# yugender boini

> Principal Software Development Engineer at Yahoo

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yugender

Full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience in building large scale backend systems and  Android apps.

Specialties: 

•	Strong hands-on experience in designing and building high traffic services involving real time and offstage processing. 

•	Capable of planning and organizing a variety of activities to ensure successful implementation of each system

•	Extensively worked on cutting edge technologies including Java, Storm, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Android, Python, Node.js, Javascript

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Development Engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2021 – Present

### Principal Software Development Engineer @ Verizon Media
Jan 2020 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Oath
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Canada Area

### Senior Software Engineer @ Yahoo! Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, CA
Content Recommendation System: Built Content recommendation system to provide contextual content recommendations with dynamic display and native advertising integration for "What to read next" component of Yahoo's article pages. This large scale component is built in Java as serving layer, Storm for content processing and Redis as caching layer. This fully CI/CD component built using Docker and Kubernetes.

Dynamic Ad layout: Designed and implemented a system to get user engagement signals in real time and change the ad layout to optimize ad yield and revenue. It is built in Java with Kafka, Hbase and Storm.

Yahoo Recommends : Developed serving component for Yahoo Recommends - a content recommendation widget deployed on sites like CNET, Download.com, Hearst Publications, Vox Media

Label Classification: Built a system for editors to label the classifications and feed into active learning pipeline for content label classifiers.

App Install and Attribution: Developed serving component for delivering native app install promotion system on mobile web to increase yahoo in-house app installs and Daily Active Users (DAUs).  Branch.io integration for app install attribution for existing app install promotions on Homepage Mobile Web Application.

Elections Result Backend System: Developed a reliable system to deliver near real time election results for our users across all devices.

Android: As a part of Yahoo's monetization team, worked on designing new ad formats for Android apps including full scroll ad unit, pencil ads. Designed and developed end-to-end solution for deep linking and deferred deep linking on Newsroom app.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Yahoo! Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale, CA


## Education
### M.Sc(Tech) in Information Systems
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yugender-boini-90304234

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Last updated: 2026-04-12