About
Yash Agarwal
Backend & Distributed Systems Engineer, based in Punjab, India. Open to SWE roles and internships · 2027 graduate.
I build backend and distributed systems, and I like the layer underneath them: the network, the wire format, the part that has to be right before anything above it can be fast.
In 2026 I was a Google Summer of Code contributor at the Apache Software Foundation, where two of my pull requests brought gRPC code generation for Dart and Swift into Apache Fory. I spent the summer as a software engineering intern at Salesforce, building observability for a production service ahead of its GA. Before that my team won Smart India Hackathon 2025 at the national level with Vajra, a DPDK-accelerated firewall, and I built and still run Salongraphy, a hiring marketplace live on Google Play.
I study Computer Science at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, graduating in 2027, and lead the technical team at the campus Google Developer Group.
Education, leadership and skills
Education
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering
Aug 2023 - Jun 2027 · CGPA 8.57
Leadership
Technical Lead, Google Developer Groups
Jul 2024 - Present
Lead a 50-member technical team and run workshops for 100+ students on Git, backend engineering and open-source contribution.
What I work with
Languages
Distributed & Backend
Networking & Security
Practices