Aaryan Mehta

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 2,800+ students across 4 classes
• Built tamper-evident recorders for VS Code (TypeScript), Neovim (Lua), and JetBrains (Kotlin) that record 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 across every recorder, the browser, and the server
• Built an analyzer that replays sessions and surfaces high-risk submissions — cohort filtering, timeline replay, and cross-submission paste detection — plus a Python Gradescope gateway for incremental multi-class sync, 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 – Aug 2026

• 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%
• Conducted regular security audits and developed improved per-role permissioning across systems serving 60,000+ users
• Managed 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

Provenance — Academic-Integrity Telemetry System

2026

• Built tamper-evident recorders across four editor ecosystems — VS Code (TypeScript), Neovim (Lua), and JetBrains (Kotlin) — each capturing an identical, format-compatible log while a student works
• Designed a zero-dependency log core with JCS canonicalization, a hash chain, and ed25519 manifest verification, running identically across every recorder, the browser, and the server
• Built a full-stack analyzer plus a Python Gradescope gateway that incrementally syncs submissions across classes, with three-signal paste detection, timeline replay, and cross-submission matching to cut staff review to a single pass
• Deployed to 2,800+ students across 4 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

SpaceXAI — Campus Lead

Aug 2026 – Present

• Lead SpaceXAI community development on the UC Berkeley campus in direct collaboration with the SpaceXAI team, promoting Grok, the Grok bot, and Cursor to student builders
• Organize events and hands-on workshops that get students building on the product suite
• Source campus partnerships and sponsorships, connecting student organizations and hackathons with SpaceXAI resources

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

Computer Science 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

How a Zipper Works

Sep 3, 2026

On the illusion of explanatory depth, forty-two college application essays, and what it means that the most confident account of me ever written was produced by somebody who had never once been contradicted.

Names on a Page

Aug 19, 2026

On a decade of characters who lived on a bicycle, the lockdown that ended them, and why the only public evidence of me as a writer is the thing that cost me the rest.

40× faster ingest in a weekend (and chasing the bottleneck down to Postgres)

Jun 21, 2026

Notes from a weekend profiling Provenance's submission ingest, finding an O(n²) bug hiding in plain sight, and chasing the cost around the pipeline until it landed on the database.

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.