India, June 2 -- Mumbai-born software engineer Santosh Yadav has shared the remarkable story of his rise from living in a slum for nearly three decades to building an international career in technology and eventually moving to Germany. Yadav today works as the Principal Developer Advocate at CodeRabbit in Germany, and is known in the developer community as an Angular Google Developer Expert (GDE), GitHub Star, open-source contributor and international speaker.

On Monday, he shared a now-viral X post showing two pictures of him and his wife. The first one was taken in 2012, and the second in 2026. The post led to several comments on their transformation and also prompted Yadav to share a blog post about his journey.

Yadav said he spent m...