Anish Mahapatra

Senior MLOps Engineer at Toast

Anish Mahapatra

I take data and AI systems from prototype to production, at scale for Fortune 500 teams across fintech, adtech, and enterprise software.

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Toast
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Senior MLOps Engineer
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Medium Top Writer

I'm an AI/ML engineer with several years of experience taking data and AI systems from prototype to production. I've built data infrastructure and AI/ML platforms at scale at SAP, 7-Eleven, and Toast, working with Fortune 500 stakeholders across fintech, adtech, and enterprise software.

My work spans data engineering, machine learning, data science, LLM-based applications, and artificial intelligence in production: the full path from a working prototype to something reliable enough to depend on.

I'm especially passionate about teaching people to be their very best. I believe it's better to learn than to know. I've taught Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI to over 100,000 learners and write about it on Medium, where I'm recognized as a Top Writer.

Education

  • MSc Data Science, Distinction (top 1%)Liverpool John Moores University
  • PG Diploma, Data ScienceIIIT Bangalore
  • BTech, Information TechnologyManipal Institute of Technology

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Selected work

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Experience

  1. Toast

    2026–PresentCurrent

    Senior MLOps Engineer

    Applying production AI/ML and data engineering experience to Toast’s restaurant fintech platform.

  2. SAP

    2024–2026

    Senior MLOps Engineer, AIOps Platform Lead

    Led productionization of an enterprise AIOps platform for Fortune 500 clients on Kubernetes; built MLOps/LLMOps workflows with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and MLflow, and NLP-based data anonymization pipelines.

  3. 7-Eleven

    2022–2024

    Senior AI & Machine Learning Engineer

    Built LLM-driven enterprise analytics with LangChain and real-time data pipelines on Kafka, Spark, and Databricks; led migration of large-scale tables to Delta Lake and Power BI.

  4. Mu Sigma

    2018–2022

    Lead Data Scientist

    Progressed from Data Scientist to Lead Data Scientist over four years, leading ML pipelines and data engineering for Fortune 300 clients across demand forecasting and anomaly detection.

By the numbers

100,000+
learners taught Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI.
9 years
taking data and AI systems from prototype to production.
Top 1%
MSc in Data Science with Distinction, Liverpool John Moores University.

Writing

Medium Top Writer. I've taught Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI to over 100,000 learners.

All articles on Medium

Technical interests

Production ML and LLM serving, evaluation and observability, Kubernetes-native delivery, and data contracts for real-time and batch pipelines.

Working stack

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • FastAPI
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • GitHub Actions
  • Airflow
  • Kafka
  • Spark
  • Databricks
  • DynamoDB
  • SQL
  • Splunk
  • Datadog
  • FireHydrant
  • SCONE
  • Spotify Backstage

Also exploring

  • LangChain
  • MLflow
  • ArgoCD
  • Terraform
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • vLLM
  • Vector Databases
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Snowflake

Contact

Open to conversations on AI/ML platforms, MLOps, and reliable, real-world systems.

anishmahapatra01@gmail.com