Yash Sharma
SWE at Orb
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYash Sharma is a software engineer with nine years of experience building and operating infrastructure-focused systems across startups and large platforms, now based in San Francisco. He has shipped CI/CD tooling at Asana, worked on cost and edge infrastructure at Stripe, and currently drives infrastructure work at Orb. His contributions to the AWS SDK for Ruby demonstrate hands-on expertise in backend and DevOps integration, including adding a new external-process credential provider and tests to a widely used open-source project. Yash combines production-grade systems engineering with a knack for developer tooling and reliability, supported by early cloud and GPU storage work at Amazon and NVIDIA. He also has a history of mentoring and curriculum development from his time as lead course staff at UIUC, reflecting strengths in teaching and code quality. Comfortable moving between code, CI, and cloud primitives, he focuses on practical improvements that scale and reduce operational cost.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hindi, English
Github Skills (13)
ruby10
json-parser10
json10
rspec10
jsonp10
aws10
parsing10
aws-sdk10
error-handling9
shell8
script8
sh8
scripting8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-ruby
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
The official AWS SDK for Ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Yash focused on implementing and integrating a new credential provider based on executing external processes within the AWS SDK for Ruby. They wrote code to execute these processes, parse their output, and handle different payload versions and potential errors. The user also added corresponding test cases to ensure the provider's functionality and robustness. Furthermore, the user modified the credential provider chain and supporting files, integrating the newly created provider.
sdkaws-sdkrubycloudaws
HackIllinois/api-2018
Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:7 releases, 326 commits, 234 PRs in 1 year 3 months
javasupportingback-end
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