Rajesh Hegde
Functional Manager, Data Platform Engineering Senior Staff Engineer
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolRajesh Hegde is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building scalable data platforms and ML/AI products across e-commerce, digital advertising, analytics, and AI observability. He co-founded and served as CTO of dblue.ai, which built an MLOps platform and was acquired by Fiddler AI, where he now leads Data Platform Engineering for their AI observability product. Rajesh combines hands-on systems architecture—optimizing ClickHouse, Postgres, Kafka, and Kubernetes—with pragmatic delivery practices that produced 50x latency reductions and meaningful cost savings. He excels at mentoring distributed teams, driving incremental development, and shipping cross-cutting backend capabilities like unified ORMs, async processing, and versioned model tracking. Comfortable across the stack from data pipelines to APIs, he has a knack for turning research-grade ML features into production-ready, maintainable services. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with deep operational experience in production MLOps and observability.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at Sri Siddhartha Institute of TechnologyM.E.S Chaithanya P.U College Sirsi
English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu
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Github Skills (85)
google-cloud-datastore10
snowplow10
google-cloud-kms10
html9
data-pipeline9
data-collection9
google-chrome9
chef-infra9
data-infrastructure9
analytics9
gitea7
python7
cicd7
vue7
jupyter-kernels7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RajeshHegde/rajeshhegde.github.io
Jun 2015 - Sep 2018
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
dblueai/giteapy
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Python SDK for Gitea - A painless, self-hosted Git service
Contributions:21 commits, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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