About

Yashash Pugalia

I'm a software engineer. I'm originally from Kolkata, India, and brought up in New Delhi. I owe much of my career to the Web and open source.

I spent my early teens tinkering with computers — flashing custom ROMs on Android phones, dual-booting Linux distros, and building small WordPress sites.

At 16, I built browser-based replicas of Windows 11 (win11-svelte, win11-react), which went viral and reached over 20M+ visits, including hitting #1 on Hacker News (archive). The project was sponsored by Vercel and received recognition from people like Guillermo Rauch, Eric Simons, and Rich Harris.

I later worked with early-stage startups, building MVPs and product systems across full-stack.

At 18, I joined Haast as a founding frontend engineer at Pre-Seed. I built and owned much of the frontend for a B2B AI platform focused on marketing and legal compliance, as the company scaled from pre-seed through Seed (Airtree A$6M) and into Series A (Peak XV $12M), now used by Fortune 500s.

I'm particularly interested in building product experiences at the intersection of AI and the web.