About


Darshak Mehta

Darshak Mehta

Hello, there!
I am currently employed as a Senior Software Engineer at Optum Digital, based in San Francisco. My role primarily revolves around being a Front-end Developer, where my key focus is on meticulously crafting efficient and reusable components to significantly enhance the overall user login/registration experience. In addition to my professional experience, I hold a Master's degree in Computer Science from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a testament to my robust educational foundation and unwavering commitment to excellence in the field. I have a solid understanding of Agile, MVC Design Pattern, REST Architecture, Relational, and NoSQL databases. I have a strong understanding of Data Structures and Algorithms and am proficient in developing Object-Oriented Applications. I have hands-on experience in developing scalable cross-browser web and mobile applications and mobile-first designing. I am a well-organized person with good interpersonal skills and high work ethic.


Education


Master of Science in Computer Science

DEC 2018
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
GPA: 4.0/4.0

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering

MAY 2016
Thakur College of Engineering and Technology
GPA: 9.02/10.0

Experience


Optum Digital formerly Rally Health

MARCH 2019 - PRESENT
Senior Software Engineer - San Francisco, CA, USA
Responsibilities
  • Led the development of a responsive, multilingual, & accessible MVP, deploying it for nearly 17M users.
  • Effectively managed the deployment of new product features and the maintenance of existing services.
  • Contributed to engineering processes and standards improvements to enhance efficiency and product quality.
  • Developed backend services, models, schema and writing API for client to consume using Scala and NoSQL Database.
  • Writing unit and automation tests for both UI & backend services using Jest, Webdriver IO, Robot and ScalaTes.
  • Adopted Agile with pair programming & code reviews to ensure all accepted code is consistent, efficient & reusable.
  • Provided vital production support, using Splunk & DataDog for monitoring, improving system stability & performance.

Advising Systems - UNC Charlotte

DEC 2017 - DEC 2018
Graduate Assistant - Charlotte, NC, USA
Responsibilities
  • Analyzed undergraduate student data to predict outcomes for national clinical research trial called IPASS.
  • Building Success Markers and integration with academic early alert system using CONNECT and Microsoft Excel.
  • Extrapolated data to come up with strategies for advising systems.
  • Restructured the course templates for undergraduate students using JavaScript, Excel and Adobe Acrobat.
  • Worked on building standalone application using JavaMail API to ease the process of Mail Merge.
  • Contributed in writing script to aid in integration of advising systems using Java, XPath & Selenium WebDriver.

Vistaar Digital Communications

JAN 2017 - JULY 2017
Software Engineer - Mumbai, India
Responsibilities
  • Successfully developed AirWayBill for expressrates to save time & paper cost by storing in the relational database using MySQL.
  • Built the functionality to print bill & generate barcode for Cargos using PHP & FPDF and feature for user to access & email bills.
  • Worked in a collaborative team of developers and testers and closely with business leaders, product owners, scrum masters & graphic designers by following Agile and utilized Asana as Project Management Tool and GitHub version control.
  • Redesigned User Interface for discoverbeauty to improve UX to both end users & the doctors using CSS3 and jQuery.
  • Key player for developing mobile-first responsive web-design for The Great Next using CSS3, jQuery and Photoshop document..
  • Migration of Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 3, and successfully achieved challenging task of implementing multiple jQuery versions.

Skills



  • Web Technologies & Design Styles
  • SCSS
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Bootstrap
  • REST
  • MVC
  • Programming &
    Database Technologies
  • JavaScript (ES5, ES6)
  • Java
  • C
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • Firebase
  • JavaScript Frameworks &
    Libraries
  • Node/Express/Mongoose
  • React / Redux
  • jQuery - AJAX
  • AngularJS
  • Embedded JS (EJS)
  • Webpack, Babel, Mocha
  • Tools & IDE
  • Git/Bitbucket/Jenkins
  • Sublime Text 3
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Android Studio
  • Heroku
  • Vercel
  • Tableau

Projects


Pachkhān and Choghadiya Timings

  • Developed and launched a responsive, cross-browser MVP web app attracting over 10,300 users since June 2023.
  • Used React and Material UI to build an interactive user interface, and integrated weather API for real-time data.
  • User can tap their interested beer and add to draft menu managed using React State
  • Hosted on Vercel and Integrated with GA4 for user insights to drive data-driven improvements.
Technologies: React, Material UI, SCSS, WeatherAPI, Vercel, Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
(Private) GitHub Code | Vercel (live)
JUNE 2023

BruTap

  • create-react-app for structuring the client web app and React Components with use of axios to handle browser and Node.js.
  • React Table to render beer dataset and React Router for managing the navigation.
  • User can tap their interested beer and add to draft menu managed using React State
  • Express.js to build API using HTTP methods with Mongoose Models & deployed app on Heroku with mLab D/B service.)
  • Validation of HTML5 Pages using http://html5.validator.nu/
Technologies: MongoDB - Mongoose.js ODM, Express, React, Node.js (MERN), CSS3, Herkou, mLab
GitHub Code | Heroku (live) | User Stories
FALL 2018

Swapping Auction

  • Followed MVC Design Pattern to structure the web application and EJS Template Engine with use of partials.
  • Maintained the session of the web application and validation using Express
  • Persistent Data Storage using NoSQL database structure (MongoDB with help of Mongoose ODM)
  • Cross browser compatible with Google Chrome and Firefox.
  • Validation of HTML5 Pages using http://html5.validator.nu/
Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, EJS, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB - Mongoose.js ODM
GitHub Code | Requirement and Design Document | User Manual
FALL 2018

Indecision App

  • Designed reusable User Interface Stateful and Stateless Functional Components using JavaScript Classes and React.
  • Block element Modifier methodology to style components in the front-end using SCSS and used Webpack build tool.
Technologies: React, SCSS, Webpack, ES6, JSX
GitHub Code
SUMMER 2018

Social Networking App

  • Developed Mobile Application integrated with Firebase Database which include features such as sending friend request, sharing statuses, adding and removing friends and post using Fragments and Tab Activity.
Technologies: Android, Firebase
GitHub Code
FALL 2017

THEMOVIEDB

  • Mobile App to search Movies using REST API, JSON Parsing and Recyclerview to list the results & Picasso for rendering images.
  • Wrote Java Custom comparators to sort and search Movies from the searched results to increase usability.
Technologies: Android, THEMOVIEDB Library
GitHub Code
FALL 2017

Light Rail Management System

  • Implemented SQL database for Charlotte City, with complete process of booking tickets, checking schedules & routes.
  • Designed Stored Procedures, Stored Functions and Triggers to automate the process of ticket validation.
  • Experienced in all Project phases using Agile Principles, Outlined and Prioritized User Stories.
Technologies: MySQL
GitHub Code | Project Documentation
FALL 2017

Amelioration of K-Means Algorithm

  • Enhanced K-means data Clustering Algorithm to filter the products based on rating by calculating initial centroids.
  • Reduced Number of Iterations which aid in improving the time complexity to filter products based on rating.
  • Better quality clusters were obtained after each iteration.
Technologies: Java, Node.js, MongoDB (Mongoose), Express.js, AngularJS
Video | GitHub Code | Research Paper
SPRING 2016


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