Summary
Dev Mehta is a San Francisco–based software engineer with 13 years of experience building backend and ML systems using Ruby on Rails, Python, and Postgres. He blends production-grade API and data modeling expertise with hands-on work in distributed systems and natural language processing, honed through senior engineering roles and a decade of freelance projects. At OpenGov he led system design, code review, hiring and mentoring, and today he’s engineering at Vooma while continuing freelance engagements. With a BA in Economics and regional studies from UC Berkeley and an early career in data analysis and journalism, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective that helps translate complex data and language problems into pragmatic, scalable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Economics South & Southeast Asian Studies, B.A. Economics South & Southeast Asian Studies at University of California, Berkeley