Abdeali Kothari
Chief Technology Officer at Corridor Platforms
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdeali Kothari is a CTO and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building data-driven products and analytical platforms for financial services from Bengaluru. He blends hands-on expertise in Python, big data, and machine learning with product-minded architecture, having built an analytical stack and traceable data pipelines from scratch at Corridor Platforms. Previously at American Express he operationalized ML at scale—authoring reusable tooling, training 1200+ practitioners, and shipping models used hundreds of thousands of times annually. An active open-source contributor, he has improved projects like xgboost, JupyterLab, coala and pywikibot, contributing everything from core serialization and C API fixes to CI/CD and UX improvements. Trained in Engineering Physics at IIT Madras, he pairs rigorous analytical thinking with practical engineering, and has a track record of simplifying complex Big Data workflows and enabling cross-team collaboration. A not-obvious strength: he repeatedly bridges research-grade ML work and production-grade engineering, including cloud adaptations and robust testing/CI across platforms.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Madras12th Grade Computer Science, 12th Grade Computer Science at Chettinad Vidyashram - R. A. Puram, Chennai10th Grade General, 10th Grade General at St. Michael's Academy - Gandhi Nagar, Adyar - Chennai
English, Gujarati, Hindi, Tamil, French
Github Skills (42)
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python10
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machine-learning10
bash10
ui-design10
software-quality10
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Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
coala/coala
Feb 2015 - Oct 2016
coala provides a unified command-line interface for linting and fixing all your code, regardless of the programming languages you use.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:466 commits, 156 PRs, 876 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Abdeali contributed to improving the coala project by focusing on various areas, including enhancing help text for bears and actions, improving the readability of console output, and refining the code quality. They addressed bugs and usability issues by modifying core components like the ConsoleInteractor and OpenEditorAction. Moreover, the user added features to support multiple editors, demonstrating a focus on usability and improving the overall user experience.
fixinglinterlintpythonwindows
coala/coala-bears
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
Bears for coala
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:108 commits, 28 PRs, 111 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Abdeali primarily focused on setting up and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline, along with environment configuration for the project. Their contributions include adding scripts for environment variable setup, dependency installation, and testing using pytest. The user also implemented deployment scripts for coverage reporting and added configurations for various CI platforms, including AppVeyor and Travis CI. The user also updated the necessary steps and dependencies for OSX, ensuring a smooth build in those environments.
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