About the creator
Yash Kumar Sinha
Computer Science at VIT Vellore · India
I'm a computer science student at VIT Vellore, graduating in 2027. What gets me going is software that works for many people at the same moment: live dashboards, chat, multiplayer games, and now documents.
At Tejas Networks I built a document platform on my own, with versions, approvals and permissions. It made one thing clear. Programmers have had branches for years: take a copy, try something risky, merge it back only if it works. People who write together still have tracked changes and files named final-v3-really-final.docx.
So I built LowKey: the editor, the sync and branching engine underneath it, the server, and the privacy groundwork for launching in India. I care about the details people notice, like a resume that imports as one page or a phone screen that never scrolls sideways.
LowKey is in beta now, opening to a new group every few days. If you try it, tell me what works and what doesn't. I read everything.
The road to LowKey
- 2025
Maruti Suzuki India
Summer intern. A real-time SAP monitoring dashboard with live alerts over WebSockets and Kafka.
- 2026
Tejas Networks
Software engineering intern. Built Tejas Smart Doc on my own: a document platform with versioned workflows, fine-grained permissions and live updates for 400+ people at once.
- 2026
LowKey
Everything I learned about documents and real-time systems, in a product of my own.
What I built into LowKey
- Live editor
- Many people typing in one document, with cursors, offline edits that sync later, and comments with @mentions.
- Branches and merging
- A three-way merge by paragraph, a review before every merge, a choice on conflicts, and undo.
- History
- Snapshots you name yourself, automatic versions, safety copies before merges and restores, and a branch tree.
- Pages
- Page view, page setup, Word import that keeps the layout, and export to PDF, Word, Markdown and HTML.
- Workspace
- Folders, organisations with roles, sharing that takes effect on live connections at once, and full-text search.
- Privacy
- Consent, data download and account deletion built to India's DPDP Act 2023 and the IT Rules 2021.
Elsewhere
- HetFedMCU
- A federated learning framework for clusters of small, mixed microcontrollers. Co-designed; patent published by the Indian Patent Office.
- Chess360
- Real-time multiplayer chess in Go, with ELO matchmaking and a chess engine written from scratch.
- ACMONE
- The internal app for 80+ members of ACM VIT: announcements, shared resources, meeting notes and an event calendar.
- ACM VIT
- Senior core member. Mentored 20+ juniors and led teams of 15+.
Get in touch
Feedback, bugs, or just hello: message me on LinkedIn, or send a report from the app.