Summary
Hitesh Agrawal is a data engineer with nine years of experience delivering end-to-end data solutions across finance and trading platforms. He currently designs and maintains data platforms at Trafigura, leading event-driven ingestion pipelines and live pricing applications, while coordinating with traders, data scientists, analysts, and vendors. Previously, he built scalable data pipelines on Spark 3 with Kubernetes on EKS at Jupiter, enabling dynamic, user-driven ETL workflows. At Morgan Stanley, he advanced analytics and search capabilities, developing reusable plugins and APIs for distributed systems like Lucidworks Fusion, Apache Solr, and Kafka, and led governance and best-practice guidelines. He holds an MTech in Data Science from IIIT Bangalore and a BE in Computer Science, and is based in Mumbai. Outside work, he is a gaming enthusiast and fiction reader, and pursues ongoing data science study.
9 years of coding experience