Yashil Vora

Experience

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  Yonder Deep

  Sept 2022 - Dec 2023

  Our goal is to be the first undergraduate group of students to design a 3D printed, low-cost, and fully Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) which will allow for the implementation of several sensor types for oceanographic and climate change research.● Have worked on implementing the GUI● Programming the autonomous navigation algorithm for other AUV● Adding features to manually control the AUV● Work with the electrical and mechanical teams to integrate the software components into the AUV and make sure that it is fully functional in our pool tests. Show less

  • Jr. Software Lead

    Jun 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Software Developer

    Sept 2022 - Jun 2023
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  UCSD Computer Science & Engineering Society

  Feb 2023 - now

  ● Founder of CSES Open Source, a community that focuses on zero barrier to entry, real-world, impactful projects.● Spearheaded contributions to 3 open source projects, with teams of 6-8 developers accomplishing weekly milestones.● Led CSES TritonScript, an initiative to make resources for students at UCSD more accessible and help enrich their educational experience by building a collaborative platform and deploying it as a web app. ● Worked on developing this web app using the MERN Stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js) and open-sourcing it to students at UCSD.● Managed a board of 10 members & team of 20 developers, overseeing project development, milestones, PRs, and fostering collaboration while pushing the growth of the open source community at UCSD through events and workshops. Show less ● Part of the CSES board and leadership.● Lead and mentor teams of developers and designers in building projects from scratch.● Conduct technical workshops to equip students with project-building skills and ensure timely goal achievement.● Collaborate with board members to accomplish organizational goals and attend weekly meetings.● Organized inclusive CS community events, career fairs, prof. talks, & internship panels for ~2000 students.● Oversaw & drove the growth of an open-source project, developing a note-sharing web app built using MERN stack. Show less

  • President (CSES Open Source)

    Sept 2023 - now

  • Software Developer

    Jun 2023 - Oct 2023

  • Projects Chair

    Feb 2023 - Sept 2023
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  ACM AI @ UCSD

  Apr 2023 - Jun 2023

  Software Developer for ACM Projects

  ● Developed MBTI personality predictor using a Twitter dataset. ● Build a neural network using PyTorch and deployed the model on Streamlit.● Made a multi-page web app that allows the user to interact with the model and give it some text to predict their MBTI personality.

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jun 2023 - Sept 2023

  Software Engineer Intern

  ● Developed an NLP and ML model POC in Python to analyze ~500 JSON-formatted annual reports from 8 companies, extracting critical insights and keywords to summarize the data and analyze trends across different corporations.● Conducted in-depth data analysis on annual reports spanning two years. Utilized data analysis techniques to generate word clouds of the top 20 frequent words and data maps for visual insights.● Built a custom Word2Vec model to generate word embeddings for further ML applications within the project after implementing several preprocessing techniques to clean up the data such as tokenization and lemmatization.● Implemented Text summarization using Transformers pipeline and Hugging Face API by running the data through the pipeline to get a summary of the reports. Show less

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  UC San Diego

  Sept 2023 - now

  ● Instruct college students (class of ~400 students) how to code & debug in Java, write Shell Scripts, & use GitHub.● Lead lab groups while facilitating discussions and proposed curriculum revisions to the professor.● Grade lab reports (~100 lab reports) and proctor skill demonstrations where students are supposed to complete a series of practical tasks and apply their technical knowledge to achieve an end result.

  • Engineering Learning Commons (ELC)- Tutor

    Feb 2024 - now

  • CSE Tutor

    Sept 2023 - Jan 2024
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  UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE)

  Oct 2023 - now

  Student Researcher

  ● Researched preserving endangered languages (Chickasaw, Hawaiian) by training LLM’s on audio/textual data in Dr. Solares' lab.● Webscraped data using BeautifulSoup and Bash scripts to collect audio files and textual translation.● Implementing Huggingface API and Transformer architecture to train custom NLP model and use transfer learning.● Explored bioinformatics by analyzing genomic data, utilizing Meryl and Merqury for k-mer generation and quality checks.● Skilled in distributed computing using Bridges2 servers and exploring Ray.io for efficient workloads. Show less

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  Personal AI

  Jun 2024 - Sept 2024

  Backend Software Engineer Intern

  • Integrated Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, and InfluxDB to build 7 Grafana dashboards, visualizing 60+ metrics (e.g., latency, error rates), improving system performance analysis and data visibility by 80%.• Developed robust, asynchronous backend logging system for InfluxDB by writing middleware for APIs to process 220,000+ daily logs efficiently.• Proposed and implemented changes to make persistence processing of NATS messages to Elasticsearch asynchronous and redesign backend system to improve efficiency by over 50% in Python.• Developed new service and deployed using Docker to automate and schedule jobs (weekly querying, graphing(matplotlib) from PostgreSQL/Elasticsearch). Used async processing to boost efficiency by 65%.• Developed POC to dynamically chunk & stream LLM response to the frontend using NodeJS and Typescript increasing user engagement by 80%. Show less