Yash Parekh
Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYash Parekh is a senior Android engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer mobile apps at scale, currently shaping product engineering at The New York Times. He has led platform and feature work across companies like VSCO, Vrbo, and GoodRx—introducing dependency injection, rebuilding onboarding flows, and shipping new multiplayer and trip-management experiences used by millions. Comfortable as both a sole platform owner and a cross-team contributor, he combines deep Android pragmatism with a systems mindset from an Electrical & Computer Engineering background. Yash has a track record of reducing technical debt and establishing modern architecture and best practices through guild leadership. He’s equally at home iterating product-focused growth features and architecting foundations that enable rapid, reliable releases. Based in New York, he brings a blend of hands-on implementation and cross-functional influence that consistently moves consumer apps forward.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Informatics, Bachelor’s Degree Informatics at The University of EdinburghBachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School Electrical and Electronics Engineering, High School Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The Middlesex County Academy for Science, Math and Engineering Technologies
English
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yparekh39/better-hacker-news
Jul 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 7 months
yparekh39/artsee
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:50 commits, 23 pushes in 9 days
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