Vishal Badole
Data & AI Platform Engineer
Pune
Summary
8+years of experience, including onsite engagements across Europe, specializing in data platforms and AI solutions. Expertise in leveraging Google Cloud Platform and other leading cloud providers to deliver innovative data solutions for top-tier clients in the retail, FMCG, and manufacturing sectors. Committed to driving data-driven decision-making and optimizing business processes through advanced technology integration.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Platform Engineer [ Data & AI ]
Nihilent Technologies
08.2024 - Current
- Led AI innovation initiatives by evaluating and integrating cutting-edge technologies such as Gemini Enterprise, Enterprise Search, and MCP servers, enabling the organization to adopt modern AI-powered capabilities.
- Built multiple internal AI tools that automated routine tasks and significantly improved developer productivity across teams.
- Drove strategy and governance as part of the Center of Excellence (CoE), providing architectural guidance, reviewing solution designs, and enabling teams to adopt standardized best practices.
- Designed and implemented scalable data platform solutions on GCP, ensuring resilient, secure, and high-performing data ecosystems.
- Enhanced platform stability and delivered end-to-end serverless data pipelines with BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Run.
- Developed dbt data transformation models, enabling modular, tested, and version-controlled analytics workflows.
- Contributed to internal technical strategy by evaluating new cloud and AI technologies for enterprise adoption.
Data Mesh Engineer
Ernst & Young
04.2024 - Current
- Streamlined complex data workflows by automating tasks using scheduling tools like Apache Airflow .
- Increased the performance of ETL pipelines by reducing the execution time improving efficiency.
- Databricks workflows monitoring and enhancement.
- Building Data Mesh on GCP and Private cloud ecosystem.
- Have built python components for reusability and automation.
GCP Data Engineer | Data Mesh Architect
Tata Consultancy Services , Pune
01.2024 - 03.2024
- While working for a renowned Retail Client, I am actively involved in the Data Analytics domain where my role is primarily focused on data orchestration which includes Data ingestion from source, Data Transformation on Google Cloud and applying data warehousing solutions.
- Collaborated on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks, maintaining data integrity and verifying pipeline stability.
- Build Data Pipelines in Airflow, Workflows in GCP for ELT related jobs.
- Build Decentralized Data warehouse on Big query.
- Also, as an extended SRE create a bridge between development and operations for the data products building on Google cloud.
- Developed pipelines and workflows using dbt and bigquery.
- Identified common pipeline patterns and have built python code component
Data Mesh Platform Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services , Stockholm
01.2023 - 12.2023
- Playing a vital role in building Decentralized data mesh platform with one of the leading retail clients.
- Also contributing to the new role as Site Reliability Engineer on Google Cloud which involves making Cloud infrastructure Reliable and Safe from vulnerabilities and failures.
- Identify manual repetitive tasks during operations and build automated frameworks on cloud.
- Working in AGILE WOW, to deliver customer requirements in an Agile way without having business downtime.
- Actively involved in all the Architecture decisions in making Data transformations and data warehouse solutions.
- Python development and script building
GCP Data Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services , Pune
03.2018 - 12.2022
- Collaborated on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tasks, maintaining data integrity and verifying pipeline stability.
- Contributed to internal activities for overall process improvements, efficiencies and innovation.
- Analyzed complex data and identified anomalies, trends, and risks to provide useful insights to improve internal controls.
Education
B.E - Mechanical Engineering
SPPU, Pune
05-2017
Skills
- AI initiatives and Tools, MCP's
- ETL Development
- Python
- Terraform Infrastructure
- SQL
- CI / CD Implementation
- Agile Framework
- Google Cloud Platform
- Dbt, Databricks
Timeline
Data Platform Engineer [ Data & AI ]
Nihilent Technologies
08.2024 - Current
Data Mesh Engineer
Ernst & Young
04.2024 - Current
GCP Data Engineer | Data Mesh Architect
Tata Consultancy Services , Pune
01.2024 - 03.2024
Data Mesh Platform Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services , Stockholm
01.2023 - 12.2023
GCP Data Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services , Pune
03.2018 - 12.2022
B.E - Mechanical Engineering
SPPU, Pune