Summary
Dev Parikh is a software engineer and angel investor based in Canada with eight years of hands-on experience across startups and large tech firms. Currently balancing roles at Bloomberg and a parody startup Solaris Pea, he brings practical backend and systems experience honed through internships at Amazon, Yugabyte, Motive, and Watershed. A University of Waterloo computer science alumnus, he has focused on core database and infrastructure work early in his career, including a role as Core Database Developer. Dev combines product-minded engineering with a founder’s curiosity, investing in and experimenting with new ventures while still shipping code. Colleagues know him for switching effortlessly between deep technical work and high-level startup thinking. He’s the kind of engineer who still “likes to code sometimes” but leverages that craft to inform investment and strategic decisions.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Advance Placement Regional Program, High School Diploma, Advance Placement Regional Program at Central Peel Secondary School
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Gujarati