# Ashima Sharma > Software Engineer | 5 YOE | Full-Stack (Python • Node.js • React • Java • Spring Boot) Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ashima Software Engineer | AI/ML | Full-Stack Development | Solutions Engineer Keen to apply my software development skills to impactful projects. Let's connect! ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Metis Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA » Built and shipped a production-ready 0 to 1 MVP, architecting a scalable React + Javascript frontend with a reusable component library. » Implemented Redux state management with strict typing and improved client performance via code-splitting and lazy loading. » Developed secure Flask APIs with authentication, input validation, error handling, and PostgreSQL integrations. » Delivered real-time application features using WebSockets / Socket.IO and designed event-driven workflows with Google Cloud Pub/Sub. » Designed and implemented an AI report generation service that produces structured reports from work orders and conversational user inputs. » Built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system to retrieve context from internal documents and historical work orders to improve response accuracy. » Engineered a document ingestion pipeline to parse uploads, extract structured JSON with Gemini, store artifacts in Google Cloud Storage (GCS), and index content for retrieval. » Implemented enterprise SSO and role-based authorization using WorkOS, enabling fine-grained permissions and multi-tenant access control. » Built and deployed containerized microservices on Google Cloud Run with Container Registry, supporting reporting, file uploads, RAG processing, and email notifications. » Strengthened reliability with unit/integration testing, static type checks, peer reviews, and automated CI/CD pipelines on GCP. ### Researcher I @ University of Alabama at Birmingham Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | United States » Developed finite element datasets and applied RandomForest models (scikit-learn) to predict stress-strain behavior in soft robotics. » Validated machine learning models against test data using Python (NumPy, Pandas), optimizing input features to increase prediction accuracy. » Automated data preprocessing and model training pipelines, training workflows, enhancing model iteration speed by 40%. » Created data visualizations using Matplotlib and Seaborn to analyze model outputs and guide hyperparameter tuning. » Modularized Python scripts for simulation and model integration, enabling scalable experimentation and streamlined version control with Git. » Collaborated in Agile teams to refine algorithms, monitor model performance, and improve deployment pipelines. ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Alabama at Birmingham Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 📚📚 CS 667 Machine Learning | 📚📚 CS 685 Fundamentals of Data Science ✅ Responsibilities include creating and grading coursework, exams, and assignments, conducting weekly office hours, and providing mentorship to students. ### Software Developer @ CybHop Tech LLP Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | India » Developed scalable full-stack applications using Python (FastAPI) for backend services, with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery on the frontend, ensuring seamless UI/UX and robust backend architecture. » Designed and developed Python microservices using FastAPI, enabling scalable and modular architecture across multiple projects. » Built responsive React UIs using Redux, Bootstrap, and JavaScript, enhancing UX and reducing page load time by 40%. » Implemented secure JWT and OAuth2-based auth, protecting access for 50k+ users with encrypted token handling and role-based control. » Utilized MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL for large-scale data operations, optimizing queries and schema for 30% faster retrieval. » Integrated Pandas, NumPy, and Celery for efficient data processing and asynchronous task management, boosting backend throughput by 25%. » Deployed microservices using Docker, Kubernetes on AWS EC2 with CodePipeline and Jenkins CI/CD, streamlining deployment cycles. » Used AWS S3, RDS, and Lambda to create cost-effective, event-driven architectures, achieving greater system scalability. » Maintained high standards of code quality and performance, continuously integrating feedback to optimize applications. ### Software Engineer @ Taboola Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Gurugram, India » Designed and developed large-scale full-stack AdTech applications using Java (Spring Boot), Node.js, and React.js, supporting content recommendation, campaign management, and publisher monetization workflows. » Improved API performance and caching strategies using Redis and asynchronous task queues, achieving 40% faster page loads. » Deployed and managed AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda) with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, looper and AWS CodePipeline. » Spearheaded Agile sprints, backlog grooming, and sprint planning, ensuring smooth project execution and timely delivery of features. » Mentored junior developers, sharing best practices in Python, Java, Spring Boot, and full-stack development, fostering a collaborative culture. » Enhanced system observability by implementing logging and monitoring solutions using ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and Prometheus, reducing debugging time by 30%. » Refactored legacy .NET based modules to align with modern microservices architecture and contributed to prototype services in Java, enabling phased migration and technology modernization. » Optimized front-end performance by implementing lazy loading, code splitting, and tree shaking in React.js, improving initial load time by 35%. » Implemented robust unit, integration, and end-to-end testing frameworks using JUnit, Jest and Postman/Newman, ensuring high test coverage with a threshold of 80% using SonarQube and functional consistency across Java-based microservices, reducing production defects and deployment risk. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science University of Alabama at Birmingham ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering CHANDIGARH UNIVERSITY ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashima-sharma-2a3147171 - Portfolio: https://aashima.vercel.app/ - GitHub: https://github.com/Ashima0518 - Portfolio: https://aashima.vercel.app --- Source: https://flows.cv/ashima JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ashima/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-19