# Naitik Mehta > design engineer • always building Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/naitik I'm a fearless builder. Designer since age 13, repeat founder, first hire at Memberstack (YC S20) which has processed $180M+ in payments. Now building new ideas in public. Here's my story: - Started learning design at 13 - Freelanced in middle school and made my first $ online - Skipped high school and launched a design agency instead - Built my first startup in 2nd year of uni, failed and learned a lot - Became the first hire at a startup – scaled it to $1M+ ARR (Memberstack, YC S20) - Built a recruiting service to multiple 6-figures in revenue - Now: Engineer launching new products I love building and have a deep understanding across design, growth, and now ramping up on engineering. I've received 30+ awards and support from the Internet Society, Roddenberry Foundation, Government of Canada, EO, BCBusiness, and others. Outside of it, some other interests: - Helping others win. If I can help you, let me know how. - I workout daily, rain or shine. I'm a fitness nerd (recently ran a 50km ultra-marathon in 25 days of training) - Music. I play drums and love jamming with others. Please add a note if you'd like to connect. Follow along for candid updates. ## Work Experience ### tinkering @ Stealth Jan 2025 – Present Launching new products. Products: - Voice agent for recruiting (web) - A focused home for writing on the Internet (web) - Daily, mini crossword app (iOS) - Tool to reverse engineer growth on social media (web) - Chess gameplay coach (CLI, web) ### Maker @ Crossword Chef Jan 2025 – Present Building the best mini crossword experience on iOS. 100K+ crosswords solved. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crossword-chef-daily-mini/id6504644427 ### Maker @ Minimal Linkedin Jan 2022 – Present A free Chrome extension to hide LinkedIn ads, clutter, and distractions in one-click. Linkedin's cluttered UI was bothering me, so I decided to hack on this with my friend Mohit, and we shipped the extension over a weekend. ### Fellow @ On Deck Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area On Deck is a curated community of founders and makers building ambitious companies. ### Startup Recruiting @ StartupBake Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 Recruiting engine for elite startups to hire founding engineers, designers & growth marketers. Trusted by startups funded by Y Combinator, Greylock Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Village Global, Gradient Ventures, and more. ### Design Recruiting @ StartupBake Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 Helping startup founders hire design talent. ### Design Advisory Marketplace @ StartupBake Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Launched as a side project on Friday's and weekends — a marketplace to connect founding designers with design advisors. Built in public & blogged about my journey to first revenue here: https://naitikmehta.substack.com/ ### Founding Team @ Memberstack (YC S20) Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Remote Enabling more people to create value on the internet. Add beautiful user logins & payments to any website with a line of code. Involved in growing all aspects of the company — product, positioning, marketing, customer success, operations, finance, hiring, and all the other fun stuff that comes with building startups. :) ### Design @ Memberstack (YC S20) Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote Built and designed the product experience for Memberstack 2.0. ### Growth @ Memberstack (YC S20) Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Remote Scaled 10x+ from 200 to 2,000+ paying customers supported and $20M+ in revenue enabled for online businesses. 2024 update: $80M in revenue enabled by the team 💪 ### Co-Founder, CEO @ NextBillion.org Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Vancouver, Canada Area Started as a part-time project while I was in university to help students with disabilities connect with industry mentors for guidance. Spent two years of university focusing on the company (it even evolved into my design thesis) 🎯 NextBillion.org is a social enterprise that connects talent with disabilities (physical, mental health, chronic, or neurological) to inclusive employers in tech. Our mission is to build the largest community of people with disabilities in the world. Supported 400+ people with disabilities to help them land jobs in technology. ### 25 Under 25 Recipient @ Internet Society Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area The award recognizes young individuals for using the Internet as a force for good, in light of celebrating the 25th year of the organization formed by two of the Founders of the Internet – Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn. ### Product Design Intern @ Facebook Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | London / SF Shipped products on the Business Manager team to help all global businesses organize, edit and manage brand pages at scale to serve 2 billion users. ### Mentee (Generation Design Mentorship Program) @ Andreessen Horowitz Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Generation Design (Gen.D) is a mentorship program for college design students to be able to connect with designers from leading tech companies. ### UX Designer @ Briteweb Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Vancouver, Canada Area ### Product Design Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Redmond, WA Creating and shipping designs for millions of users under the Office365 team. 💯 ### UX Design Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Redmond, WA Creating and shipping designs for millions of users under the Office365 team. 💯 ### Co-Founder @ Olive92 Studios Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Pune Area, India Co-founded Olive92 Studios, my first company/design firm at age 17 – working with 15 companies in 6 different countries. Grew revenue to 600% in the first year, winning 14 international design contests, and awarded runner-up in 26 others. ### Designer @ Various Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 | Pune Area, India / Vancouver, BC (2014 - 2016): Designer @WOO Publication: Student-run art & design publication in Vancouver, BC. (2015): Designer @Drive Digital: An award-winning digital agency based in Vancouver, BC. (2010) Assistant Designer @uAchieveIt: Worked with an ed-tech startup as a designer at age 13. ## Education ### Bachelor of Design (B.Des) in Interaction Design Emily Carr University of Art and Design ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/naitikmehta - Portfolio: https://www.naitikmehta.com/ - Portfolio: https://www.designbake.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/naitik JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/naitik/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25