Ishika Mittal - AI Engineer & Founder of Coconut

Hi, I'm Ishika Mittal.

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Founder & CEO of Coconut. Former Amazon Robotics Engineer. I build AI/ML systems and real‑time sensor data platforms.

About

Software Engineer based in Toronto, studying Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. I enjoy building reliable systems and ML features that ship to production fast. Experience across Amazon Robotics, FlicFit AI/ML startup, Nokia, and research projects. Comfortable with React/JS, Python, Kotlin, AWS, serverless, data pipelines, and ML. Passionate about products that improve operations at scale and create real user impact.

Languages: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, C/C++, SQL
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
Libraries/ML: NumPy, Pandas, scikit‑learn, OpenCV
Frameworks: React, Flask, Node.js
Cloud & Tools: AWS (S3, Lambda, ECR), Git, Docker

Currently seeking roles in Software Engineering and AI/ML where I can deliver measurable impact quickly.

Experience

Amazon Robotics

Software Engineer Intern

Led global deployment of robotic planning infrastructure across 150+ warehouses in EU and Japan; delivered secure, cross-region SageMaker model orchestration using S3, ECR, Lambda, and IAM. Re-architected backend services for regional scaling and availability; coordinated with 3 internal teams and customers to resolve escalations and stabilize rollout within 48 hours.
Redesigned and deployed the SageMaker endpoint allocator (SmEndpointMappingHandler) used across all Amazon warehouses, replacing legacy alphabetical assignment with a scalable round-robin allocator supporting multi-zone inference; led multithreading and async workflow refactors with algorithmic optimizations.
Built a real-time operational monitoring platform — a full-stack serverless tool (React, JavaScript, Kotlin, Lambda) for debugging live warehouse events, analyzing pod allocation, and visualizing planning metrics across global fulfillment centers.
Delivered a secure access control system to the monitoring platform under Sev2 escalation, integrating role-based authorization, federated identity, and custom IAM layers to replace a deprecated tool in under 2 weeks; platform now supports 250+ internal users across multiple orgs.

Sep 2024 – Sep 2025 | Toronto, Canada