Summary
Mehul Desai is a hybrid retail operations leader and self-taught software engineer with nine years of experience blending frontline management at Circle K with full-stack development projects for clients on Upwork. He brings hands-on expertise across React, Node/Express, SQL, and CI/CD practices, and has applied agile and microservice principles to deliver user-focused web applications. As a Retail Store Manager he leads hiring, training, and vendor relationships while leveraging analytical and automation-minded skills developed from prior roles in QA and front-end development. His background includes mentoring teams, building Apache Flex modules, and troubleshooting performance and SEO issues—skills he translates into process improvements and measurable store performance gains. Based in Wallaceburg, Ontario, he maintains an active portfolio and GitHub where he prototypes ideas into live projects, demonstrating a rare combination of customer-facing leadership and practical engineering chops.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, First Class, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, First Class at BIRLA VISHVAKARMA MAHA VIDHYLAYA(SFI), V.V.NAGAR 008
Diploma, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, 3.7, Diploma, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, 3.7 at Seneca College
English, Hindi, Gujarati