Summary
Mehrdad Darraji is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with eight years of experience building full-stack web systems and automation for large financial services companies. A UT Austin CS graduate, he has shipped production services at Visa and Charles Schwab, improving API performance, security, and observability while automating operational workflows with Node.js, Java Spring, and CI tooling. He has hands-on experience across the web development lifecycle—from React UIs and Spring gateways to monitoring stacks like Splunk and AppDynamics—and has led efforts to stabilize authentication and end-to-end testing for critical login systems. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Mehrdad blends academic curiosity (research in robotics/vision) with enterprise-grade delivery, and consistently seeks to automate toil and improve system reliability.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology