Summary
Purav Mehta is a Software Engineer II based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems and developer-facing APIs. He has shipped production services at Google that cut operational costs by an estimated $250K per quarter and migrated legacy monolith traffic into performant C++ microservices. At Aurora he focuses on map creation systems, and his background spans C++, Java, Dojo/JavaScript, and cloud-backed services from MATLAB Production Server to AWS Aurora. Purav pairs strong academic training—a MS in Computer Science from USC and a high-performing BE in Computer Engineering—with hands-on cross-functional collaboration in UX and quality engineering. He has a track record of reducing technical debt through clear design documents and pragmatic API work that improves operational efficiency. Known for tackling tricky ingestion and metadata consistency problems, he brings a practical, systems-oriented approach to complex production challenges.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.87/4, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.87/4 at University of Southern California
HSC, Science with Computer Science specialization, 86.15%, HSC, Science with Computer Science specialization, 86.15% at KJ Somaiya Junior College of Science and Commerce
ICSE, 91.6%, ICSE, 91.6% at PG Garodia English High School
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 8.79/10, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, 8.79/10 at Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
English, Hindi, Gujarati