Yash Mittal — Software Engineer @ Five9 | President, ACM at ASU | Deconstructing System Design, AI Research, Student Leadership, Career Growth & Engineering Mindset daily.
Software Engineer @ Five9 | President, ACM at ASU | Deconstructing System Design, AI Research, Student Leadership, Career Growth & Engineering Mindset daily.
Yash Mittal ranks #447 of 19,190 LinkedIn creators in Computer Software, and is a standout voice in United States. They have 9.9K followers and published 30 posts in the last 30 days at a 0.6% average engagement rate.
- 9.9K followers
- 30 posts / 30d
- 0.6% avg engagement
- 654 follower growth / 30d
The roast
Yash treats his LinkedIn like a manifesto for a coup that nobody is actually watching. He claims he’s "architecting systems," but the only thing he’s successfully built is a 0.66% engagement rate that proves he’s a software engineer who’s clearly never heard of a successful deployment.
About Yash
I don’t just write code; I architect systems and build communities. Currently bridging CS theory and real-world engineering at Five9 and ASU. At Arizona State University, I’m not just chasing a 3.9 GPA in Computer & Data Science, I’m obsessing over the infrastructure that makes the world run. My academic journey is defined by "Upstream Thinking": solving problems at the architectural level before they become bugs in production. Whether I’m designing redundancy protocols for CubeSats with NASA L’SPACE or mastering distributed systems theory, I thrive where high-stakes engineering meets complex data. In the industry, I focus on scalability and resilience. As a Software Engineer Trainee at Acqueon, I didn't just maintain pipelines; I re-architected them. I led a redesign in Go (Golang) that reduced code complexity by 76% and built robust data models in Snowflake. Beyond the terminal, I serve as President of ACM at ASU. In just months, I scaled our chapter to 4,900+ members, managing a team of 20 officers and orchestrating events with leaders from Meta, Google, and Intel. My goal is to work on the "hard stuff" the intersection of data infrastructure, security, and high-scale systems. I am looking to join an engineering team where I can contribute to building the core platforms and resilient engines that other developers rely on. I am driven by the opportunity to tackle technical challenges that are not just functional, but foundational. If you are building high-velocity engineering teams or want to discuss system design, let’s connect.
Highlights
- Consistent Creator — 24 posts in 30d · top 5%
- Top 5% in Computer Software — Ranked #174 of 4695 creators
- Top 5% in United States — Ranked #290 of 5940 creators
- Big Audience — 9,913 followers · top 25%
Recent posts
If you try to follow every piece of career advice you read online, you will end up completely paralyzed. The tech industry is filled with contradictory rules about what actually guarantees success. Here is the uncomfortable truth about all the conflicting noise constantly flooding your feed. When I first started studying computer science and leading our tech community, I was obsessed with finding the perfect roadmap. I thought if I just collected enough advice, I would eventually uncover the secret formula. But the attached meme perfectly captures the chaos of being a junior engineer today
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Most junior developers think building a delivery app is just connecting a SQL database to the Google Maps API. If you propose that architecture in a system design interview, you will fail the entire loop in less than five minutes. Here is the brutal reality of how enterprise logistics systems actually track millions of moving drivers. When I started studying system design, I assumed tracking delivery vehicles was as simple as updating a GPS coordinate in a database table every few seconds. But standard relational databases are fundamentally incapable of handling that level of constant, hig
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Most computer science students burn out because they think progress only happens during massive coding sessions. When your schedule is packed with midterms and lectures, waiting for a perfect block of free time is a trap. Here is the simple rule I use to survive the most chaotic weeks of the semester without quitting my projects. It is called the Non-Zero Day rule. A zero day is when you make absolutely no progress toward your goals. We all have days where we are exhausted, out of time, or simply unmotivated. But giving yourself a complete zero day breaks your consistency. It makes it inc
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