Summary
Aayush Patel is a Director of Data Engineering based in Toronto with 8 years of experience building large-scale, real-time cloud data platforms that blend distributed systems, geospatial intelligence, and AI-driven analytics. He has progressed from data scientist and research roles to leadership at GFL, designing resilient streaming pipelines and ML-ready infrastructure for location and telemetry data. A Databricks Data & AI Summit 2023 speaker, he combines hands-on engineering with strategic platform vision to operationalize models and location-aware analytics at scale. His academic background in applied modelling and big data complements practical expertise across startups and enterprise environments, and he’s known for turning complex spatial-data problems into reliable production services.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Big Data Analytics - Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods Computer Science, Masters in Big Data Analytics - Applied Modelling and Quantitative Methods Computer Science at Trent University