Yash Gaitonde
Software Engineer at Cursor
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYash Gaitonde is a software engineer in San Francisco with six years of experience building product infrastructure and consumer-facing systems, currently contributing to Cursor after a stint at Notion. He focuses on creating abstractions that simplify user workflows, with domain experience in payments and consumer tech and a taste for programming languages research. Early in his career he took a gap year to build a recipes marketplace and mobile app for a YC-backed grocery startup, driving rapid adoption and 60% month-over-month growth. Comfortable across product and infrastructure, he blends hands-on engineering with a research-minded approach to tooling improvements.
6 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of MichiganHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Seven Hills School
Github Skills (85)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ygaitonde/jupiter-recipe-extension
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
Chrome Extension that allows users to create recipes with grocery products sold by Jupiter
Contributions:60 commits, 4 PRs, 28 pushes in 25 days
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ygaitonde/ygaitonde
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
README.md for my Github Profile
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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