Hi there, I'm Yoga 👋
I'm a Software Engineer and Master's student at New York University, passionate about building scalable web applications, exploring big data, machine learning, cloud & distributed systems and creating products that make lives easier.
- Current: M.S. in Computer Science @ NYU (Class of 2026), Research Assistant @ NYU Stern
- Past: Software Engineer at Freshworks (Payments Team) | Software Engineer at NYU High Performance Computing Lab
- Avid sci-fi reader | Contributor to NASA Citizen Science projects
Research Assistant | NYU Stern School of Business Jun 2025 – Present
- Migrated large-scale datasets from MySQL to DuckDB using R, boosting query performance by 99.8% and accelerating data analysis workflows.
- Partnered with the DHL Global Connectedness team (Germany) to design interactive analytics dashboards for the Global Connectedness Tracker Report (Oct 2025)
- Built Grafana dashboards for real-time data monitoring, cutting issue detection time by 50% and improving decision-making speed across teams.
Software Engineer Intern | Metastate Bio Inc.
May 2025 – Aug 2025
- Built Angular-based dashboards visualizing synthetic biotechnology simulations, enabling researchers to track 100+ experiments in real-time and improving decision-making speed by 30%.
- Fixed critical database issues in Java and MySQL, restoring data accuracy for Z+ research projects.
Software Engineer (Part-Time) | NYU IT High Performance Computing Lab
Feb 2025 – May 2025
- Developed internal research portal for NYU researchers using Node.js, TypeScript and Docker, integrating 10+ backend APIs and improving portal usability.
- Designed CI/CD pipelines in GitLab, reducing deployment time from hours to under 15 minutes.
Founding Engineer (Part-Time) | Stealth AI Startup
Jan 2025 – May 2025
- Frontend development using React for a CPG e-commerce site.
- Optimized performance by 35% and implemented responsive design.
Software Engineer | Freshworks
Feb 2021 – Mar 2023
- Worked on building the SaaS CRM web application 'Freshservice', using Ruby, React, JavaScript, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Collaborated with a 15-member team in an Agile environment following SDLC, creating a new subscriptions module, developing REST APIs and handling external webhooks, thereby creating a seamless experience for payments.
- Executed the seamless migration of 70,000 customer accounts across 14 global sites, to the new billing module.
- Mentored two graduate engineering trainees, assigned tasks and reviewed the code in their pull requests.
- Resolved 100+ bugs and prioritized completing cross-site scripting security issues.
- Improved application’s test coverage from 70% to 85% by writing RSpec and mini test cases for APIs.
Languages:
Python, Java, C, R, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript
Web Development:
Node.js, Django, Flask, React, Angular, FastAPI, REST APIs, HTML/CSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
Cloud & DevOps:
Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, Git, Bash, AWS (EC2, S3, Lex, Lambda, DynamoDB, OpenSearch), GCP
Tools & Platforms:
Git, GitHub, GitLab, Linux/Unix, Grafana, Figma, Notion, Jupyter Notebook
Always open to collaborating on meaningful open-source projects or new ideas.
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