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Kunal Vaidya

Kunal Vaidya

Software engineer — Java, data science, and developer tooling

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Dublin, Ireland
Joined June 2026
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Summary

Practical data-science and machine-learning practitioner who builds end-to-end solutions — from training models to shipping web apps and deploying them to cloud infrastructure. towardsdatascience+1
Experienced Java and backend engineer who mentors and consults on software engineering topics; combines engineering with data science skills. codementor+1
Developer focused on productivity tooling and developer experience — publishes tooling like a VS Code extension that integrates code TODOs with Trello. visualstudio
Career spans fintech and large technology firms through roles at Mastercard, IBM, and Squarespace, indicating experience in product-focused engineering teams. codementor+2

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Writing

Google Cloud Charged Me $1000 For This Mistake

July 1, 2022

A personal account describing an incident where the author was billed approximately ₹78,000 (about $1,000) by Google Cloud AutoML and the lessons learned about cloud billing and monitoring.

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Music Genre Recognition Using Convolutional Neural Networks - Part 2

February 1, 2021

Tutorial on building a Streamlit web app around a CNN music-genre recognition model and deploying it on AWS EC2 (part of a multipart tutorial series).

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Data Science Setup on Apple M1

Guide on setting up a data science environment on Apple M1 hardware.

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