Aaryan Mehta

EECS @ UC Berkeley. I ship products end-to-end — from engineering and architecture to roadmap and GTM. I care about EdTech, accessibility, and building things people genuinely rely on.

Now: Engineering Lead at BlueRobins, leading Provenance research at ACE Lab, and securing campus systems at Berkeley IT.

B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley — expected May 2028.

Experience

BlueRobins — Engineering Lead (prev. Founding SWE Intern)

Dec 2025 – Present

  • Promoted from founding engineer to Engineering Lead; lead 4 engineers across web, mobile, and AI products, owning roadmap scoping, sprint planning, and code review
  • Migrated the flagship product from a monolithic Node app to containerized microservices on AWS ECS Fargate, maintaining 99.9% uptime
  • Designed and shipped a marketplace recommendation engine — a scoring model over click-through, dwell time, and demand signals — helping drive 62% paying-customer retention
  • Architected and delivered a React Native / Expo iOS app with marketplace, live chat, and calendar integrations
  • Cut median latency of the AI research-writing agent by 85% with an incrementally-built knowledge-graph cache of sources and citations
  • Built an interactive STEM “playables” engine (react-three-fiber, p5, three.js) and RobinStudio-AI, a Python LLM backend that generates questions from teacher material
  • Shipped core platform infrastructure — auth, notifications, and scheduling — powering the flagship web app

ACE Lab @ UC Berkeley — Undergraduate Researcher & Project Lead

Feb 2026 – Present

  • Lead Provenance, a self-initiated system that tackles AI-assisted cheating on CS assignments through process-level editing telemetry and deterministic heuristics — used by 2,000+ students across 2 classes
  • Built a VS Code extension that records hash-chained, ed25519-signed logs of how code came into existence, with three-signal paste and external-change detection
  • Authored a zero-dependency log core (JCS canonicalization, hash chain, validator, ed25519 verification) that runs identically in the extension, browser, and server
  • Built an analyzer that replays sessions and surfaces high-risk submissions — cohort filtering, timeline replay, and cross-submission paste detection — cutting staff review to a single pass
  • Architected the Cloud Run deployment and shipped Canvas OAuth, a Firestore migration, and a researcher dashboard for AutoRemind, a multi-LMS deadline aggregator piloted to 1,500+ students

Berkeley IT — Information Systems Security Assistant

Jan 2026 – Present

  • Built and deployed automations bridging Jira, ServiceNow, and PeopleSoft to route security access requests end-to-end, raising the security division’s weekly throughput by 48%
  • Conduct regular security audits and develop improved per-role permissioning across systems serving 60,000+ users
  • Manage end-to-end system access under strict university data policy while maintaining rigorous technical documentation

ZNotes Foundation — Board of Advisors (prev. People Lead, Community Lead)

Mar 2023 – Present

  • Advise technical and community strategy for a global EdTech platform serving 500,000+ active users
  • Previously led 30+ interns across 20+ countries and 3 sub-teams, driving 160% annual community growth
  • Lead developer on a Discord bot and admin portal processing 5M+ messages/year for 50,000+ members; led a team of 4 to ship 23 features and 45+ commands in two years

AllSpark — ML & NLP Development Intern

Oct 2023 – Sep 2024

  • Built transcript-generation and NLP pipelines that extract key insights from educational audio
  • Researched hallucination prevention and fine-tuned prompting strategies across large language models

Sasken Technologies — Software Development Intern

Jul 2024

  • Built an RFID-based tracking solution for an overseas client on Microsoft Azure
  • Contributed code in a fast-paced Scrum team environment

Custom Apps & Solutions — UI/UX Development Intern

May 2022 – Jun 2022

  • Designed and integrated responsive reporting dashboards in a live ERP platform
  • Optimized backend integration to improve system performance and user experience

