Yianna Kokalas
Role
Staff software engineer
Experience
About a decade
Primary stack
Ruby / JS / Go

One engineer, team output.

I’m a staff software engineer at an enterprise software company, working on large-scale systems and AI. I’ve been shipping software professionally for about a decade, across consulting, marketplaces, media, and enterprise SaaS, mostly in Ruby, JavaScript, and Go.

Nights and weekends I build and operate a production side project, together with a fleet of Claude coding agents. One engineer, team output: approved tickets become merged pull requests and production deploys while I’m at my day job or asleep.

I also write Yianna & Claude Whitepapers, a series about building and operating a production side project. Read them at /whitepapers.

Authorship and editing. These papers began as a collaboration between me and Claude. I now review and revise them with Astra, an OpenAI model, as my editor. I make the final calls on what they say and what gets published.