Soham Mehta
Founder, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Interview Kickstart
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSoham Mehta is a founder and Chief Product & Technology Officer with over a decade of experience building and scaling engineering teams and developer-focused products, most recently leading Interview Kickstart to help thousands of engineers advance their careers. His career spans early roles at Microsoft and ISRO, impactful stints at eBay and six formative years at Box where he rose to Director of Engineering, and hands-on startup experience that taught him product-market humility. A pragmatic generalist, he blends deep systems and full-stack expertise with strong people leadership and a focus on developer tooling—evidenced by open-source contributions to prominent Ethereum projects like Hardhat and TypeChain. Based in Mumbai, he pairs academic rigor from USC with a founder’s appetite for experimentation and a preference for building “trustless” developer primitives one commit at a time.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Drop Out Artificial Intelligence, PhD Drop Out Artificial Intelligence at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science and Engineering at L.D. College of Engineering
English
Stackoverflow
31reputation
1kreached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
solidity10
testing10
ethersjs10
typescript10
ethereum10
blockchain10
typescript-types10
smart-contracts10
typescripts10
hardhat10
test-runner9
runner9
job-runner9
tasker9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
dethcrypto/TypeChain
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
🔌 TypeScript bindings for Ethereum smart contracts
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 97 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Soham primarily contributed to the `typechain` repository, focusing on TypeScript bindings for Ethereum smart contracts. They refactored and updated the codebase for Ethers v5, including changes to import statements and function signatures. The contributions involved modifying code generation, including the addition of new helper methods and refactoring of existing code.
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NomicFoundation/hardhat
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Hardhat is a development environment to compile, deploy, test, and debug your Ethereum software.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Soham primarily contributed to the `hardhat-ethers` plugin, adding and refactoring the `deployContract` helper function. They implemented tests for this new functionality, ensuring its proper operation with various configurations, including default and custom signers, and constructor arguments. Furthermore, the user refactored test cases and the underlying logic, demonstrating a focus on both feature development and thorough testing within the Hardhat ecosystem. They also contributed to documentation changes.
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