# Mehul Daruka

> Software Development Engineer @ Amazon

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mehuldaruka

Hi! My name is Mehul and I’m a graduate from UT Austin with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics.

I'n an avid full-stack engineer with experience building out mobile & web applications in fields ranging from accessibility tech to financial systems and consumer social.

I'm deeply passionate about creating useful & beautiful products that benefit those around me, and I'm always eager for opportunities to learn new technologies and skills. Feel free to connect with me or email me at mehuldaruka32@gmail.com if you'd like to talk!

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA
• Developing accessibility features for Fire TVs, Fire Tablets and Echo Show devices

### Engineering Lead @ Texas Product Engineering Organization
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
• Created full-stack engineering curriculum and facilitated weekly coding and system design sessions for 15 new fellows
• Served as year-long mentor to fellows, providing guidance on internship recruiting and fellow projects

### Engineering Fellow @ Texas Product Engineering Organization
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
• Worked alongside designers and product fellows to create software products for local Austin businesses/organizations

Project: CloudCare
• Collaborated with Dell Children’s Medical Center to create a cross-platform application that allows for the optimization of treatment for kids with chronic diseases by tracking patient data
• Leveraged Flutter framework with AWS back-end and communicated with designers/stakeholders to discuss user needs
• Developed submission flow for daily patient symptom logs and wrote Lambda functions for storing log data in DynamoDB and user-uploaded media in S3 buckets

Project: Thinkventory
• Constructed inventory management system for Thinkery Children’s Museum in Austin, allowing over 100 employees and administrators to keep track of item orders, reservations, storage quantities and employee access lists
• Collaborated closely with a team of 3 to document technical specifications and build out platform interface with React.js supported by a Firebase (Firestore) back-end

### Software Engineer @ Dive Chat
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
• Developed mobile and web platforms for channel-based messaging application using React Native, Redux and Firebase
• Utilized cross-platform UI/UX component toolkits to build out 20+ custom interfaces, including an elaborate chat experience, event management pipeline, chat settings and thorough authentication/onboarding flow
• Secured application using database security rules and implemented push notifications and cloud tasks using Node.js serverless functions deployed to Google Cloud

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
• Spearheaded development of Speak Selection, an accessibility feature for the Fire Tablet aiding users with visual or reading impairments to have screen content spoken out
• Designed and implemented robust front-end architecture in Android consisting of gesture-drive text selection and playback controls, interfacing with TTS infrastructure for speech generation
• Minimized touch-to-speak latency by approximately 40% through improved search algorithm to retrieve accessibility node content within selection boundary specified by user

### Software Engineer Intern @ CME Group
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Built platform allowing Clearing team to generate currency delivery estimate report for foreign exchange contracts using Java Spring and JavaScript, saving business users hundreds of hours every quarter
• Developed forecasting algorithm to assess current open interest and expected values for upcoming delivery cycle
• Implemented daily UC4 job to facilitate automated migration of computed data into new database
• Constructed platform UI with JSP, jQuery and CSS, and architected back-end service and repository classes

### Software Engineer Intern @ Instok
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas, United States
• Built Chrome extension allowing users to compare product prices at 20 major departmental stores, track items and get notified of price drops
• Leveraged Axios HTTP client to make XHR requests to store APIs and parsed product pages' HTML using Cheerio and jQuery to retrieve item metadata
• Implemented ad-block detection feature prompting clients to add the extension to their respective ad-blocker's whitelist

### Mathematics Instructor @ Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Richmond, Texas, United States
• Provided personalized instruction in mathematics to students of grades K-12
• Developed customized learning plans for individual students and assessed student progress through regular evaluations


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Mathematics & Certificate in Applied Statistical Modeling
The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### High School Diploma
Stephen F. Austin High School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mehul-daruka
- Website: https://mehul-da.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22