Yankee Maharjan is a cloud-native Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and migrating scalable backend systems across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes environments while based in Abu Dhabi. He has led core product infrastructure and feature deliveries—such as ONE checkout, Apple Pay, gift cards, and payment links—while steering migrations from managed services to containerized Kubernetes architectures and designing CI/CD pipelines. A pragmatic DevOps-minded engineer, he contributed to the popular arkade open-source marketplace by adding and improving multiple CLI tools and multi-tool download support, demonstrating a knack for developer experience. His background spans hands-on Terraform and Cloud Run migrations, serverless ML deployments, observability with Prometheus/Grafana, and API-first backend development in Python and Go. Beyond engineering, Yankee has organized meetups and created developer CLI utilities, showing a consistent commitment to community and tooling that accelerates teams.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Technology Information, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Technology Information at Sagarmatha College of Science and Technology
Contributions:8 reviews, 19 commits, 20 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Yankee made several contributions focused on adding and updating CLI tools within the `arkade` project, a marketplace for developer tools. Their work included adding the buildpacks, Open Policy Agent, Equinix Metal, and Dive CLIs, along with updating existing tools like kubectl, gh, and natscli. They also implemented multi-tool download support and added descriptions for the tools, improving the user experience and expanding the project's functionality.
Contributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 37 commits in 1 year 10 months
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