# Omkar Yadav > SWE at Meta | CSE @ UMich Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/omkaryadav ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Research Assistant @ University of Michigan - School of Information Jan 2023 – Present | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States - Designing new machine learning architectures to embed stylistic features into components of LLMs to determine predictiveness of a given piece of text compared to an author’s overall writing style - Researching and developing novel stylistic embeddings that allow machine learning models to explicitly perform explainable inference when determining the source of an excerpt ### SI 670: Applied Machine Learning Instructional Aide @ University of Michigan - School of Information Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States - Assisted in creating lecture slides and learning objectives focusing on important topics that graduate students would need for their future careers in industry and research - Drafting homework assignments and test questions that help graduate students learn the applied side of supervised and unsupervised learning ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Developed a machine learning model to accurately predict millions of missing internet traffic flow values for a given 24 hour period, allowing well informed traffic routing, significantly reducing the likelihood of congestion events globally - Researched and designed forecasting models, custom validation metrics, and inference strategies with customers and stakeholders to create a financially efficient pipeline that helps downstream software optimize internet traffic routes - Assisted in building a service that creates change log information used in routing calculations, reducing data staleness from 15 min to 1 min, decreasing overall latency experienced by all AWS customers ### Machine Learning Team Lead @ Michigan Hackers Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States - Writing lesson plans and demos to convey introductory machine learning topics in a digestible format for over 200 undergraduate students - Leading 4 machine learning projects for advanced students in text summarization, sentiment analysis, music, and music generation ### Member @ Michigan Hackers Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States - Assembled an Alzheimer’s classification model to help physicians detect Alzheimer’s at an early stage, performing at an 82% accuracy rate across five folds - Conducted data preprocessing to eliminate cofounding and irrelevant features from an Alzheimer's data set ### Machine Learning Student Researcher @ ProQuest Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States - Wrote efficient scripts to preprocess millions of academic dissertations, extracting meaningful features used for our machine learning pipeline - Trained machine learning models to determine the academic success of emerging research topics achieving a metric score of 60% - Researching state-of-the-art approaches to topic modeling and machine learning architecture to build a system that can predict the popularity of a given research topic over time ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Created AWS Glue scripts to autonomously join real time data, assisting network engineers in alleviating high severity tickets that cause outages for millions of AWS customers - Developed a centralized user interface through AWS quicksight to enable network engineers to determine areas of high congestion during influxes of traffic, mitigating latency delays for clientele 50% faster - Designed a metrics dashboard with relevant metrics that quickly identified issues regarding my service’s health, allowing engineers to efficiently locate bugs thus mitigating customer impact ### Co-Creator & Software Developer @ M-Navigate Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 - Coded a React Native mobile application with over 4000 downloads, aiding students to find their University of Michigan classes and buildings - Constructed an SQL database and a REST API using Google cloud infrastructure to efficiently transfer large amounts of data to mobile devices ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States - Built a centralized system leveraging AWS Eventbridge to enable services to publish events and trigger asynchronous actions, saving team members 3 hours a week from repeatedly pulling API data - Generated an algorithm to find the change in objects after database operations, enabling third-party services to autonomously audit changes in our application - Instilled AWS Lambda to produce an event-driven architecture workflow to automate data alteration, eliminating 5 hours of work for engineers weekly ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Michigan College of Engineering Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States - Developed an autonomous pipeline to detect whether patients have any types of cancer-based on histopathology image slides - Adapted a deep learning model to conduct image segmentation for tumorous regions in Bladder Cancer patients ### Research Assistant @ University of Iowa Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Iowa City, Iowa, United States - Performed literature analysis regarding coresets in shape fitting to solve clustering problems - Proposed a methodology from a literature survey to find weak coresets in 2 and 3 dimensions ### Software Engineer @ Nexant Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Remote - Created a Django application to dynamically graph California ISO, helping my team visualize energy trends over years of time, saving 10 hours per week - Designed an SQL database that updated daily ISO data, allowing users to make real-time decisions based on millions of data points - Crafted a user-friendly frontend, helping data visualization become more accessible for my team ### Computer Programmer @ National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Coralville, Iowa, United States - Built an application using Node.js to help create custom diagrams to help my team document a driving simulator - Developed a javascript script to convert JSON data to XML for diagram mapping - Added functionality to mxGraph so users could save and download data through hard disk memory and browser storage ### Software Developer @ Collins Aerospace Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States - Improved computational efficiency of backend algorithms to reduce runtime of payroll calculations by 6-8 hours per day - Developed a utilization software that enabled my team to track efficiency and hours worked in the lab - Extended existing engineering testing application by adding HTML forms and corresponding SQL tables that allowed engineers to better organize products for consumers reducing 4 hours of work per week ## Education ### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science University of Michigan College of Engineering ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Major in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics University of Michigan College of Engineering ### Dual Enrolled Courses in Mathematics and Computer Science University of Iowa ### High School Diploma West Senior High School ### Bridgeport High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/omkar-yadav-umich --- Source: https://flows.cv/omkaryadav JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/omkaryadav/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05