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

Three crafts, one product mindset
Where I've worked
- Mar 2026 — PresentNew York City
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
CurrentTwelveLabsMar 2026 — PresentBringing 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
- Mar 2023 — Mar 2026New York, NY
Senior Software Engineer, Streaming
Peloton InteractiveMar 2023 — Mar 2026Owned 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
- Jun 2020 — Mar 2023Plano, TX
Software Process Engineer III & Engineering Manager
Samsung Electronics AmericaJun 2020 — Mar 2023Built 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
- 2022McMinnville, TN
Video Streaming Engineer (Volunteer)
Isha Foundation2022Volunteered 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
- Jan 2019 — Jun 2020West Lafayette, IN
Graduate Research Assistant
Purdue UniversityJan 2019 — Jun 2020Built 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
- 2017 — 2018Pune, India
Software Engineer Intern
Persistent Systems2017 — 2018Worked on autonomous-vehicle agents using machine learning and computer vision.
- Machine learning
- Computer vision
Where I studied
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