Vinit Payal
Head Of Data Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVinit Payal is a Senior Data Engineer and AI Infrastructure Lead with 10 years of experience building and scaling data-intensive SaaS platforms for startups. He currently leads AI and data infrastructure for a global performing arts intelligence platform, architecting LLM-powered extraction, multilingual semantic matching across 30+ scripts, and cost-optimized Airflow-on-EKS pipelines. He’s skilled across the stack—Python, Node.js, Kubernetes, Qdrant, MySQL/RDS and LLMs like Gemini/Ollama—and has tuned production systems to run 500+ parallel Airflow tasks with spot autoscaling and HNSW index optimizations. Previously he built core data and integration infrastructure at Tribes.AI, owning everything from API integrations to product-facing analytics and DevOps. A pragmatic engineering leader and open-source-minded contributor to the Airflow ecosystem, he combines hands-on implementation with roadmap ownership and small-team mentoring. Based in Bengaluru, he brings startup grit plus deep operational know-how in deploying ML and retrieval systems to production.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Information Technology at National Institute of Technology Raipur
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (67)
python10
etl10
automation10
mlops10
orchestration10
data-engineering10
scheduler10
elt10
data-integration10
data-pipelines10
monitor10
data-science10
workflow-engine10
apache10
dag10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vinitpayal/dotfiles
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:114 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
vinitpayal/productivity-enhancer
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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