Kaitav Mehta
Principal Data Engineer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKaitav Mehta is a Principal Data Engineer with eight years of experience building scalable data platforms and production ML pipelines across GCP, Azure, and Hadoop ecosystems. He combines strong academic foundations—a 4.0 MS in Computer Science—with hands-on wins in AI fellowships, hackathons (including first place at a Microsoft x Loblaw computer vision event), and Kaggle work to bridge research and production. At President's Choice Financial he led data mesh initiatives, automated compliant data purge processes, and used LLM agents to accelerate delivery, while driving customer acquisition through robust ETL and vendor integrations. His background spans end-to-end engineering from Java microservices and Spring Boot to Airflow-orchestrated BigQuery pipelines and secure cloud automation via Terraform and Hashicorp Vault. Unusually, he also shipped a consumer-facing Ionic app with 100k+ downloads early in his career, reflecting an ability to translate technical projects into widely adopted products. Based in Toronto, he thrives at the intersection of ML, data engineering, and pragmatic delivery.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of WindsorBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Government Engineering College,Gandhinagar
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Github Skills (5)
apache-spark6
sorting6
coding1
science1
computer-science1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mehta128/Insight-Ganscape-Studio
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
GANSCAPE STUDIOS- 3 week project, part of Insight.
Contributions:30 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
studios
KaitavMehta95/GAN-Evolution
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 2 pushes in 2 months
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