Ryan Mehta
Chief Technology Officer at QuoteWell
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Mehta is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Portland with 13 years of experience building backend microservice infrastructure, largely implemented in Go, Docker, and Bash. He has a track record of scaling developer platforms and cost-saving DevOps tooling across startups and larger teams—from leading engineering and instructional roles at Alchemy Code Lab to senior infrastructure work at Zipcar and Heroku. A pragmatic engineer who still writes production code, he has contributed to open-source blockchain tooling by improving RPC query handling and wallet tests in the widely used near-api-js library. He combines hands-on systems engineering with product-minded leadership, having co-founded startups and driven CI/CD, monitoring, and data-processing solutions that improved reliability and developer velocity. Surprisingly, his academic background is in philosophy, which informs a clear, analytical approach to complex technical trade-offs.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Philosophy, B.A., Philosophy at American University
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
rpc10
blockchain10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
smart-contracts9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
near/near-api-js
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
JavaScript library to interact with NEAR Protocol via RPC API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 41 reviews, 35 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `near/near-api-js` repository by adding and modifying RPC query request types. These changes involved updates to the `src/account.ts` and `src/providers/provider.ts` files. Additionally, the user made corrections to the wallet tests, ensuring correct handling of arguments. The user also addressed merge conflicts and updated the code to accommodate human-readable NEAR amounts in error messages, thereby improving the overall functionality and user experience.
apijavascript-libraryrpcethereumrpc-api
mehtaphysical/near-react-hooks
Mar 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 10 pushes in 5 months
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