Yash Saraf
Engineering Manager at BrowserStack
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolYash Saraf is an Engineering Manager based in Mumbai with 10 years of experience leading teams and shipping diverse software—from web and desktop apps to mobile and CLI tools—primarily at BrowserStack. An open-source enthusiast and two-time Google Summer of Code participant, he made notable contributions to scancode-toolkit, adding a practical --ignore feature plus testing and output integrations that improved real-world license and dependency scanning workflows. Comfortable in Java, Python, PHP and Node.js, he combines hands-on backend and automation skills with people leadership and delivery ownership. Known for translating developer-centric tooling improvements into product value, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset and a decade of steady growth from individual contributor to manager.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, A, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, A at Jai Hind College
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Github Skills (13)
command-line-interface10
python10
command-line10
cli10
pytest9
testing9
plugin-development9
scanning8
licensing8
scanner8
automation8
automations8
git7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
:mag: ScanCode detects licenses, copyrights, dependencies by "scanning code" ... to discover and inventory open source and third-party packages used in your code. Sponsored by NLnet project https://nlnet.nl/project/vulnerabilitydatabase, the Google Summer of Code, Azure credits, nexB and others generous sponsors!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:38 commits, 5 PRs, 51 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Yash's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the `scancode-toolkit` by adding a new `--ignore` option for file and glob pattern exclusion during scans. They implemented the feature, wrote unit and end-to-end tests for it, and provided examples in the documentation. Further contributions include integrating plugins and formats for output such as CSV format and post-scan processing. These changes improve the tool's usability and extend its capabilities.
licensingdependenciesdependency-graphcode-scanningprovenance
yashdsaraf/canvas-lms
Oct 2022 - Mar 2024
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
Contributions:56 PRs, 62 pushes, 62 branches in 1 year 5 months
lmsopen-lmsincinstructure
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