Achal Aggarwal

Lead Data Engineer at Thoughtworks · Entrepreneur and Engineer

India

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Joined February 2026

Summary

Progressive data engineering career culminating in a Lead Data Engineer role at Thoughtworks, with multiple senior data and software engineering roles at ChargePoint. theorg+1

Longstanding open-source contributor to the Joomla project: GSoC student, active Bug Squad member, and contributor of patches and project work. joomla+2

International academic background with undergraduate engineering education in India and a master's degree in computer science from The University of Texas at Austin (2020–2022). rocketreach

Maintains a personal technical and social presence (personal site, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Twitter) that aggregates professional links and projects. ach+2

Achal Aggarwal

Summary

Work

Education

Projects

Hobbies

Active contributor to open-source projects (Joomla) and community programs. joomla+1

Achal Aggarwal

Summary

Work

Lead Data EngineerThoughtworks2024–Present

Sr. Staff Data EngineerChargePoint2022–2024

Data EngineerChargePoint2019–2022

Bug Squad MemberJoomla (volunteer / community)2013–2019

Senior Software EngineerChargePoint2017–2019

Engineer IIWalmartLabs India2016–2017

Application DeveloperThoughtWorks2014–2016

Education

Master of Science - MS, Computer ScienceThe University of Texas at Austin2020–2022

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer EngineeringBharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering2010–2014

Projects

Improve Form Fields (Google Summer of Code 2013)2013–2013

Hobbies

Active contributor to open-source projects (Joomla) and community programs. joomla+1