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.

Built browser-based replicas of Windows 11 (win11-svelte, win11-react), which went viral and reached over 20M visits, 11K GitHub stars, hitting #1 on Hacker News (archive). The project was sponsored by Vercel, reaching industry acclaim: Guillermo Rauch, Eric Simons, and Rich Harris.

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

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.