Mehul Kar

hi@mehulkar.com
Software Engineer
641-814-6200

I work on Turborepo and related features on the Vercel platform.

Vercel

August 2022 - Present

I'm working on the Turborepo team, building the infrastructure for Frontend teams to do their best work.

Apple - Apple Media Products team

October 2017 - June 2022

I contributed to Apple's media services experience and presence on the web. Highlights:

  • Launched tv.apple.com.
  • Reduce Javascript bundles on AppStore, Books, and Podcast web preview pages by 50%
  • Maintained 20+ shared UI libraries and business logic for the web organization.
  • Introduced web performance tooling on pages representing 10+ million page views per day.
  • Rolled out webp image format across millions of web pages and images.
  • Contributed to Music, TV, and iTunes macOS apps and music.apple.com.

Apple - Application Program Tools team

December 2015 - October 2017

I worked on custom Continuous Integration and dashboard software for the Final Cut Pro, Garageband, and Photos teams. Highlights:

  • Built regression analysis UI for test suites running against daily macOS builds.
  • Modernized Python macOS daemon (svn to git migration, versioned releases, and unit testing).
  • Interactive CLI tooling to setup and manage labs running the software.

Apple - PDCodelabs team

November 2013 - December 2015
  • Workflow management software for the Industrial Design studio.
  • Issue tracker for the Manufacturing Operations team.
  • Audio codec configuration software.

MochaLeaf - Web Developer

April 2012 - November 2013

This was my first professional job after a developer bootcamp. I worked on contract jobs for Apple, Google, among other companies using tech stacks including Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, and Django.

Education

Dev Bootcamp February 2012 - March 2012

8 week intensive programming bootcamp focusing on Ruby on Rails.

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater September 2007 - May 2011

BBA, Finance - Summa Cum Laude