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Yash Bavadiya
Developer Relations Engineer
Calls 7pm to midnight, Jodhpur time. A message here reaches me fastest.
I'm a Developer Relations Engineer at Workers IO (YC F26) and a computer science student at IIT Jodhpur. This summer I shipped three features into KDE Kdenlive as a Google Summer of Code contributor.
Most of what I build is for other developers. HatchZip, the newest, extracts huge archives in place, so a 180 GB download only needs room for what's inside it. Its launch post passed 1.7 million views and it has 2,630 stars. Breakscale, a system design simulator, crossed 1,000 GitHub stars in its first week and has 2,002 stars now, and Gyotaku makes every screenshot you've taken searchable by the text inside it (385 stars). Smaller experiments live in my lab.
Work
04- Leading developer relations at Workers IO, a YC F26 startup. A founder reached out after seeing Breakscale, and the offer came 10 days after the repo went up. I never applied.
- Writing technical posts on system design, deterministic simulation testing and post-mortems of classic distributed systems failures, published under my own byline.
- Building tools and extending Breakscale to show engineers how simulation testing changes software reliability, rather than just describing it.
- 2,630 GitHub starsHatchZipExtract huge archives in place.
- 2,002 GitHub starsBreakscaleBuild a system, load it until it breaks, and watch why.
- 385 GitHub starsGyotakuSearch every screenshot you've ever taken by the text inside it.
- mytimetheirtimeShare your free time in someone else's time zone.
- Kdenlive (GSoC '26)GSoC 2026 contributor for Kdenlive, the open source video editor.
- PhotonA nanosecond-scale NASDAQ ITCH 5.0 feed handler and matching engine in C++20, with zero-copy parsing, a lock-free SPSC ring, busy-polled UDP multicast, and per-symbol order books.
Highlights
11- HatchZip's launch post passed 1.7M viewsHatchZip
- Breakscale joined the Vercel OSS ProgramVercel
- 1,000 GitHub stars in six daysbreakscale
- 8 stars to a job offer in 10 days. The DM came from a repo.Workers IO
- Accepted with KDE, proposal ranked firstGSoC 2026
- Completed Google Summer of Code with KDEGSoC 2026
- Guillermo Rauch replied to the Breakscale postVercel
- Breakscale on the front page of Hacker NewsHacker News
- Accepted into the Mintlify OSS ProgramMintlify
- Invited to the jj-vcs organization after contributingjj-vcs
- At 1,000 stars: 7 contributors, 93 forks, 12 open issuesOpen Source
Open source
82 merged
feat: honest, student-friendly challenges with their own workspaceworkersio/breakscale+8.9K −565Nov 26- feat(sim): hold service, worker and lambda slots until their downstream calls answerworkersio/breakscale+2.1K −118Nov 26
- fix(sim): make Slow work on stores, replicas, shards, websockets and lambdasworkersio/breakscale+342 −32Nov 26
- fix(sim): port V8's fdlibm so seeded runs replay bit for bit on arm64 and Safariworkersio/breakscale+1.1K −10Nov 26
- fix(history): keep a shared design from overwriting the saved session on an empty undoworkersio/breakscale+38 −10Nov 26
Off the clock
Crazyyy Design !!
Byte Adi
big fan sir, teach me your ways!!
Anish
Xev is Thanos for code. one snap, and mediocre developers everywhere turn to dust
Lyra
i am in this guy's basement please send help
Reitard
Been following your portfolio and it's cool watching the portfolio evolve every time I check back. Keep cooking 😎🔥
Kumar Prasannajit Sahu
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