Available for interesting problems

Hi, I'm Yash — I build with craft.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer at TwelveLabs, bringing video AI to customers — with a decade across video streaming, backend engineering, and the web. To me, software is more art than science — a creative, tedious, deeply rewarding craft.

📍 Based in New York City

Yash Gugale
What I do

Three crafts, one product mindset

Video AI & Streaming
From multimodal video understanding (Marengo, Pegasus) to adaptive delivery, SSAI, and the full AWS Elemental pipeline — ingest to edge.
Backend Engineering
Resilient APIs and microservices with FastAPI and serverless, backed by SQL and NoSQL stores, observability, and load testing.
Web Development
Fast, design-minded interfaces with React, Next.js, and Svelte — shipped end to end, internal tools to customer-facing products.
Experience

Where I've worked

  1. Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

    Current
    TwelveLabs
    Mar 2026 — Present

    Bringing the Marengo and Pegasus video AI models to customers — designing integrations that turn multimodal video understanding into production features.

    • Marengo & Pegasus video AI
    • Customer integrations
    • Multimodal video understanding
  2. Senior Software Engineer, Streaming

    Peloton Interactive
    Mar 2023 — Mar 2026

    Owned resilient VOD and LIVE content delivery and the media orchestration platform — from multi-CDN failover to the microservices and tooling that power it.

    • Multi-CDN failover (AWS + Akamai)
    • End-to-end media orchestration WebApp
    • FastAPI · DynamoDB · MongoDB · Istio · OpenTelemetry
    • VOD-to-LIVE via AWS Channel Assembly
    • M3U8 linter · multi-language subtitles · notification system
    • Dashboards: CloudWatch, Datadog, NPAW
  3. Software Process Engineer III & Engineering Manager

    Samsung Electronics America
    Jun 2020 — Mar 2023

    Built and led work on Samsung TV Plus — the OTT/VOD and linear streaming platform — across the full AWS Elemental media stack, while managing a distributed engineering team.

    • Samsung TV Plus OTT/VOD & linear channels
    • AWS Elemental: MediaConvert, MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaTailor
    • Automated EPG, FFmpeg VOD ingest, DRM (HLS CMAF/DASH + SSAI)
    • Launched channels across 9 global regions
    • Led a team of 8 (US + India) + QA/tech-ops
    • DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, GraphQL
  4. Video Streaming Engineer (Volunteer)

    Isha Foundation
    2022

    Volunteered on multi-language VOD delivery — building multi-audio tracks and MediaConvert stitching workflows on JW Player.

    • Multi-audio VOD via JW Player
    • MediaConvert workflows
    • DVR exploration
  5. Graduate Research Assistant

    Purdue University
    Jan 2019 — Jun 2020

    Built an interactive dashboard visualizing Indiana education and workforce data for the IN-MaC initiative, pairing UX research with D3.js.

    • D3.js data visualization
    • UI/UX & qualitative research
    • Workforce data dashboard
  6. Software Engineer Intern

    Persistent Systems
    2017 — 2018

    Worked on autonomous-vehicle agents using machine learning and computer vision.

    • Machine learning
    • Computer vision
Education

Where I studied

MBA2022 — 2025
Entrepreneurship
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — Gies College of Business
M.S.2018 — 2020
Computer Graphics Technology (Data Visualization, VR/AR)
Purdue University
B.E.2014 — 2018
Computer Engineering
University of Pune
Toolkit

Skills & technologies

Video & Streaming

  • HLS
  • DASH
  • CMAF
  • SSAI
  • DRM
  • AWS Elemental
  • Channel Assembly
  • FFmpeg
  • Akamai

Video AI

  • Marengo
  • Pegasus
  • Multimodal understanding
  • Video retrieval

Backend

  • FastAPI
  • Serverless
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • Python
  • Node.js
  • JWT / OAuth2

Databases

  • DynamoDB
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL

Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Lambda
  • S3
  • CloudFront
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • EKS
  • Istio

Observability

  • Datadog
  • CloudWatch
  • OpenTelemetry
  • AWS X-Ray
  • NPAW
  • OpenSearch

Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Svelte
  • D3.js
  • HTML
  • CSS

Quality & Tooling

  • PyTest
  • Ruff
  • Locust
  • GitHub Actions
  • Jira
  • Figma

Where you can find my work

Peloton
Samsung
Purdue University
Isha Foundation
Persistent Systems
Peloton
Samsung
Purdue University
Isha Foundation
Persistent Systems
Beyond code

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