Yash Kumar Saini
I'm a full-stack engineer working in TypeScript, Node.js and React. I spent the last few years shipping production web apps at Locofast, and I'm now doing an M.Tech in AI and Machine Learning at IIIT Delhi, where I work on computer vision and robotics.
Now
I am building a precision weeding system for wheat crops. It takes RGB-D and NIR camera input, detects weeds with YOLOv8, estimates depth, localizes each weed in 3D, and hands the targets to a ROS 2 robot. The detector currently reaches 0.75 mAP@0.5.
Experience
IIIT Delhi
- Teaching Assistant (part-time)Aug 2025 – Present
I help run tutorials and labs for Data Structures and Algorithms, Advanced Programming, and Mathematics, grade assignments, and help students debug their code.
Locofast Online Services
- Software Development Engineer IIApr 2024 – Aug 2025
- Software Development EngineerJul 2022 – Mar 2024
Full-stack work on a B2B textile platform. I led an online warehouse management system from requirements to production, built Nest.js and Express microservices and serverless AWS Lambda functions, tuned MySQL queries and caching, and shipped Next.js and React features. I also reviewed code, wrote engineering guidelines, and mentored junior engineers.
Projects
Precision weeding for wheat crops
A perception-to-actuation pipeline: detection, depth estimation, 3D localization, then ROS 2. The YOLOv8s detector gets 0.7533 mAP@0.5 with 80% precision and 67% recall.
Neural Vault
An image storage system that encodes images into the weights of a ResNet-101 and reads them back, averaging 42.06 dB PSNR.
Robot arm perception
Object perception and pick-up pipelines for a uFactory Lite 6 (xArm) robot arm using an Intel RealSense depth camera.
Side project
Stranger Chat
An anonymous 1-to-1 text chat: no accounts, no history. Messages are encrypted in the browser and relayed over WebSocket; Redis handles matchmaking.
Education
IIIT Delhi
2025 – 2027M.Tech, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
2018 – 2022B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering · CGPA 7.96
Skills
- Backend
- Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Nest.js, Express, REST APIs, microservices
- Frontend
- React, Next.js, Redux
- Data and cloud
- MySQL, Sequelize, Objection ORM, AWS Lambda, serverless, CI/CD
- AI and ML
- PyTorch, computer vision, YOLO, deep learning