Summary
Yash Gugale is a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer with eight years of experience building resilient streaming and media systems, currently integrating advanced Video AI models at TwelveLabs. He has deep hands-on expertise across end-to-end video pipelines—VOD/LIVE orchestration, SSAI, HLS validation, multi-CDN/Origin failover, and observability—gained at Peloton and Samsung where he also led small engineering teams and standardized operational workflows. His background blends an MS in Computer Graphics Technology (visualization, VR/AR) with an MBA, enabling him to bridge technical design, product thinking, and stakeholder-facing deployments. Notably, he has shipped tooling used in production like an M3U8 linter, multilingual subtitle pipelines, and a general-purpose notification system, and he runs fast API-driven microservice templates to accelerate new media services. Based in New York, he combines low-level media engineering, cloud-native devops, and practical ML/AI integration to bring experimental video tech into customer-facing products.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
School, Science, School, Science at Loyola High School
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master of Science - MS, Computer Graphics Technology, Master of Science - MS, Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
HSC, Science, HSC, Science at Fergusson College
English, Marathi, Hindi, Marwari, Spanish