Shalin Mehta
Software Engineer II at Plainsight
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShalin Mehta is a software engineer with seven years of experience building production systems across AI, cloud, and database domains, and holds a dual B.S. in Computer Science and Statistics with honors from UIUC. He has shipped features at scale at Amazon and AWS, contributed QA and test automation to the lgsvl autonomous vehicle simulator, and currently works on containerized AI-powered computer vision at Plainsight while engaging with LlamaIndex. His background spans end-to-end systems—from RDS support and cloud API infrastructure to ML model deployment and real-time simulation testing—reflecting strong cross-disciplinary fluency. As a course assistant and undergraduate researcher, he taught and built tools for game physics, databases, and geometric modeling, demonstrating both pedagogy and hands-on research. He brings a pragmatic product-minded approach informed by technical product management and DAO work, able to translate ML and database research into production-ready services. Based in Seattle, he combines startup agility with enterprise engineering practices and a proven track record of improving test coverage and system reliability.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at William Fremd High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Statistics, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science and Statistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Gujarati, Hindi, English
Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
nunit10
csharp10
api-testing10
dotnet-core10
testing10
web-testing9
simulator9
webtest9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lgsvl/simulator
May 2019 - Jan 2021
A ROS/ROS2 Multi-robot Simulator for Autonomous Vehicles
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 releases, 136 commits, 3 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Shalin primarily contributed to the repository by adding and expanding unit tests for various components and modules, including simulations, clusters, and vehicles. These tests involve the use of Unity's testing framework and mock object dependencies to test web-based APIs. The user also added validation to the request body for the API. The user is also adding checks to make sure simulation status is provided when adding a simulation.
simulationcarlasimulatorunitybaidu
lgsvl/content.lgsvlsimulator.com
Feb 2020 - Aug 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 tag in 6 months
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