Summary
Ritam Mehta is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems and a recent focus on backend engineering. He brings practical expertise across Python, C++, React, Django, Flask, and Ruby on Rails, and has shipped production services at startups and mission-driven organizations like Marker Learning, Orchard, and theSkimm. Ritam pairs product-minded engineering—designing performant REST APIs, integrating authentication and paid membership models, and automating API docs—with a teacher’s instinct for clarity, honed by years developing CS curriculum and training NYC teachers. Comfortable in both startup and civic-tech contexts, he combines hands-on coding with cross-functional collaboration and an eye for consistency and performance. An occasional linguistics maverick, he also lists Eppsparanto among his interests, hinting at a playful curiosity beyond code.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Michigan
English, French