YASH KUMAR

San Jose, CA

yash.arunkumar@gmail.com


ABOUT ME

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I'm a Software Engineer from India who is currently pursuing his Masters from San Jose State University. I worked at Fidelity Investments for 3 years after my undergrad in CS from NIT Nagpur on various projects. I am extremely passionate about Distributed Systems & Cloud Technologies, currently working on the AWS Solutions Architect - Associate certification. I have built some cool projects, working on more, and very open to summer internship opportunities in the US!


Beyond the professional space, I am a HUGE Arsenal fan, and have been one for over two decades. I would consider myself a sports fanatic as I follow Football, F1, and Basketball with casual interests in Baseball, American Football, Cricket, and Volleyball. I also love anime and video games, so I'm really just stuck to my screen all day.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Software Engineering

Aug 2024 - May 2026

San Jose State University (SJSU), San Jose, CA

GPA: 3.90/4.00

Relevant Coursework: Enterprise Distributed Systems, Enterprise Software Platforms, Software Systems Engineering


Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering

Aug 2017 - May 2021

Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, India

GPA: 3.66/4.00

Relevant Coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms, Object Oriented Methodology, Database Management Systems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer, Fidelity Investments

Aug 2022 - Jul 2024

  • Designed a resilient data migration pipeline for 60M customer & account records from legacy to cloud database.
  • Worked on 2 critical micro-services in Spring Boot for live polling & decoding of transactions, and post-processing after migration, integrating with the rest of the data pipeline.
  • Created Data Model in collaboration with business teams for the migrated data in cloud.
  • Built Tableau dashboards for portfolio managers, automating their daily manual work; Optimized SQL Queries to speed up loading time by 60% and wrote scheduled PL/SQL scripts.

Executive Graduate Trainee, Fidelity Investments

Aug 2021 - Jul 2022

  • Managed the SDLC of 25 full-stack applications in Spring Boot and Angular.
  • Migrated 10 applications to the new CI/CD pipeline which used Terraform & Jenkins Core.

Software Engineering Intern, Fidelity Investments

May 2020 - Jun 2020

  • Developed ETL jobs in Spring Batch to save over millions of dollars in licensing & maintenance of legacy software.
  • Wrote automated tests for same in an agile environment.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

NextMeal: AI-Driven Restaurant Platform, SJSU

Oct 2024 - Dec 2024

  • Designed and implemented a distributed system to create an AI-driven restaurant platform deployed on AWS cloud.
  • Developed microservices in Spring Boot & Python and deployed using ECS; integrated with AWS services like SQS, RDS (PostgreSQL), DynamoDB (NoSQL), S3, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch Service.
  • Created an AI Assistant using OpenAI API, implementing RAG architecture.
  • Used Docker (images stored to ECR) and Git Actions for automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Built a Recommendation Model using Yelp data to generate restaurant recommendations for users.

DevOps, SJSU

Sep 2024 - Nov 2024

  • Deployed a basic Flask web-application on Containers (via Docker) and Virtual Machines (via Vagrant) and captured various metrics to create a comparison report between the approaches.
  • Broke the project into two microservices and deployed to a Kubernetes cluster (via Kind) for orchestration.

Soccer Analytics

Oct 2023 - Nov 2023

  • Created a player comparison and recommendation system in Python through clustering mechanisms.
  • Devised and implemented mathematical models and data visualizations in Python using advanced metrics for season simulation and performance analysis.

Vision-based Sign Language Translator, VNIT

Aug 2020 - May 2021

  • Developed an efficient real-time Sign Language Translator using Python's Image Processing libraries.
  • Performed extensive data synthesis & cleaning to obtain 99% validation accuracy & 91% real-time accuracy.
  • Specialized model's ability to handle varying backgrounds, orientation, and illumination levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Languages: Java, Python, C++, SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server), JavaScript, HTML, CSS
  • Frameworks: Spring Boot, Angular
  • Software: Tableau, Docker, Kubernetes, Git
  • Cloud: AWS (Solutions Architect - Associate certification in progress)