Neel Shah
Program Consultant at Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNeel Shah is a senior data architect and tech lead with over a decade of experience designing and delivering large-scale, high-throughput data and microservice systems across healthcare, finance, and enterprise web platforms. Currently a Program Consultant at CIHI in Ottawa, he has a proven track record building Python/PySpark/FastAPI systems that process millions of transactions per hour and APIs that sustain high-concurrency workloads. He’s driven cloud transformations and cost-saving initiatives—virtualizing environments and optimizing infrastructure to save millions while improving availability to nearly 99.99%. Neel pairs hands-on engineering with leadership, having led agile transformations, hiring and requirements workshops, and incident responses that recovered multi-million-dollar exposures. His research background in ML and social-media health analytics (including a 94% spatial prediction accuracy) informs practical, data-driven solutions in production. Curious about science and automation, he blends rigorous academic training with pragmatic system design to turn complex requirements into reliable, auditable platforms.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, 8.88, Master's degree, Information Technology, 8.88 at Gujarat Technological UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Lakehead University
English, Hindi, Gujarati, French, Sanskrit
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Github Skills (29)
pytorch10
python10
data-science10
emoji10
emoticons10
nltk10
machine-learning10
extraction10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
jax10
natural-language-processing9
neural-network9
nlp9
partitioner7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NeelShah18/emot
Jun 2017 - Nov 2022
Open source Emoticons and Emoji detection library: emot
Contributions:6 releases, 64 commits, 25 PRs in 5 years 6 months
detection-libraryemojiextractionemoticonspython
NeelShah18/scopus-analysis-for-indian-researcher
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:1 release, 22 commits, 20 pushes in 8 months
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