About

Yash Ubale is a Senior Backend Software Developer with 4 years of experience in the information retrieval and machine learning domain. He has worked for two of India's largest e-commerce companies, with extensive experience in building scalable services using Dropwizard, Spring Boot, and micro-service architecture. Yash is highly skilled in search query intent retrieval using Apache Lucene search engine, as well as using CNNs, RNNs for embedding-based models using Tensorflow (Keras) for category identification. He has also worked on CDC (change data capture) pipeline using Debezium for MySQL, real-time event pipelines with Kafka, and building and load testing scalable systems for 10x sale events. Yash has a strong understanding of AWS infrastructure (EC2, RDS, Elasticsearch, Redis), caches (Couchbase, Redis), databases (MySQL), and big data job pipelines using MapReduce (Cascading). He is also proficient in Quartz scheduler with Spring Boot and executing and bringing to closure numerous AB experiments. Currently working as a Senior Software Engineer (SDE III) at Meesho, Yash has worked on building a catalog-based product index for exact and near exact match intent and category retrieval without any semantic knowledge. He has also built and scaled serving systems to host catalogue-based relevance modules. Prior to Meesho, Yash worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Flipkart, where he worked on similar projects. He also has experience working as an Associate in Engineering Development Group at MathWorks. Yash holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar. He is highly skilled in software engineering, information retrieval, search, Redis, MySQL, Spring Boot, Spring, AWS, Keras, MapReduce, big data, ML, Tensorflow, Elastic Search, Kafka, microservices, backend, infra, Python, and Java. With 4.87 years of relevant experience, Yash is a highly skilled and experienced software developer.