Yash Kulshrestha
Engineer, Route53 at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYash Kulshrestha is an engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems and front-end experiences, currently working on Route53 at AWS after several years on Amazon ECS. Trained as an Electrical and Computer Engineer at Ohio State, he brings hardware and HDL intuition to software problems, enabling pragmatic design choices across embedded, frontend, and backend domains. At AWS he has contributed to the Amazon ECS agent releases and operational configuration, demonstrating expertise in DevOps, release engineering, and production-grade services. He pairs full-stack JavaScript and mobile experience (Node.js, Angular, React, Android/Cordova) with a systems mindset honed from embedded and hardware work. Outside of work he keeps focused habits—maintaining GitHub and Duolingo streaks and running a home automation bot—reflecting a personal practice of continuous learning and automation. Based in Seattle, he blends a tinkerer’s curiosity with steady delivery on large-scale distributed infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (15)
manager10
release-management10
docker10
go10
dockers10
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
udp6
socket-io6
socket6
android-listview6
android6
phonegap-plugin6
cordova6
android-emulator6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ecs-agent
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:5 releases, 171 reviews, 27 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Yash's contributions primarily involve releasing new versions of the Amazon ECS agent, as indicated by the commit messages and version bumps. They made changes to the agent's versioning and configuration files, including updates to `agent/version/version.go` and `ecs-init/config/common.go`. These changes suggest a focus on managing and deploying the agent's software, which integrates the agent with various services within the AWS ecosystem.
service-containeramazon-ec2agentelasticamazon
YashdalfTheGray/todos-tester
Oct 2018 - Apr 2025
Test package for the todos app using Puppeteer, Jest, Javascript and Docker
Contributions:218 reviews, 221 PRs, 271 pushes in 6 years 6 months
jestjavascriptpuppeteertodosdocker
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