\. Looking forward to solving challenging problems for organisations craving for data driven decisions for business expansion & ROI growth and are in search for a pillared hands\-on leader to take ownership and provide visionary insights for making critical decisions\. Enthusiastic to mentor young deserving folks effortfully aspiring career growth, I mentor & motivate young talent and help them reach their next level, and I would encourage you to feel free to reach for any industry guidance\. ✉ nikhil\.chadha@outlook\.com ✆ \(\+91\) 9035006690

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

langchain

langgraph

ollama

Devin

LlamaIndex

## Work experience

Principal Architect \- Analytics & Data CoE at Tavant, Nov 2025 \- Present · 10 mos, Bengaluru, ✓ Pitching our Accelerators to existing and prospective customers Working with sales and pre\-sales teams ✓ Provide strategic and technical leadership for Accelerators by owning accelerator vision, architecture, end\-to\-end delivery and enterprise adoption\. ✓ Owned the Accelerators across the dimensions of Data Strategy, Data Modeling, Data Quality & Data Operations enabled with multi\-agentic AI\. ✓ Lead cross\-functional collaboration with engineering, delivery, sales, and pre\-sales teams to utilize these accelerators within existing customer ecosystems as well as setup new customers for success\. Ensure the Accelerators enable our customer’s data platforms to achieve improved governance, reduced engineering effort, stronger operational resilience, and faster enterprise data transformation and deliver

Data Architect at MathCo, Apr 2025 \- Nov 2025 · 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ✓ Leading a Data Engineering Team of 20 members for the GAP client working in 4 PODs building a Customer360 Master Data Store and Loyalty 2\.0 POD\. ✓ Succeeded in reducing dependency on a SPOC Data Architect by setting up SMEs for different areas of the project implementation\. ✓ Managing project end\-2\-end including requirement gathering, development & delivery of Loyalty 2\.0 POD \(7 members global team\)\. ✓ Mentoring 70\+ budding and experienced engineers on Data Engineering, Pipelining, Dimensional Modelling and Data Architecture\.

Data Management Senior Lead at Telstra, Sep 2023 \- Apr 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ✓ Proposed Designs for building Modern Data Platform Solutions like Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Data Fabric, and Data Platform Mesh to unify Multiple disintegrated Data Platforms\. ✓ Proposed a Conceptual Design for an Internal Data Marketplace for all teams to consume data using an API\-based Spark SQL Execution Layer to perform ETL using SQL Code at runtime to reduce the need to copy data\. ✓ Proposed 4 Level Medallion Architecture with Bronze Layer to gather Raw Data, Silver Layer to maintain the post\-cleansed data for Low\-Level Reporting and Data Science Exploration, Gold Layer to maintain all Aggregated Metrics Reporting, and finally Platinum Layer to maintain pre\-computed results of all Operational Data Science and Machine Learning Algorithms used to perform predictions and prescriptions\. ✓ Proposed Bronze Layer Data Dictionary Approach to define all fields with appropriate Data Classifications and design an Automated Data Classification Percolation Process within the CI/CD pipeline\. This process would be used to analyze and generate classifications of derived fields generated by SQL code in subsequent layers\. The same process could also be used to enforce Relevant Masking/Encryption techniques within the code to comply with Data Governance and Data Privacy Laws across the organization and control privacy breaches\. ✓ Mentored Freshers in Data Engineering Chapter in Data Technologies and Conceptual Database Design\. ✓ Developed a small SQL Code Conversion Utility to convert Synapse PL/SQL code to Spark SQL\. ✓ Worked on Data and ETL Migration POCs from Azure Synapse to Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric\. ✓ Owned current implementation of Change Data Capture \(CDC\) and enhanced, optimized, and rectified the process across the different options for performing CDC\.

Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Nov 2021 \- Sep 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ► Designing the analytics data pipeline and architecture for event and telemetry reporting ► Designing configuration\-based data ingestion pipeline using Azure Synapse to ingest data from multiple database sources into Azure Data Lake Storage with an auto\-schema evolution feature ► Developed a configuration\-based plug\-and\-play ETL pipeline framework in spark to enable injection, execution and order control of SQL files for ETL processing using configuration files ► Designed the dimensional model for the data warehouse and developed the SQL\-based ETL code for building the EDA store, data warehouse objects, and aggregated mart objects ► Designed specialized domain\-specific aggregated data marts for reporting metrics to internal business leadership and management as well as providing insights to external customers ► Designed and developed a configuration\-based plug\-and\-play data sanity framework in spark to execute critical data validations and gather insights about our pipeline execution status ► Developed an internal framework to generate XML files for integration with other products ► Migrated application database from third\-party cloud PostgreSQL providers to Azure PostgreSQL service with appropriate migration strategies and distribution patterns

Ally\.io \- Data Architect at Microsoft, Sep 2021 \- Oct 2021 · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ► Designed prospective architecture options for the data analytics and engineering system ► Improved performance of long\-running queries on PostgreSQL by remodeling queries and indexes ► Proposed OLTP Data Model Design Changes that could optimize all the queries further by leveraging the benefit of the sharding feature provided within PostgreSQL ► Mentoring team members on how to write optimized queries to reduce their execution time

Staff Software Engineer at Intuit India, May 2020 \- Sep 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ► Core Member \- Data Engineering – Centre of Excellence \(CoE\) – Data Modelling ► Stakeholder interactions including the gathering of requirements and clarifications, setting of expectations, resolution of conflicts, and identifying root cause analysis for issue ► Interacting with product owners, data analysts and data scientists for business clarity ► Developed Insights and QB Cash Data Marts with high extensibility, flexibility, and performance ► Reduced the execution of an EMR based ETL pipeline processing 10\+ TB of data from 20\+ hours to less than 3 hours by identifying the bottlenecks in the job execution ► Worked with organization leads to understand the defined future architecture and work on the planning and execution of the complete migration of the legacy system in a lift\-n\-shift manner ► Delegating tasks to the team members and taking responsibility for overall ownership ► Managing performance and deliverables of the team as well as upskilling team members ► Performing data mart and pipeline design reviews as well as in\-depth code reviews ► Leading & Mentoring team members to scale them up in business and in technology

## Education

PG \- CEP \- Certificate Program, Quantum Computing & Machine Learning, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Bachelor of Engineering \(BE\), Electronics and Communications Engineering, University Institute of Technology, The University of Burdwan

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