I'm Yashraj Wadalkar
Building the future of cloud infrastructure & developer experiences.
UX designer & tinkerer at large @ Google, teaching myself how to code.
From concept to production, building foundational systems.
Architecting for global reach and resilience.
Navigating consumer, enterprise, and complex human systems.
About Me
Yashraj is a UX + systems thinker who has trouble looking at anything—cloud migrations, developer tools, or personal websites—without asking: “What are the objects, how do they relate, and where will this break?”
He works at the intersection of UX, Infrastructure as Code, and socio-technical systems, focused on making complex, invisible systems understandable to humans. His work often involves translating Terraform, networks, and enterprise migrations into interfaces people can actually reason about.
He prefers abstractions that hold under scrutiny, designs for progressive disclosure, and believes good UX is less about screens and more about systems literacy. This occasionally leads to things being thoughtfully overbuilt—but rarely incoherent.
Currently
Rebuilding his portfolio (again), turning anxiety into architecture, and learning that “finished” is sometimes the most elegant design choice.
My Career Journey
An ambient, scroll-driven constellation mapping my path through different roles, projects, and organizations. This is not a resume, but a narrative space to explore my experience.
2022 - Present
Designing developer experiences for core compute infrastructure and modernization tooling.
2021
Redesigned core experiences for Azure DevOps, focusing on improving usability for enterprise-scale teams.
Undergrad '21
Savitri: Redesigning education access in peri-urban contexts, and pIndicator: a transport app redesign for Pune.
2020
Built interactive dashboards for public policy and redesigned the organization's digital stack.
2020
Led collaborations with NGOs to mitigate vaccine hesitancy through targeted IEC content.
2019
Created materials to influence bureaucratic decision-making on nutrition financing in Tier-2 India.
2019
Designed an HRMS for unorganized sector MSMEs for a pre-seed, YC final-round startup.
Featured Work
A curated selection of projects that showcase my passion for building robust and scalable cloud solutions.
Application Modernization
From Monolith to Microservices with IaC
A deep dive into migrating a legacy monolithic application to a modern, scalable microservices architecture using Infrastructure as Code principles and tooling.
Business Impact
Reduction in deployment failures
-80%
Engineering Impact
Developer velocity increase
+60%
Design Impact
System clarity score (SUS)
+35pts
Migration Center Discovery
Radically Redesigning the Gateway to GCP
A UX case study on turning raw infrastructure data into actionable migration insights, redesigning the core client used for GCP adoption.
Business Impact
Reduction in onboarding time
-50%
Engineering Impact
Decrease in support tickets
-70%
Design Impact
Task completion rate
+90%
Project Coming Soon
Detailed case study is under construction.
Modern Analysis Toolkit
Enterprise-Scale Data Analysis & Visualization
Case study on the design and implementation of MAT, a suite of modern analysis tools for enterprise scale, replacing a fragmented and outdated toolkit.
Business Impact
Increase in user adoption
+200%
Engineering Impact
Query performance improvement
10x
Design Impact
User satisfaction (NPS)
+45
Project Coming Soon
Detailed case study is under construction.
In Other Worlds
Beyond pure infrastructure, my work has taken me through diverse socio-technical landscapes—from consumer products at planetary scale to grassroots public policy initiatives.
From the Blog
Exploring the latest in cloud technology, automation, and software engineering.
Why and how the dialectics of the language COBOL, and the system - are a point in time reflection of the complex bureaucratic realities of the financing world, and the enmeshment with the tech that frameworks todays complex transaction realities. These said contradictions, themselves need to be understood and acknowledged.
In an exact contradiction to the title, prototyping is not a myth. My understanding towards it differs in that very aspect, wherein, prototyping in the way I learnt it, is not how the real world of engineering and design prototyping functions. Things are a bit more complex, and layered. This piece is an attempt to examine the practices.
Get in touch
I'm always interested in new projects and opportunities. Feel free to reach out for collaborations, writing/speaking engagements, or open-source discussions.
Let's build something great together.
Engage me for articles or talks.
I'm happy to contribute my labor.
The Source Code
This portfolio is an easter egg in itself. It’s a project I built from the ground up, not just to showcase my work, but as a piece of work itself. Here's a look under the hood.