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title: "Rishabh Raj - Founding Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Rishabh Raj, Founding Engineer @ Crustdata (YC F24) | ex -Ola | IIT Roorkee based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and n8n."
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# Rishabh Raj on Tal

## Headline

Founding Engineer @ Crustdata \(YC F24\) \| ex \-Ola \| IIT Roorkee

## About

I'm a Passionate Backend & Big Data Engineer working in the Maps domain\. My expertise includes Spark, Python, Java,C\+\+, and Web Development technologies\. Currently, I'm building OLA MAPS as part of the data team, focusing on data creation, extraction, transformation, conflation, maintenance, and data serving for different map layers\. I'm an IIT Roorkee graduate with a passion for driving innovation & solving engineering problems\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

codex

n8n

claudecode

ChatGPT

Wispr Flow

## Work experience

Founding Engineer at Crustdata, Aug 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Building Crustdata

SDE\-1 at Ola, Jun 2022 \- Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building OLA Maps

Quantitative Analyst at TradeLogic Systems, Jul 2021 \- Sep 2021 · 3 mos

Summer Analyst at Veda Capital, Jun 2021 \- Jul 2021 · 2 mos, WFH

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

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