Profile picture

Karan Mehta

Back-End Engineer
Pronouns he/him
Open Resume Email Directly

About me

Most of my career was spent in the Illinois Legislature as a communications specialist and Legislative Aide. My passion for software development came at a time when I realized that government can be so much more efficient and helpful to everyone. I'm a backend engineer that emphasizes on solving tricky problems and contributing as a team player.

Preferred locations

  • Denver, CO
  • Austin, TX
Open to other locations and/or remote work

Previous industries

  • Legislative Office
  • Public Relations and Communications

Skills

  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Heroku
  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • RSpec
  • Ruby

Currently learning

None specified

Projects

Sweater Weather

Sweater Weather

Project scope time 20 hours
Collaborators

Tools Used

  • Rails
  • Ruby

Sweater Weather is a solo back-end project to plan road trips using Ruby on Rails. This app will allow users to see the current weather as well as the forecasted weather by exposing an API that aggregates data from multiple external APIs. I was able to implement authentication which was a stretch goal.

Code Repository
Screenshot detail for project Sweater Weather
Screenshot thumbnail #1 for project Sweater Weather Screenshot thumbnail #2 for project Sweater Weather

Little Esty Bulk Discounts

Little Esty Bulk Discounts

Project scope time 40 hours
Collaborators Profile picture for Brad Breiten Profile picture for Sierra Tucker Profile picture for Jessica Grazulis

Tools Used

  • PostgreSQL
  • Rails
  • Ruby

Little Esty Bulk Discounts is a group project consisting of five developers where we used Ruby on Rails -- the app is a fictitious e-commerce platform where both merchants and admins on the site can manage inventory and fulfill customer invoices. A major learning goal was to utilize advanced active record techniques to perform complex database queries. We completed our stretch goal of successfully consuming an external API. I focused mainly on the business intelligence and API consumption.

Code Repository
Screenshot detail for project Little Esty Bulk Discounts