# Ashwath Krishnan > Senior Software Engineer @ Capital One Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ashwath NYC-based software engineer interested in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States - Designed and built machine learning and statistical models using Python (PyTorch and TensorFlow) as part of Capital One Cyber's Automated Access Control initiative. - Created model monitoring scripts in Python and Bash to ensure performance and reliability, optimized the models' AWS infrastructure, and built serverless functions in AWS Lambda to publish model output to consumers. - Led the end-to-end planning, development, and deployment of the Entitlement Risk Score statistical model, assigning quantified risk levels to Capital One's ~400,000 internal accesses at a 99.85% satisfaction rate among entitlement owners. - Enhanced the accuracy of a transformer-based language model for the Automated Access system by integrating a critical data source, boosting model performance by 12% for a high-impact user subset responsible for 16% of access requests. ### Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States - Designed and implemented user-facing screens for the iOS (Swift) and Android (Kotlin) versions of Capital One's commercial banking app, Intellix Mobile. - Developed backend endpoints with Golang and contributed to the migration of infrastructure from AWS EC2 to AWS Fargate. - Led the development of feature toggle functionality, enabling the application to switch between states without requiring new app releases. - Spearheaded the integration of the Marathon test automation tool, enhancing CI/CD pipelines by enabling automated mobile testing on emulated devices and increasing the test coverage of the Android application by 31%. ### Technology Development Program Associate (Software Engineer) @ Optum Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Collaborated as part of an agile software development team to enhance UnitedHealth Groupʼs Individual Insurance website, UHOne.com, aiming to improve customer retention throughout the insurance shopping experience by adding features such as application saving and help drawers. - Developed front-end components using AngularJS, implemented backend endpoints with .NET Core and Microsoft Azure Active Directory, and managed integrations with an Azure CosmosDB database. ### Teaching Assistant - CMSC250 (Discrete Structures) @ University of Maryland Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | College Park, Maryland, United States Teaching Assistant for a university level discrete mathematics course, where my main responsibilities include: - drafting homework and exam questions - grading homework assignments and exams - holding office hours to clarify student doubts ### Student Instructor - CMSC389E (Digital Logic Design Through Minecraft) @ University of Maryland Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | College Park, Maryland, United States Teaching a computer science course on digital logic design through the lens of the popular game, Minecraft. All concepts and techniques taught in the class are demonstrated through completing tasks within Minecraft using the in-game Redstone mechanic that mimics real-world circuitry. Main responsibilities include: - delivering lectures on digital logic theory and design - writing homework and project descriptions - working with and integrating class Minecraft mod with UMD's project submission server - creating video tutorials and other supplementary content - managing class logistics (grades, announcements, exams, lectures, etc) ### Technology Intern @ Optum Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States Worked as a member of an agile data science team on a project attempting to forecast flu levels in various regions based on Google search trends in those regions. Main responsibilities included writing python scripts for data collection, exploratory data analysis, factor analysis, linear and symbolic regression, and neural network integration. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Commvault Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Tinton Falls, NJ Created a Chrome extensions using React.js to help the web developers at CommVault easily review UI components. Allowed web developers to easily select HTML elements on the page, take rectangular screenshots, and add comments, while keeping all of this data in a centralized repository. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Commvault Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Tinton Falls Continued work on Windows Application using Appache's Solr Engine that accesses archived mail data without the need to use Solr's Admin UI. Improvements for this time period include batch updating, paging improvements, and introducing SolrCloud into the application. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Commvault Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Tinton Falls, NJ Worked on a Windows application using Appache's Solr engine which allowed a user to access documents stored in Solr without use of the Admin UI, if they had the required credentials. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Vydia Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Holmdel, NJ Worked on strict typing using Facebook's Flow framework for a cross-platform mobile application and a web application. In addition, I worked on converting the company's development setup from a virtualization environment (Vagrant/Virtualbox) to a containerization environment (Docker). ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science University of Maryland Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 ### High School Diploma South Brunswick High School Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashwathkrishnan --- Source: https://flows.cv/ashwath JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ashwath/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22