Work Experience

Haast

2023 - Present

Sydney, Australia - Remote

Joined as the first frontend engineer, shipped core parts of the platform - automating legal and marketing compliance with AI. Now used by Fortune 500s and backed by Airtree ($6M seed).

Realm Labs

2022 - 2023

New York, United States - Remote

Built AI comic creation platform from scratch, from auth to drag-and-drop editor, AI scene/character gen, character chat, and integrated merch + payments. Worked with the founder Will Yoo, and a team that included creators of top open-source AI models.

Projects

Windows 11 Web

2021 - 2022

Built win11-svelte and win11-react reaching over 7.3M users, 18M views and earning 10.8K GitHub Stars.

Tech Stack

Frontend: JavaScript/TypeScript · Svelte/Kit · React · Tailwind/DaisyUI · Chart.js · PSPDFKit

Backend / Database: MongoDB · PostgreSQL · DrizzleORM · Prisma · Flask · FastAPI · SQLAlchemy

Platform / Tools: GitHub Actions · Firebase · Google Cloud Platform · Auth.js · Lucia Auth · Stripe · Langchain

Testimonials

Love your work! Especially your dedication to building with craft and creative exploration.

~ Julie Zhuo, Co-Founder Sundial | ex-VP Design Facebook

Well played https://win11-svelte.vercel.app
Also: modern web browsers are engineering marvels

~ Guillermo Rauch, CEO Vercel | Creator Next.js

Great work on this @yashash_pugalia!,
One idea I had - you could even power the file system and standalone terminal app using the http://webcontainers.io api 👀

~ Eric Simons, CEO Bolt.new

i love the 'build a pretend OS in svelte' trend — kudos @yashash_pugalia

~ Rich Harris, Creator Svelte

I want to say you're one of the most talented young engineers I've met, you make some engineers and even founders I've worked with look like amateurs. I highly encourage you to take risks, and do big things with your life. I'm always here to support you. Let's win together.

~ Will Yoo, Co-Founder Unto Labs, Thru

Love your work! Especially your dedication to building with craft and creative exploration.

~ Julie Zhuo, Co-Founder Sundial | ex-VP Design Facebook

Well played https://win11-svelte.vercel.app
Also: modern web browsers are engineering marvels

~ Guillermo Rauch, CEO Vercel | Creator Next.js

Great work on this @yashash_pugalia!,
One idea I had - you could even power the file system and standalone terminal app using the http://webcontainers.io api 👀

~ Eric Simons, CEO Bolt.new

i love the 'build a pretend OS in svelte' trend — kudos @yashash_pugalia

~ Rich Harris, Creator Svelte

I want to say you're one of the most talented young engineers I've met, you make some engineers and even founders I've worked with look like amateurs. I highly encourage you to take risks, and do big things with your life. I'm always here to support you. Let's win together.

~ Will Yoo, Co-Founder Unto Labs, Thru

Education

Bennett University

Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech, Computer Science

Thank You!

for reading the whole thing, lucky me :)

Yashash Pugalia