# Richard Mehlinger

> Vice Mayor, City of Sunnyvale

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/richardmehlinger

As a full stack engineer emphasizing in front-end development, I have strong experience with software development, and a wide range of technologies. My primary interest is in front-end development, however I am comfortable working at all levels of the stack. In addition, my background in the humanities has left me with strong analytical and communications skills.

## Work Experience
### Vice Mayor @ City of Sunnyvale
Jan 2026 – Present

### Councilmember, City of Sunnyvale, District 5 @ City of Sunnyvale
Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Kloudfuse
Jan 2025 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Observe, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Mateo

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hippo Insurance
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Infer, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, California
Full stack development on both internal and customer facing web applications. Work includes requirements gathering from internal customers, data schema design and management, REST API implementation, data presentation, UI design and implementation, and optimizing internal model building workflows. Notable accomplishments include:
 rebuilding Infer’s modeling pipeline to shorten model build time and facilitate experimentation
 building Infer’s first customer facing web portal
 designing and implementing data visualizations for evaluating model performance
 extending Reactive Coffee, the framework used to build Infer’s web UIs
As Team Lead for our internal model building application, was responsible for mentoring and providing technical leadership for three junior engineers, quarterly and sprint planning, and supporting internal users.

### Software Engineer @ Spirent Communications
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, CA
Full stack development for Spirent’s Infrastructure Test Optimization division, with an emphasis on designing, prototyping, and implementing high quality user interfaces and RESTful APIs. Work includes Django, AngularJS and other Javascript frameworks, multithreading, rapid prototyping, and data presentation.

### Web Developer @ UC Riverside Department of History
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Developed new website for the UC Riverside Department of History, working in close conjunction with faculty committee.

### Software Development Intern @ Laserfiche
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Developed and improved user-interface by debugging, adding features, and enhancing look and feel.

### Clinic Team Member @ Harvey Mudd College Department of Computer Science
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009
Worked on ODE Toolkit, a mathematical education program written in Java, as part of the Harvey Mudd College Clinic program, a year-long senior capstone project. Worked in a four-person team redesigning, refactoring, debugging, and documenting ODE Toolkit's forty thousand line Java code base. See http://www.cs.hmc.edu/clinic/ for more information about the HMC Clinic program. See http://odetoolkit.hmc.edu/ for more information about ODE Toolkit.

### Software Development Intern @ Laserfiche
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
Developed and improved user-interface by debugging, adding features, and enhancing look and feel.


## Education
### B.S. in Computer Science, History
Harvey Mudd College

### M.A. in Modern European History
University of California, Riverside


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rmehlinger
- Portfolio: http://www.rmehlinger.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-11