Vinayak Mehta
Staff Software Engineer at Clarify
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolVinayak Mehta is a Staff Software Engineer based in Paris with 12 years of experience building data-intensive products and developer tooling, most recently taking June from 0 to 1 as a founding engineer and shipping weekly improvements. He blends full-stack engineering with data infrastructure expertise—having built replication tools and a notebook-centric platform at Blinkit and contributed to national-scale data dashboards at SocialCops. An active open-source maintainer, Vinayak has improved user-facing tooling like Camelot/Excalibur for PDF table extraction and contributed fixes and features to flagship projects such as scikit-learn and Astropy. He likes to demystify systems publicly—documenting deep dives like Python C extensions during a Recurse Center residency—and often writes about his learnings. Colleagues know him for shipping pragmatic, well-documented solutions that span frontend UI polish to backend parsing and build automation.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
St. Cecilia's Public School, New DelhiBachelor of Technology Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology Computer Science and Engineering at Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering, Delhi
English, Hindi, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
algorithm10
markdown10
algorithms10
javascript10
bootstrap10
python10
api-design10
data-science10
scikit10
css10
machine-learning10
user-interface10
pdf-parsing10
astropy10
markdown-it10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
vinayak-mehta/present
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
A terminal-based presentation tool with colors and effects.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 159 commits, 31 PRs in 22 days
Contributions summary:Vinayak contributed significantly to the development of a terminal-based presentation tool. Their contributions included adding core features such as a markdown parser, a main entry point, and a slideshow functionality. They also enhanced the project by implementing support for custom colors and effects, demonstrating an understanding of both the application's backend and frontend aspects.
terminalpresentationterminal-basedcli
atlanhq/camelot
Jun 2016 - Oct 2019
Camelot: PDF Table Extraction for Humans
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:407 commits, 73 PRs, 216 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Vinayak significantly enhanced the `camelot` project, a PDF table extraction library, through a series of commits. Their contributions included improvements to grid detection algorithms, the addition of new features such as the ability to flag super and subscripts, and support for specifying table regions. Furthermore, the user refactored the codebase by integrating new methods. These improvements likely involved interactions with the backend logic of PDF parsing and potentially with frontend code for debugging and visualizing tables, which suggests a full-stack development focus.
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