Mercedes-Benz Research and Development IndiaSoftware Engineer
Jul. 2019 - Oct. 2022India, BengaluruProgressed from Data Engineer to Internal Consultant across Mercedes-Benz’s Autonomous Driving program, building ingestion pipelines, shipping analytics tools used org-wide, and advising cross-functional teams on standing up their own data infrastructure
- Bootstrapped and scaled an org-wide signal search engine for petabyte-scale autonomous driving test data, conceived and prototyped solo, grown to a 5-engineer full-time team by the time of departure. The tool eliminated cross-continental data requests by indexing binary fleet data via an inverted index, allowing engineers to extract specific signals on demand
- Led a feasibility study in collaboration with Microsoft to define the cloud migration strategy for petabyte-scale On-Prem data into Azure, covering ETL pipeline migration, licensing constraints for custom software, and budget guardrails. The study became the foundational blueprint for the program’s Azure adoption
- Unlocked real-world ADAS insights for senior management by building a PowerBI dashboard integrating after-sales diagnostic data with internal signals, giving leadership direct visibility into field performance of Level 3 ADAS features
- Designed the data ingestion pipeline for the Athena Project, a Mercedes-Benz and Bosch Level 5 autonomous robotaxi collaboration
- Built the Crowd Analytics ingestion pipeline, processing telemetry from customer and development fleet vehicles across the AD program