Yash Mehrotra
Senior Backend Engineer at Flanksource
India
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Top SchoolYash Mehrotra is a Senior Backend Engineer with 12 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure and high-throughput backend systems from India. He has led platform and developer-experience initiatives—migrating workloads to GCP Kubernetes, building GitOps flows with ArgoCD, and implementing canary rollouts with automatic rollback—while reducing operational overhead through Terraform and custom controllers. His background spans search and API engineering where he rebuilt indexing pipelines to cut processing time from hours to minutes and handled systems serving hundreds of thousands of queries per minute. Yash is also an active open-source contributor, improving UI/UX on projects like Mozilla’s MozDef and hardening NumPy through targeted test automation, reflecting a rare blend of backend systems expertise and front-end polish. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to ship infrastructure that makes developer environments spawnable in minutes and recovers production clusters in under 30 minutes.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya PicketBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at Jaypee Institute of Inormation Technology
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Github Skills (37)
hugo10
javascript10
wordpress-themes10
python10
testing10
css10
ui-design10
numpy10
ui-theme10
regression-testing10
front-end-development10
html10
meteor10
templating10
test-automation10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
gokarna-theme/gokarna-hugo
May 2021 - Nov 2022
A minimal opinionated theme for Hugo
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 88 commits, 205 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Yash primarily focused on theming and UI/UX improvements for the Hugo theme. Their commits included templating menu rendering, adding templating to post pages, and refactoring code to use vanilla JavaScript instead of jQuery. The user also made changes to the CSS to adjust spacing and font sizes. Furthermore, they implemented avatar size options, added open graph and twitter tags, and fixed a variety of minor UI and styling issues.
ioniconshugodark-themehugo-theme
mozilla/MozDef
Sep 2015 - Dec 2017
DEPRECATED - MozDef: Mozilla Enterprise Defense Platform
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 9 PRs, 11 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Yash primarily focused on front-end development and user interface improvements. They addressed deprecation warnings, refactoring code related to UI components (e.g., `THREE.CubeGeometry`), and implemented new features, such as the "Reset Filters" button. Their contributions included updating and adding new documentation, improving the UI of the side-nav and handling the "Mark as Read" feature using checkbox. Furthermore, the user integrated incident creation with MongoDB.
pythonelksecurityelk-stackelasticsearch
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