Summary
Amit Mirgal is a Senior AI Engineer and founding engineer with a decade of experience building 0→1 products and shipping production software across startups and enterprise teams. Based in Canada, he blends hands-on AI engineering at IKS Health with prior founding experience at ThinkDTM and strong front-end and platform work at PayPal and RBC. He is comfortable across the stack—React/TypeScript front ends, data pipelines with Spark/Scala and Kafka, and monorepo/tooling like Turborepo and Vitest—while also mentoring teams and running production support. Amit’s background spans entrepreneurship programs and teaching, reflecting a knack for translating complex requirements into pragmatic, user-focused systems. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of moving between greenfield startup builds and large regulated environments, which gives him both speed and operational rigor.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Post graduate diploma, Computer software and database development, Post graduate diploma, Computer software and database development at Lambton College
Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship at buildspace
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Founder Institute
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi