Summary
Harjeet Rajpal is a senior AI and engineering leader based in Bengaluru with 16+ years of experience and 11 years in hands-on data and ML roles, currently leading Forecasting and Data at Tesco. He built and scaled a 100+ strong data science and ML engineering organization that delivered £206M in waste reduction and a 4% availability uplift through improved demand forecasting, inventory optimization and personalized recommendations. Skilled across big-data platforms and streaming technologies—Spark, Kafka, Hadoop ecosystem, HBase and in-memory databases—he has repeatedly operationalized ML and LLM-driven solutions across supply chains. His career spans finance and consulting (Morgan Stanley, Publicis Sapient) to retail, combining fraud and anomaly detection work with large-scale forecasting systems. He also founded YouTube Data Savvy, reflecting a curiosity for practical data products and community-facing learning. Known for pairing strategic data governance with pragmatic engineering, he excels at turning complex data science into measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
IK Gujral Punjab Technical University