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Résumé

Generated from the work log, stack and projects on this site. Updated October 2026.

Rishabh Mehta

Cloud & Data Engineer (SDE), Jio Platforms · Mumbai, India

I build data platforms and cloud infrastructure, then make them smaller. In three years at Jio I built a Rust framework that replaced Spark across 17 application groups, moved 400+ Spark jobs to Structured Streaming, and scaled ClickHouse past two trillion rows. Now I'm building the cloud and network foundations of an AI datacenter.

Experience

Jio Platforms · Cloud & Data Engineer (SDE), Jio Cloud

Dec 2023 to now

Cloud and network foundations for India's largest AI datacenter

Aug – Sep 2026

Moved down the stack into the infrastructure layer of a bare-metal GPU cloud, building from the ground up: out-of-band DPU provisioning, a private WireGuard mesh, bastion access, and automation for every firewall and proxy change.

9 / 9 DPF health checks passing on the first DPU node0 agents installed on tenant bare-metal hosts3 bastion engines built and compared on Kubernetes

BlueField-3 · DPF · Redfish · Kubernetes · Headscale · WireGuard · F5 BIG-IP · Temporal

Moving 400+ Spark jobs to Structured Streaming

May – Aug 2026

Migrated the Generic Parser framework, and the hundreds of streaming jobs running on it, off the legacy DStream API and onto Spark Structured Streaming, then built the observability the stock Spark UI does not have.

400+ production Spark ETL jobs on the framework~25% better throughput per core across the fleet95 s → 44 s median batch on the hardest job after tuning

Scala · Spark Structured Streaming · Kafka · Catalyst · SparkPlugin · Kubernetes

DataCraft: a Rust ETL framework and SDK

Apr – Jul 2026

Turned the lessons from the MyJio rewrite into a framework of my own, so the next sixteen migrations would be configuration rather than code.

1st internal Cargo registry in the organisation7+ observability pipelines on Rust in the first wave

Rust · tokio · rdkafka · serde · ClickHouse · Kafka · Artifactory · Azure DevOps

Spark to Rust: the log-parsing fleet

Mar – Jun 2026

Rewrote the real-time log parser for MyJio in Rust, took it to production, and turned it into the template for the rest of the fleet, including Ajio and Netmeds.

480 → 10 CPU cores, MyJio pilot480 GB → 4.2 GB peak memory, MyJio pilot10 s → 2.3 s end-to-end batch latency

Rust · rdkafka · tokio · Kafka · Kubernetes · Spark 2 · Perl

IPDR analytics on multi-cluster ClickHouse

Feb – May 2026

Scaled a nationwide IP detail record platform: ingestion, schema and sort-key design, and the day-to-day work of keeping a very large ClickHouse estate healthy.

200+ PB data under management2 T+ rows in the largest tables<20 ms subscriber lookups, down from hundreds of ms

ClickHouse · ClickHouse Keeper · Linux · Bash · Python · SSH

AI tooling for the data platform

Dec 2025 – Jun 2026

Brought agentic tooling into the team early, then built the platform's own Model Context Protocol server so an engineer can scaffold, validate and test-run a pipeline from their editor.

MCP · JSON-RPC · SSE · Python · Kubernetes · Azure DevOps

SLA accuracy, GitOps and container hygiene

Oct 2025 – Feb 2026

A stretch of unglamorous work that removed whole classes of problems rather than individual bugs.

155 / 167 CVEs fixed in a platform image497 days uptime counter bug found and fixed

Scala · Spark · SNMP · Zabbix · Oracle · Elasticsearch · Docker · Azure DevOps

Data Engineering as a Service

Jun – Sep 2025

Control-plane APIs that give cloud customers managed Spark on Kubernetes, from onboarding to offboarding.

Python · FastAPI · Kubernetes · Helm · Vault · Oracle

An SLA engine for cloud availability

Jul – Aug 2025

Designed and built the daily engine that decides which seconds of downtime count against cloud SLAs, for every server, VM, storage array and network device on the platform.

4 sources reconciled daily: monitoring, events, CMDB, change tickets1 s resolution for HA partner overlap0 rows overwritten; every correction is auditable

Scala · Spark · Zabbix · Oracle · Elasticsearch · SQL

Rebuilding the Generic Parser framework

Nov 2024 – Jun 2025

The in-house, config-driven Scala Spark ETL framework behind hundreds of production jobs. I restructured it around typed plugin models and wrote most of the connectors.

Scala · Spark · JDBC · Elasticsearch · Oracle

Observability pipeline

Oct 2024 – Jul 2025

Log and metric shipping for the whole cloud platform, and the tools to see when it breaks.

Kafka · Vector · Fluent Bit · Prometheus · Logstash · Elasticsearch · Python · Helm

Metering and billing for the cloud platform

May 2024 – Sep 2025

Owned the pipelines that turn resource usage into invoices across the platform. Correctness matters more than speed here: every mistake is somebody's bill.

PySpark · Oracle · GCS · Azure Blob · REST

Joined Jio Platforms

Dec 2023 – May 2024

Spark on Kubernetes, cloud cost and catalog pipelines, and the shared libraries every job still uses.

PySpark · Scala · Kubernetes · Elasticsearch · Kafka

Before Jio

B.E. Computer Engineering, Pillai HOC College of Engineering & Technology

2019 – 2023

Graduated with a 9.3 CGPA.

Chapter Lead, Google Developer Student Clubs

Jul 2021 – Jul 2022

GDSC Lead, selected by Google.

Project Admin & Mentor, GirlScript Foundation

Feb – May 2022

Ran an open-source Android project.

QA Intern, Fyntune Solutions

Dec 2019 – Jun 2020

First job: software testing.

Recognition

  • Star Performer award · Jio Cloud annual Townhall
  • Best Performer of the batch, 2019–23 · PHCET
  • Google Developer Student Clubs Lead · Google India, 2021–22
  • Google Android Educator · Google Developers, 2022
  • Postman Student Expert · Postman, 2022
  • Grand finalist, Toycathon · Government of India, 2021

Skills

Languages
Rust, Scala, Python, SQL, Bash, Kotlin, Java
Data engineering
Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, DataCraft, Generic Parser, PySpark, Vector, Fluent Bit, Logstash
Databases & analytics
ClickHouse, Elasticsearch, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Trino, Apache Superset
Kubernetes & platform
Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Azure DevOps, JFrog Artifactory, HashiCorp Vault, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix
Infrastructure & networking
NVIDIA BlueField-3, NVIDIA DPF, Redfish / BMC, WireGuard, Headscale, F5 BIG-IP, Temporal, Crossplane, OpenTofu / Terraform, APIGEE
Cloud
Jio Cloud, Azure, Google Cloud
Tooling & AI
Git, Linux, Model Context Protocol, Claude / Cursor, FastAPI, Android / Jetpack, Firebase

Projects