Yash Chowdhary
Software Engineer at Zendesk
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolYash Chowdhary is a software engineer at Zendesk with nine years of experience building backend systems and developer tools across cloud and enterprise domains. He holds a Computer Science degree from NUS with specialisations in Computer Security and AI and is an MSc AI candidate at the University of Edinburgh, blending strong academic foundations with practical engineering. His background includes impactful internships at Amazon and Autodesk where he developed internal tooling, SDKs, and metrics pipelines using cloud services and diverse languages. At Goldman Sachs he worked on margin, collateral, and valuation systems, demonstrating domain fluency in financial infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, he improved code quality and consistency in the widely used RepoSense project by refactoring terminology and removing dead code to boost maintainability. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who brings clarity to complex systems and a penchant for tooling that accelerates team decision-making.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science with Computer Science, 98.2%, High School, Science with Computer Science, 98.2% at Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Sr. Sec. SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.59, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.59 at National University of Singapore
English, Hindi, Marathi, French
Github Skills (12)
code-standards10
javas10
refactoring10
standardized10
java10
standardization10
repository-pattern9
package-repository9
repo-management9
git-repository9
git9
code-review3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
reposense/RepoSense
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
Contribution analysis tool for Git repositories
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 37 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Yash primarily focused on refactoring the codebase, standardizing terminology, and removing unused code. They renamed instances of "dashboard" to "report" throughout the project, enhancing code readability and consistency. Additionally, the user updated the codebase to use a constant for the base URL, improving maintainability. Furthermore, they removed unused code across multiple files, contributing to code quality.
repositoriescontribution-analysisrepository-managementgit-statisticsauthor-statistics
CS2103JAN2018-W15-B4/main
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
ClubConnect - Desktop Application
Contributions:4 releases, 121 PRs, 60 pushes in 1 month
desktop-applicationelectrondesktop
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