# Yash Verma

> I build products and the systems behind them. 5+ years shipping features, shaping roadmaps, and owning the analytics, page speed, and infrastructure that keep things running in production. Comfortable anywhere in the stack, and looking for my next product, full-stack, backend, or frontend role.

Role: Senior software engineer · Full-stack, backend, and analytics.

Yash Verma is a software engineer based in Bangalore, India. Open to remote roles and roles outside India. He works at Quizizz (DBA Wayground) as a Senior Software Development Engineer (since August 2021). Education: B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, IIIT Una (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Una), 2018 to 2022. Email: yashv.work@gmail.com. Website: https://itsyashverma.com

The years figure counts full-time work only, from August 2021. Internships are listed separately.

## Experience

- [Quizizz (DBA Wayground)](https://itsyashverma.com/#experience): Senior Software Development Engineer, August 2021 to present. I lead a team of 5 engineers. The team owns search on Postgres and the Waygent analytics platform, and helped cut infrastructure cost.
  - Search on Postgres: This change saved $270k.
  - Less data transfer: This change saved $100k.
  - BigQuery streaming: This change saved $120k.
  - Data analysis platform: Registration funnels increased by 2%. The game creation rate increased by 0.5%. A/B test release time decreased from 2 weeks to 1 week.
  - Analytics pipeline: The peak rate was 300k requests each minute. The service level was 99.99%.
  - Analytics client: Data loss decreased by 15%. Automatic events made important funnels easier to track. All microfrontends adopted the SDK.
  - Server-side rendering: I led a team of 2 engineers on the Nuxt SSR and SSG service. User registration from organic traffic increased by 15%.
  - Static page pipeline: Time to first byte improved by 12%. Largest contentful paint improved by 31%.
  - Canary deployments: P0 incidents decreased by 83%.
  - ECS auto-scaling: AWS cost decreased by 10%.
  - Website performance: Page load time at p75 decreased by 63%. New user activation increased by 1%.
  - Build time: Build time decreased by 15%.
  - Tool migration: Build time decreased by 50%.
  - Quiz and lesson editor: Bug reports decreased by 98%.
  - AI features: Lesson adoption increased by 2.3%.
  - Data ingestion pipeline: The pipeline processed more than 500,000 rows.
  - Google Drive import: 56% of platform content came from this integration.
  - Search results: Search response at p99 improved by 23%. The search success rate increased by 1.2%.
- [Conwo Solution Pvt. Ltd.](https://itsyashverma.com/#experience): Software Development Engineering Intern, Jan 2021 to August 2021.
  - Website performance: Website performance increased by 60%. The Lighthouse score increased.
- [Advenio Tecnosys Pvt. Ltd.](https://itsyashverma.com/#experience): Full Stack Developer Intern, August 2020 to Jan 2021.
  - Offline use: The Lighthouse score increased by 40%.
- [Mckinley and Rice](https://itsyashverma.com/#experience): React Developer Intern, August 2020 to October 2020.
- [DrawPI Inc.](https://itsyashverma.com/#experience): Web Developer Intern, April 2020 to May 2020.

## Projects

- [CodeSloth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoZFZuZq0Wk): CodeSloth is a browser extension for reviewing large GitHub pull requests by hand. It is not an AI review bot. Take your time and actually read the code. It works in Chrome, Arc, Edge, and Brave. I use it at Wayground. Links: [Demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoZFZuZq0Wk), [Privacy policy](https://yashverma2110.github.io/codesloth-privacy/), [On this site](https://itsyashverma.com/#project-codesloth).
- [opencode-goalkit](https://github.com/yashverma2110/opencode-goalkit): opencode-goalkit is an OpenCode plugin, published on npm. It adds /goal and /grill. Links: [GitHub](https://github.com/yashverma2110/opencode-goalkit), [On this site](https://itsyashverma.com/#project-opencode-goalkit).
- [Barc](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/barc/geaofdlkhololmpnbihingjkpfoiadoc): Barc is a Chrome extension for tabs. The layout follows the Arc browser. Links: [GitHub](https://github.com/yashverma2110/barc), [Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/barc/geaofdlkhololmpnbihingjkpfoiadoc), [On this site](https://itsyashverma.com/#project-barc).

## Writing

- [Code review workflows are outdated](https://itsyashverma.com/blog/code-review-workflows-are-outdated): Why the GitHub pull request experience is incomplete. Published Oct 11, 2026.
- [Blog](https://itsyashverma.com/blog): all posts
- [RSS feed](https://itsyashverma.com/blog/rss.xml): new posts

## Tools

- [Markdown editor](https://itsyashverma.com/editor): a Markdown editor that runs in the browser. Documents stay in the browser's local storage.

## Profiles

- [GitHub](https://github.com/yashverma2110): GitHub profile
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yash-verma-80279b16b/): LinkedIn profile
- [X](https://x.com/we_chat_tech): X profile
- [Medium](https://medium.com/@yash.silver2110): Medium profile

## Optional

- [llms-full.txt](https://itsyashverma.com/llms-full.txt): full experience, project details, stack, and the full text of each post
- [Sitemap](https://itsyashverma.com/sitemap.xml): every page on the site