I'm Raghu, a Senior Engineering Manager based in Dubai, specializing in Data Engineering and Machine Learning Platform. I currently lead an 8-engineer team at Talabat (DeliveryHero), owning the technical roadmap for petabyte-scale data infrastructure and production ML systems across GCP and AWS. Over 11+ years, I've built data and ML platforms from the ground up at companies like Careem (Uber), HelloFresh (Berlin) , and DeliveryHero — scaling systems, reducing costs, and growing high-performing engineering teams. Beyond my day job, I'm an instructor on KodeKloud and Udemy with 28,000+ students, teaching data engineering, cloud, and platform concepts to engineers worldwide. On Topmate, I'm here to help you with: - Breaking into or leveling up in Data Engineering & MLOps - Navigating engineering career growth (IC to Staff, or IC to EM) - Resume reviews and interview prep - Building scalable data platforms and ML systems - Engineering leadership and team management