Yash Kothari
Senior Software Engineer at Databricks
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolYash Kothari is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable, data-driven systems and AI-powered products from Bengaluru. He has driven platform transformations at Atlassian—migrating monoliths to Kotlin microservices and accelerating data delivery via optimized pipelines and Spark—before designing AI agent workflows at Hirefly to automate sales research and personalized outreach. Now at Databricks, he focuses on production-grade data and ML infrastructure, blending distributed systems know-how with practical AI engineering. An active open-source contributor, Yash has contributed meaningful Java fixes and features to the well-known JabRef reference manager, improving import/export and robustness. He combines hands-on backend development with a flair for developer productivity and reliability engineering, and enjoys turning complex data flows into resilient, fast systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bengaluru University
Stackoverflow
1,025reputation
124kreached
29answers
20questions
Github Skills (17)
debug10
javafx10
java10
javas10
ref10
front-end-development10
bibtex9
regular-expression8
testing7
latex7
angular6
dictionary6
modular-arithmetic6
overflow6
typescript6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
JabRef/jabref
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) databases
Role in this project:
Java Developer
Java DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 75 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Yash primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature implementations within the JabRef application. Their work included addressing issues related to author name formatting for MS Office exports, adding support for input methods in the GUI, and improving the application's handling of saving changes and exiting. Furthermore, the user implemented a search filter for preference options and resolved issues related to entry handling and CrossRef import functionality. They also addressed a bug causing an exception when a bib file contained the "id" field.
reference-manageracademic-publicationsjavafxlatexjavafx-desktop-apps
CaptainDaVinci/Tetris
Jun 2017 - Oct 2019
Text based tetris in C++ and ncurses library
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
ncursescppncurses-librarytext-based
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.