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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 2,897 stars. Breakscale, a system design simulator, crossed 1,000 GitHub stars in its first week and has 2,042 stars now, and Gyotaku makes every screenshot you've taken searchable by the text inside it (396 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.
- 2,897 GitHub starsHatchZipExtract huge archives in place.
- 2,042 GitHub starsBreakscaleBuild a system, load it until it breaks, and watch why.
- 396 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
85 merged
feat: real incident replays, headless verify and the break_it MCP tool, plus example fixesworkersio/breakscale+3.6K −184Nov 26- feat: break it search, per-route metrics, learning tools, undoable faults and polishworkersio/breakscale+16.8K −584Nov 26
fix(dev): use Claude's current plan names in sample datarobinebers/openusage+5 −5Nov 26- 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
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Anish
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Lyra
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