Summary
Pooja Mehta is a product-focused technology leader with 4 years of product and engineering experience, now a Member of Product Staff at OpenAI based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She blends applied AI/ML, industrial IoT, and cloud microservices expertise with a strong enterprise product track record from roles at Mural and Slack and early systems and compliance work at Box. Pooja advises startups and invests as a limited partner, signaling a strategic mindset that spans roadmap execution to company-building. Her background in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from UC Berkeley informs a data-driven approach to product design and operational scaling. Notably, she transitioned quickly from implementation and consulting roles into senior product leadership, bringing a pragmatic focus on shipping reliable, secure enterprise platforms.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, B.S. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley