Brag Document/Overview

Overview

The stuff a resume can't capture.

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Mahek Sota

Software Engineer — Backend & AI

I tend to build the things that aren’t on the roadmap yet, but quickly become necessary. My resume explains what I’ve shipped. This page shows you how I operate while shipping, stepping into debugging threads early, improving systems that create friction, and making sure both people and infrastructure move forward.

Oxford, MSMS in CS, USCUniversity of Mississippi

Why this exists

Resumes summarize outcomes. Performance reviews summarize scope. They don’t capture the smaller, unassigned contributions, mentoring a teammate through infrastructure issues, automating repetitive workflows, or tightening systems that were technically “working” but not efficient. This page documents that context, how I think, how I take ownership, and how I approach building beyond the task at hand.

12+

Projects Shipped

50M+

Records Processed

99.999%

System Uptime

25%

Query Time Reduced

Things I reach for

Not a bingo card — these are the tools I've actually shipped production code with.

PythonGoJavaTypeScriptRuby on RailsPostgreSQLRedisKafkaDockerKubernetesTerraformAWSGCPFastAPIDjangoReactNext.jsSpring BootGraphQLgRPCLLM/RAGPrometheus

University of Southern California

M.S. in Computer Science — GPA 3.5/4.0

Aug 2022 – May 2024

Mumbai University (TSEC)

B.Tech in Computer Science — GPA 9.5/10.0

Aug 2018 – May 2022