# Saahil Mehta

> Associate Director leading a six-person data and insights team at South Pole, a 501-person climate solutions company. Built Orca, the company's enterprise AI assistant, and the governed platform underneath it: a semantic layer on OpenMetadata, self-hosted Dagster orchestration, automated access governance and FinOps across 195 GCP projects. Author of the data strategy adopted by ExCo, with ~295k EUR a year of direct savings in its plan. Hands-on across GCP, BigQuery, Terraform, dbt, Dagster, FastAPI and LLM systems.

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## Profile

- [CV as Markdown](https://saahil.co.uk/cv.md): full work history, projects, education and skills
- [JSON Resume](https://saahil.co.uk/resume.json): the same data in JSON Resume v1 schema
- [Status JSON](https://saahil.co.uk/status.json): systems in production with dates, status and headline figures, plus release history
- [Resume PDF](https://saahil.co.uk/Saahil-Mehta-Resume.pdf)

## Pages

- [Home](https://saahil.co.uk/): summary, headline numbers, selected work
- [Experience](https://saahil.co.uk/experience): Roles from Associate Director, Data & Insights at South Pole back to Digitas and WPP in Mumbai: enterprise AI, data platforms, cloud cost and team leadership.
- [Projects](https://saahil.co.uk/projects): Orca, Orca Semantics, Orca Visuals, Data Marts Core, data access governance, FinOps and the Terraform platform migration: production systems built at South Pole.
- [Volunteering](https://saahil.co.uk/volunteering): Museum of English Rural Life visitor insight engine, Data Science Festival mentoring and the Google Developer Specialist programme.
- [Education](https://saahil.co.uk/education): MSc Data Analytics (Distinction) at Strathclyde Business School, BE Computer Engineering at the University of Mumbai, Diploma at SBMP.
- [GitHub activity](https://saahil.co.uk/github)
- [Resume](https://saahil.co.uk/resume)

## Contact

- Email: self@saahil.co.uk
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saahil-mehta
- GitHub: https://github.com/saahil-mehta
- Book a call: https://calendly.com/saahil_mehta/30min