
Hi, I'm Yatiesh Mehta
A passionate mathematics student at the University of Waterloo, specializing in Statistics and Combinatorics & Optimization. Experienced in AI engineering and software development.
Education
University of Waterloo
BMath in Statistics and Combinatorics & Optimization
Aug 2023 -- Jul 2028Waterloo, ON, Canada
- Received the University of Waterloo President's Scholarship of Distinction
- Awarded Term Distinction and an Excellent Academic Standing for Fall 2023 term
Experience
AI Engineering Intern
Fractal Analytics
Jan 2025 -- Apr 2025
Remote
- Built an internal LLMOps dashboard using Streamlit and Langfuse, aggregating Azure, AWS, and GCP usage to compute 25+ FinOps KPIs and leveraging matplotlib to power 10+ real-time graphs
- Designed a modular agentic workflow with 4+ autonomous agents to support dynamic visualization, KPI alerts, and custom dashboard generation
- Engineered a cross-cloud Pricing Intelligence Tool with advanced features such as spec matching, budget guardrails, AI-powered recommendations via Ollama and Groq, based on usage patterns
PythonStreamlitLangfuseAzureAWSGCPOllamaGroq
Software Engineering Intern
Navneet Education Ltd.
May 2024 -- Sep 2024
Remote
- Directed the backend development for an AI-powered learning platform using Django Rest with JWT authentication to secure the API endpoints
- Constructed a RAG pipeline leveraging Langchain, GPT-4o, and Pinecone to query user uploaded textbooks
- Optimized efficiency in retrieval and response times with Langchain by 62% by adding metadata filtering and fine-tuning chunking parameters
- Managed file storage and retrieval using AWS S3 buckets and hosted the platform and MYSQL database on separate AWS EC2 instances, ensuring scalability and reliability
PythonDjango RestJWTLangchainGPT-4PineconeAWS S3AWS EC2MySQL
Projects

Road Object Detection System
Jan 2024 - Present
Waterloo, ON
Developed a real-time object detection system for autonomous vehicles using YOLOv8 and OpenCV. Implemented lane detection and traffic sign recognition.
PythonYOLOv8OpenCVTensorFlowNumPy

Minimalisp: A Minimalistic Lisp Variant
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
Waterloo, ON
Designed and implemented a Lisp interpreter in Python with support for basic arithmetic, list operations, and custom function definitions.
PythonLispParsingInterpreter Design

AstroPi Competition
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
Waterloo, ON
Participated in the European Space Agency's AstroPi challenge, writing code to run on the International Space Station's Raspberry Pi.
PythonRaspberry PiAstroPiSpace Science
Skills
programming
PythonC/C++BashRacketSQLUnreal EngineSchemeJavaScriptHTMLCSSDAXArduino
devTools
GitLinuxDjangoDjango RestPandasNumpyTensorFlowDockerVS Code
frameworks
PyTorchOpenCVStreamlitLangfuseLangchainYOLOv8
cloud
AWSAzureGCPAWS S3AWS EC2
databases
MySQLPinecone