Chahak Mehta
Software Engineer at Arch
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChahak Mehta is a software engineer with eight years of experience blending computational science, machine learning, and backend engineering, currently based in New York and pursuing an MS in Computational Science, Engineering and Mathematics at UT Austin. She has built production-facing data and CI/CD systems at scale—from a Neo4j-backed semantic search for HPC experiments to Kubernetes-driven continuous integration—and contributed to high-profile open-source projects like matplotlib by improving legend behavior and test coverage. Her background spans research-driven epidemic simulations and differentiable physics (MPM with JAX) as well as industry roles improving ML pipelines and dashboards at Twitter and Activision Blizzard King. Comfortable moving between research and product, she brings domain depth in nonlinear/complex systems and epidemiology alongside practical experience deploying robust data and simulation tooling.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computational Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Master's degree, Computational Science, Engineering and Mathematics at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Technology, Honors in Information and Communication Technology, Minor in Computational Science, Bachelor of Technology, Honors in Information and Communication Technology, Minor in Computational Science at Dhirubhai Ambani UniversitySecondary schooling, Secondary schooling at Shree Satya Sai Vidyalaya, Jamnagar
Github Skills (8)
data-visualizations10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
pytest10
python10
plot10
matplotlib10
data-science8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
matplotlib/matplotlib
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
matplotlib: plotting with Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:117 reviews, 32 commits, 13 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chahak primarily contributed to the `matplotlib` library by modifying and adding functionality related to the legend and its text color handling. They implemented changes to the legend behavior in scatter plots, ensuring text colors are correctly applied based on various conditions, including the use of colormaps and iterable colors. Moreover, the user added and improved test cases to validate the correct behavior of the legend, particularly focusing on how it interacts with string-based arguments for text color options. They also worked on improving the figure options dialog box.
pythondata-sciencegtkdata-visualizationplotting
97amarnathk/fmm-fft
Apr 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:10 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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