# Yash Kshirsagar > Engineering @ Applied Intuition Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yashkshirsagar Product-minded frontend engineer with 10+ years of professional experience building web products for millions of users, leveraging human-centered design principles. Currently invested in autonomous vehicles, web accessibility, and design systems. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Applied Intuition Jan 2026 – Present Founding engineer on a new team - currently responsible for architecting and implementing FE for a brand new product. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Coursera Jan 2016 – Jan 2025 | Mountain View, California Coach Platform team: built Coursera's AI-assisted learning platform used by over 2 million learners so far — owning the frontend for all Coach platform code, as well as enabling other teams to seamlessly integrate Coach features into their products. Storybook-driven development with clean and comprehensive documentation. Design System team: previously built and maintained our internal design system used across ALL product teams — enabling teams to use accessible, bidirectional, and reusable components at Coursera scale. Authored and maintained detailed technical documentation for the design system, performed large-scale migrations on the codebase to update coding best practices and replace new components via codemods to quickly improve adoption. Web Accessibility: aside from regular work, as part of the a11y guild I actively contribute to several Eng efforts to make a11y an integral part of our product dev culture. e.g. tech talks on specific actionable topics, office hours for design and dev consultation Content Authoring platform: previously worked extensively on the this team building several high-impact authoring tools for course instructors to more efficiently create content on the platform – one highlight includes being core owner of a complex rich content authoring system that cut across several engineering teams. Learned a whole lot about the complexities of authoring content on the Web, especially from a pedagogical context. Frontend onboarding bootcamp: one of the founding members that created the first iteration of bootcamp – created custom codelabs and ran onboarding sessions for several batches of new hires joining Coursera. This was a big timesaver for product teams having new engineers be more productive and valuable from the get go. ### Frontend Engineer @ Yahoo Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, California Yahoo.com Experiences team: - Developing isomorphic Javascript apps using the Yahoo-flavored Express stack, Flux and React.js components. - Worked on modern desktop & mobile web experiences such as Yahoo Tech, Yahoo News and Yahoo Style, that impact millions of users daily. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Yahoo Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Sunnyvale, CA Yahoo News and Weather team: - Built a back office information visualization system that provides interactive geo-visualizations of weather metadata such as coverage, freshness and quality metrics of the providers' weather data and user/API request frequency and coverage. The tool would be a key element in providing a visual aid to the team to gain useful insights in the data and make improvements in the technical and business ends of the product. It would be on display on a large monitor in the team's work area for ease-of-access and visibility. - Responsibilities include building the tool ground up, starting with building an extensible back-end data collection infrastructure for ingesting and processing the data and then implementing a front-end that generates interactive visualizations from the processed data. ### Researcher @ Sonification Lab @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Atlanta, GA - Researching and developing auditory interfaces to make websites more accessible to the visually impaired. - Working under Dr. Bruce Walker along with an HCI specialist and two Psych PhD students specializing in accessibility. ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology ### Hutchings High School, Pune ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yashksagar - Portfolio: https://yashksagar.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/yashkshirsagar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yashkshirsagar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11