About Anish Mahapatra
Anish Mahapatra is a Senior MLOps Engineer at Toast and an AI Educator. He takes data and AI systems from prototype to production, at scale for Fortune 500 teams across fintech, adtech and enterprise software, and has taught Data Science, Machine Learning and AI to over 100,000 learners.
Anish has built data infrastructure and AI/ML platforms at SAP, 7-Eleven and Toast. His work spans data engineering, machine learning, LLM-based applications and AI in production: the full path from a working prototype to something reliable enough to depend on.
He writes about it on Medium, where he is a Top Writer, and teaches on the YouTube channel AI For Dummies. He holds an MSc in Data Science with Distinction from Liverpool John Moores University, a PG Diploma in Data Science from IIIT Bangalore and a BTech in Information Technology from Manipal Institute of Technology.
Experience
- Senior MLOps Engineer, Toast (2026–Present)
- Senior MLOps Engineer, AIOps Platform Lead, SAP (2024–2026)
- Senior AI & Machine Learning Engineer, 7-Eleven (2022–2024)
- Lead Data Scientist, Mu Sigma (2018–2022)