# Bhashya Sheth

> Actively seeking Full time opportunities | CS grad @vtech | Former CS undergrad @VJTI

Location: Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bhashya

## Work Experience
### AI Software Engineer @ NEXTXAP INC
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
Designed and implemented an LLM-powered chatbot to schedule appointments, capable of understanding and classifying 50+ distinct user sentiments for more natural and context-aware conversations.
Built end-to-end conversational pipelines in Python, integrating NLP models, embeddings, and sentiment classifiers with downstream scheduling APIs.
Applied prompt engineering and memory/state management techniques to maintain multi-turn conversations.

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Finick Solutions
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Designed and deployed a collaborative filtering recommendation system on AWS (Lambda + API Gateway), driving 12% conversion uplift and 15% longer session durations.
Built feature pipelines on Apache Spark (EMR) using user interaction, product catalog, and review streams from Kafka + S3, generating ML-ready behavioral and product embeddings.
Implemented matrix factorization models in PyTorch (ALS) with automated retraining workflows, optimized for low latency and top-k recall accuracy.
Developed Streamlit dashboards to monitor CTR, recall@k, and NDCG, enabling cohort-based evaluation and actionable insights for stakeholders.
Integrated model outputs into production via FastAPI microservices (Docker, Kubernetes, Redis cache) and collaborated on A/B testing frameworks to validate performance

### Software Developer @ Finick Solutions
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Re-architected legacy PHP/MySQL monolith into MERN-based microservices, enabling horizontal scalability for 50k+ concurrent users and reducing system bottlenecks.
Designed and deployed RESTful APIs with Node.js + Express, integrating real-time shipment tracking and transactional services with low-latency SLAs.
Implemented CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) with automated unit/integration tests, achieving faster, safer deployments and reducing release errors.
Optimized database design and query performance, improving response times by 30% and ensuring reliability during peak traffic.

### Frontend Developer @ Katonic AI
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Migrated a server-rendered app to a React-based SPA, improving load times and maintainability. 
Contributed TypeScript-based components and assisted in building modular frontend dashboards. 
Participated in Agile sprints delivering scalable features aligned with engineering best practices.


## Education
### Masters in Computer Science
Virginia Tech

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)

### High School Diploma
Narsee Monjee Educational Trust's - Jamnabai Narsee School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bhashyasheth

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Last updated: 2026-04-05