Yash Kumaraswamy

Yash Kumaraswamy is a Senior Staff Engineer at Robinhood since June 2021, focusing on infrastructure, observability, data, and reliability, and serving as the team lead for observability and reliability initiatives. Prior to this role, Yash worked at Lyft from September 2014 to June 2021 as a Staff Software Engineer, contributing to a streaming platform and leading the development of a next-generation data pipeline within the data team, while also participating as the tech lead and founding member of the Observability team at Lyft. Yash's career began at Zynga, where roles included Principal Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and Software Developer, with responsibilities ranging from leading the Games with Friends server team to developing full-stack features and web applications. Yash's earlier experience also includes a role as a Service and Reliability Engineer at Ning, addressing various database and performance issues, using multiple programming languages and technologies. Yash holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, completed in 2009.