Ankit Mittal
Engineer at Citadel
Old Toronto, Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolAnkit Mittal is a seasoned engineer with 13 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure, search, and storage systems across fintech, e‑commerce, and education. He’s held senior and leadership roles at Instacart, CPP Investments, Top Hat and founded CodeReady.ca, blending product-focused engineering with platform and infra expertise. At Instacart he helped evolve Postgres-based search and storage (including vector embeddings and pgvector) and recently shifted back into product engineering for health-conscious users. Known for improving developer efficiency, reliability, and operational practices, he’s comfortable in Ruby, Go, Java and Python and has run on-call and infra teams. Based in Toronto with an IIT Bombay dual degree, he once scaled a youth coding school to 100+ students and exited the operation to pursue larger technical challenges. Not actively seeking opportunities.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Stackoverflow
9,146reputation
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55answers
10questions
django
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django-rest-framework
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lambda
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python
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iframe
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django-views
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Github Skills (90)
python10
ipython10
declarative10
javascript10
django10
api10
rest10
postgresql-database10
jupyter10
typescript10
multi-user10
django-rest-framework10
jupyter-notebook10
jupyterhub10
user-interface10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ankitml/pg_repack
Nov 2022 - Mar 2025
Reorganize tables in PostgreSQL databases with minimal locks
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
locksdatabasesdatabasepostgrespostgresql
upgrad/django-deletes
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:34 commits, 9 PRs, 25 pushes in 3 months
djangopythonsoft-deletes
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