Mehdi Karamnejad
Co-Founder at Valley Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMehdi Karamnejad is a seasoned software leader and founder with 12 years of experience building scalable web and cloud-native products from startup to enterprise. As Co-Founder of ARKI and founder of Valley Labs, he applies data-driven, event-driven architectures to make design workflows faster, less tedious, and more compliant for architects. Previously a senior engineering manager at Salesforce and lead engineer at BuildDirect, he has hands-on experience architecting microservices, delivery pipelines, and high-traffic eCommerce platforms. Mehdi combines team leadership—managing distributed teams of 15+ engineers—with deep technical chops across Rails, Node.js, Docker, and AWS. His academic background in Interactive Arts & Technology and early VR/biofeedback research hints at a long-standing interest in human-centered, applied technologies. Based in San Francisco, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a pragmatic focus on automation, quality, and product-market fit.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training UniversityAssociate's degree Computer Software, Associate's degree Computer Software at Shamsipour Technical and Vocational CollegeMaster's degree Interactive Arts & Technology, Master's degree Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University
English, Persian, French
Stackoverflow
165reputation
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Github Skills (160)
postgresql10
rest-framework10
material-ui10
javascript-framework10
microservices10
react-components10
javascript10
django-rest10
ionic10
mui10
orm-library10
django-admin10
nest10
scalable10
database10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
asemoon/team
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
asemoon/asemoon.github.io
Feb 2020 - Mar 2023
Gatsby starter for creating a blog
Contributions:64 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 1 month
gatsbyreactgatsbyjsgatsby-starter
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