Yash Jipkate
Senior Software Engineer I at LG Ad Solutions
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolYash Jipkate is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in backend and data engineering, currently at Stripe after a track record building production-grade, high-throughput services and Spark-based data platforms. He excels in designing distributed systems and ETL pipelines that balance low-latency requirements with scalability and operational reliability, using Java/Scala, Kafka, Spark/Databricks, and Kubernetes on AWS. At LG Ad Solutions he led migrations to cloud-native Databricks, implemented data quality frameworks, and tuned distributed systems for cost and performance—often owning features end-to-end and mentoring peers. His open-source contributions span front-end and full-stack work on notable projects like Kolibri and Navidrome, demonstrating a rare breadth from UI polish to backend APIs. Comfortable leveraging AI-assisted coding tools in production, he blends pragmatic engineering with a curiosity for tooling and developer experience. Based in Bengaluru, he’s seeking senior backend or data engineering roles where system design, reliability, and data platforms matter.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
French, Spanish, Japanese, English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
redux10
go10
front-end-development10
vue10
html10
react10
vue-jsx10
api-design9
restful-api9
jes9
api-rest9
sc9
ed255199
jtest9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
navidrome/navidrome
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
🎧☁️ Your Personal Streaming Service
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Yash primarily contributed to the user interface (UI) development of the Navidrome project, introducing an "Auto" theme preference and integrating it into the application's theming system. They modified and wrote tests for the `useCurrentTheme` hook. Furthermore, the user worked on allowing adding songs to multiple playlists at once and introduced a native sharing REST API. These contributions span both frontend and backend aspects of the music streaming service.
navidromeraspberry-pisubsonic-servermadsonicstreamer
learningequality/kolibri
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
Kolibri Learning Platform: the offline app for universal education
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 4 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Yash primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Kolibri Learning Platform. Their contributions included refactoring and correcting the implementation of external links to open in new tabs. They also developed and refined a new badge component, adding it to several views within the application to visually highlight new content or features. Additionally, the user updated the styling of the new badge component.
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