# Sahil Yerawar > Infosys | MS Computer Science Student at UMass Amherst | Ex-Yahoo | Ex-Software Engineer @ Honeywell| GSoC 2018 @ Polly Labs |CSE Alumnus @ IIT Hyderabad Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/sahilyerawar Experienced Embedded Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the embedded software applications. Skilled in Python (Programming Language), C, C++, HTML, and Microsoft Office. Strong engineering professional with a Btech (4 years) focused in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Open for Job opportunities related to Software Engineering, Data Scientist and Machine Learning. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Infosys Jan 2025 – Present ### Graduate Student Researcher @ Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst Jan 2023 – Present | Amherst, Massachusetts, United States Working with IESL lab at UMass Amherst Sep 2023 - Dec 2023 - Finetuned Language Models to improve zero-shot decision-making performance of RL agents by 33% - Performed error & qualitative analysis on model to show the validity of our approach. Work got accepted at NAACL 2024 Findings Conference Jan 2024 - Present - Investigating utility of latent information of future tokens in improving the language generation beyond the autoregressive inference framework ### Software Engineer Intern @ Yahoo Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Amherst, Massachusetts, United States - Orchestrated optimization of Yahoo Map Search’s autoscaling services, leveraging time series forecast predictions to increase resource utilization by 20% and significantly reduce operational expenditure by 96% - Built data cleaning procedures and slack scrapers to gather incident data for training Summarization LLM’s ### Back End Developer @ Snazzy Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Designed and implemented a microservice-based backend for user-website and doctor android apps of Snazzy. - Developed a general backend for admin-portal for internal management of all the users and deployed it successfully across the organisation. Currently the integrated backend serves about 50+ users and works with a latency of about 50ms in average. - Worked with Golang, AWS and wrote the backend systems for remote patient monitoring from scratch. - Led the backend team of about 5 engineers and decided on the optimal tech stack, database schema design and the deployment pipeline. ### Research Assistant @ Department of CSE, IIT Hyderabad Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India Under the guidance of Dr. Srijith P.K. and Dr. Maunendra Desarkar, worked on developing semi-supervised models to apply knowledge distillation of privileged features to predict using only commonly available features of community question answer datasets. This work has been selected as a short paper at the KDIR 2022 conference. ### Research Assistant @ Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Kharagpur, West Bengal, India Under the guidance of Dr. Pawan Goyal, worked on a project to evaluate different post-hoc explainability algorithms used on top of recommender systems and tried to develop a metric measuring the explainability quality of these methods. ### Software Engineer @ Honeywell Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Hyderabad Member of Displays and Graphics Team in Aerospace Domain. Responsible for developing display applications for Aircraft Cockpit Systems. Major Achievements: - Developed Android applications for a cloud based solution for Runway Traffic Navigation. - Responsible for writing clear and concise requirement documents for some of the core products in the Display applications. - Responsible for modularization of Displays software to reduce testing time by more than 50%. ### Google Summer of Code 2018 @ Google Summer of Code Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 I had worked on extending the support of Polly Loop Optimizer to the Chapel Compiler. Find out more about the project here. http://pollylabs.org/gsoc2018/Compiling-Chapel-with-Polly-and-LLVM.html ### Student Mentor @ Sunshine-The counselling Cell of IITH Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad Area, India I am a student mentor and addressed to the issues of freshers who are newly inducted to the college. ### Web Coordinator @ TEDxIITHyderabad Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad Area, India TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a non-profit media organization which posts talks online for free distribution, under the slogan "ideas worth sharing"​. TEDx events are TED-like conferences organised under a license from TED. ### Core Member @ Kludge, The Information and Security Cell, IIT Hyderabad Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad Area, India ### Coordinator @ Robotics Club, IIT Hyderabad Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad Area, India ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science University of Massachusetts Amherst ### Btech (4 years) in Computer Science Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad ### DAV Public School, Pune ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sahil-yerawar-275222101 --- Source: https://flows.cv/sahilyerawar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/sahilyerawar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13