Projects

Provenance — Academic-Integrity Telemetry System

2026

  • Built a VS Code recorder that captures a tamper-evident log while a student works, paired with a full-stack analyzer for course staff to ingest, score, and review logs at scale
  • Designed a zero-dependency log core with JCS canonicalization, a hash chain, and ed25519 manifest verification, running identically in the extension, browser, and server
  • Implemented three-signal paste detection, timeline replay, a heuristics-tuning UI, and cross-submission paste detection to cut staff review to a single pass
  • Deployed to 2,000+ students across 2 classes, with a standalone offline mode that runs entirely in-browser

Facet — Feature-Governance Platform

Apr 2026

  • Built a platform where teams spend a monthly allowance of funding units to crowdfund features, auto-promoting a request to committed the moment it hits its goal
  • Deployed to production at a B2B CRM/ERP serving 500+ enterprise clients
  • Engineered funding as one atomic transaction across monthly allowance and Stripe credit buckets to prevent double-spend under concurrent backing
  • Built solo end-to-end with Next.js 16, Prisma + PostgreSQL, Auth.js v5, Stripe, and Tailwind v4 — plus a whitelabel config for self-deployment

TechNetra — Patented Assistive Hardware

Aug 2023 – Jun 2025

  • Engineered a real-time print-to-audio assistive learning aid using OCR, TTS, and Raspberry Pi
  • Secured a Design Patent from the Govt. of India and published in IJSRSET, a peer-reviewed journal
  • Integrated a tactile enclosure designed for non-sighted users and piloted units with nonprofits to validate real-world accessibility impact

GGGarba Platform — Event Operations Platform

Sep 2025 – May 2026

  • Built a competition-management system in Flask, SQLite, and Tailwind handling registration and scheduling for 500+ participants and attendees
  • Directed technical operations, livestream workflows, and media systems during high-pressure competition weekends
  • Developed REST APIs to synchronize announcements and communications across platforms

Musical Charcuterie — Spotify Taste Visualizer

2025

  • Generates a curated 20-song “charcuterie board” capturing the range of your Spotify listening
  • Built with Python and Flask against the Spotify Web API

Leadership

Golden Gate Garba — Director

May 2026 – Present

  • Run the entire competition workflow — board hiring, team structure, logistics, sponsor relations, programming, and competition-weekend execution
  • Hire, onboard, and lead a 30-person board across multiple committees, delegating major workstreams while staying hands-on with critical decisions
  • Own venue, scheduling, partnerships, communications, and on-the-ground execution

CS Undergraduate Association (CSUA) — Secretary / Treasurer (prev. Outreach Chair, Industrial Relations Officer)

Sep 2025 – Present

  • Manage financials, internal records, and operational continuity across officer transitions as Secretary / Treasurer
  • Previously led recruitment drives and sponsorship relations as Outreach Chair and Industrial Relations Officer, growing funding and corporate engagement
  • Partnered with startups and major tech sponsors to market events to the Berkeley engineering community

California Informatics Competition (CALICO) — Logistics Director (prev. Logistics Officer)

Sep 2025 – Present

  • Manage operations for a programming competition with 2,200+ competitors as Logistics Director
  • Raised $1k+ in sponsorships and coordinated team communications for a seamless event

Unit 3 Hall Association — VP of Programming

Aug 2025 – May 2026

  • Managed a $10k budget to plan and execute large-scale community events
  • Led programming initiatives that fostered engagement across a large residential community at UC Berkeley

Coursework

Computer Science

  • CS 61AStructure & Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • CS 61BData Structures & Algorithms
  • CS 61CMachine Structures (Computer Architecture)
  • CS 70Discrete Mathematics & Probability Theory

EE / Data / Math

  • EECS 16ADesigning Information Devices & Systems I
  • EECS 16BDesigning Information Devices & Systems II
  • DATA 100Principles & Techniques of Data Science
  • MATH 54Linear Algebra & Differential Equations

DeCal

  • CS 198Linux System Administration

Writing

The Cost of Efficiency

Mar 9, 2026

On trading the wide-eyed excitement of a kid who drew dragons for the quiet competence of someone who can finally build them — and going looking for the dragons again.

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