Anish
Anish Mehta

Anish Mehta

Principal Full Stack Engineer

๐Ÿ“ Durham, NC

Hi! I'm Anish Mehta โ€” Principal Full Stack Engineer based in Durham, NC.

Specializing in Angular, NestJS, React, and Next.js with a decade of experience building complex financial platforms. Apollo GraphQL certified. Currently applying AI engineering to equity research and financial planning.

Feel free to ask me anything, or pick a question below to get started.

Experience

Principal Full Stack Engineer

Fidelity Investments ยท Durham, USA

March 2022 โ€” Present

An intuitive platform translating complex financial goals of ~3 million monthly users into clear, actionable strategies โ€” modeling, tracking, and adjusting progress toward major milestones.

  • Led strategic migration of 40+ applications within an Nx monorepo from GraphQL to REST, collaborating with architecture teams to define enterprise standards
  • Part of technical leadership team managing development of a feature-rich financial planning application using Angular, NestJS, GraphQL, REST and TypeScript
  • Own the full development lifecycle for user-facing features, from API schema design in NestJS & GraphQL to UI development in Angular
  • Designed and implemented BFF GraphQL services architecture, improving system scalability and maintainability
  • Implemented real-time interactive features using GraphQL subscriptions and Server-Sent Events
  • Led a high-performing team of 8 developers while providing technical oversight to a broader community of 30+ engineers
  • Championed code reusability by developing shared libraries within Nx Monorepos, reducing redundancy across applications

Principal Systems Analyst

TechGroup America Inc. ยท Boston, USA

March 2021 โ€” March 2022
ClientFidelity Investments

A retirement planning tool using sophisticated financial modeling to project future wealth and generate personalized savings and investment roadmaps.

  • Developed web pages and components using Angular
  • Designed and developed GraphQL APIs to interact with backend services
  • Created reusable components, custom modules, directives, pipes and services in Angular
  • Created complex orchestration and sequence diagrams to depict system interactions

Principal Systems Analyst

TechGroup America Inc. ยท Boston, USA

January 2018 โ€” March 2021
ClientFidelity Investments

A web tool using proprietary methodology to generate optimal, prioritized plans for allocating savings across emergency funds, HSAs, 401ks, IRAs and other investment accounts.

  • Gathered business requirements from Fidelity's Workplace business sponsors
  • Assisted Tech Lead and Systems Architect in preparing the System Framework
  • Created user stories for frontend development and backend integration
  • Facilitated story grooming and iteration planning sessions, continuously resolving blockers

Systems Analyst

TechGroup America Inc. ยท Smithfield, USA

March 2017 โ€” January 2018
ClientFidelity Investments

A comprehensive wealth management platform migrating the entire advisory workflow from spreadsheets into a unified ecosystem for HNW client lifecycle management.

  • Created scoping documents and worked closely with Solutions Architect on Information Architecture
  • Decomposed complex Excel calculation engines into rules for Functional Requirement Documents
  • Created high-level business flows, orchestration and sequence diagrams
  • Worked with internal & external integration partners on integration plans

Systems Analyst

Incept Data Solutions ยท Smithfield, USA

September 2015 โ€” March 2017
ClientFidelity Investments

A sophisticated estate planning portal for high and medium-net-worth clients, orchestrating the entire preparatory phase from financial snapshot to attorney matching.

  • Gathered business & system requirements, developed BRDs, FRDs, and Non-Functional Requirements
  • Documented process flow diagrams using MS Visio for current and future state of applications
  • Led requirements gathering and coordinated design creation with the UX team
  • Assisted Scrum Master in conducting scrum events and sprint planning

Skills

frontend

AngularReactNext.jsTypeScriptJavaScriptHTMLCSSTailwind CSSRxJSNGRXApollo Client

backend

NestJSNode.jsExpress.jsGraphQLREST

tools

Nx MonorepoJIRAConfluenceMuralRally

methodologies

AgileWaterfallTailored SDLC

functional

Estate PlanningPrivate WealthFinancial PlanningRetirement Planning

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Suffolk University ยท Boston, USA

Aug 2013 โ€” May 2015
Real EstateInvestment Banking & AnalysisFixed Income SecuritiesVenture Capital Finance

Bachelor of Commerce

Gujarat University ยท India

June 2008 โ€” March 2011
Adv. Accounting & AuditingAdv. StatisticsBusiness LawCorporate Finance

Certifications

Graph Developer - Professional

Apollo GraphQL

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Oct 2022

Graph Developer - Associate

Apollo GraphQL

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Mar 2022

Projects

Portfolio

Personal portfolio with AI chatbot powered by Claude API

Next.jsReactTailwind CSSTypeScriptClaude API

Stock Tracker

Watchlist and stock tracking dashboard with real-time data

Next.jsReactRechartsPolygon.io

Contact

I'm open to new opportunities. Whether you have a question, a role, or just want to connect โ€” feel free to reach out.