Vipin Yadav
Lead Backend & Platform Engineer · Mumbai
I believe the best solutions are often the simplest.
I design backend systems and elucidate how data moves through them. 10 years in, my favorite part is eliminating what doesn't need to be there. I've owned production end to end, from APIs and event-driven pipelines to the cloud underneath, and lately I'm giving AI agents real tools through MCP. Developer productivity matters most, so on the side I build tools that give me more time to build.
NowShipping Waveform and Calendo updates, listening to jazz and Adele.
How I think
Three habits behind most of my work.
Trace the flow
Before I change anything, I follow the data from where it starts to where it lands. The system explains itself if you walk it end to end.
Prototype, then discuss
A working prototype ends more debates than a long meeting. Build it, test it, learn from it, and iterate.
Remove before you optimize
The fastest code is the code that never runs. I look for the service, the sync job or the step that can simply go.
Things I built
Small tools that give me more time to build.
Also on the shelf: FanBar · Samah · PageDB · Fast Reopen
Behind the keyboard
I'm a proud audiophile who learns by explaining things out loud. Give me a whiteboard and I'll trace how data flows through a system and point out the complexity that doesn't need to be there, then help you simplify it.
Developer productivity matters most to me, so on the side I build tools that give me more time to build.
On the tech side
- owns
- systems from the first diagram to production
- builds
- the tool when it doesn't exist
- prefers
- a working prototype over a long discussion
- gives
- AI agents real tools to work with
- ships
- Claude and Codex skills for engineering teams
- defaults
- to local-first, private by default
- experiments
- with open-source AI models
Off the clock
- watches
- motorsports, and sim races on weekends
- plays
- soundtracks by Hans Zimmer and Ludwig Göransson
- easing into
- jazz these days
- on repeat
- Adele at 35,000 feet
- tinkers
- with electrical gadgets
- builds
- and learns drones
- squeezes in
- a quick game of online chess
Occasional notes
Things I wrote down.
Work with me
Got a system that's grown tangled?
I can be your technical consultant and help take your business to new heights by leveraging the power of the web. Bring the diagram, I'll bring the scissors.