# Siddhant Bhagat

> Founding Engineer @ Fifteenth

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/siddhantbhagat

I'm a Software Engineer interested in Product, Platform, and Infrastructure.

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Fifteenth
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### CSE Tutor @ UC San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department (CSE)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | La Jolla, San Diego
Supported over 600 students during office hours with questions on programming and assignments. Graded around 80 submissions per week and helped design coursework focused on Java and object-oriented programming. Worked across a broad set of topics, from core programming concepts to using command-line tools.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Edifecs
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Bellevue, Washington, United States
Built a real-time speech-to-text interface using WebSockets and JavaScript, integrating AWS Transcribe for live transcription. Improved medical vocabulary recognition by 12% by comparing outputs from multiple services (OpenAI, Google Cloud, Amazon Transcribe, Assembly AI). Since its release in June, precision and recall have improved by 3%. Also worked with LLaMA 2 and transformer models during development.

### Junior Data Scientist @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Analyzed four years of Walmart’s supply chain data using SQL and a network simulator. Used pandas and scikit-learn for data cleaning and comparison, helping reduce cloud storage by over 5TB. Streamlined data processing workflows, which cut down simulation errors by 28% and improved run-time efficiency by 35%, helping shape the tool into an MVP for internal teams.

### Software Development and Research Intern @ Lava International Limited
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New Delhi, Delhi, India
• Conducted research on software development for machine-human interfaces, including biometric technologies.
• Implemented a thumb print recognition feature, resulting in a 30% increase in user satisfaction.
Developed and implemented a new feature allowed users to unlock their phones quickly and securely using thumbprint recognition technology, resulting in a 30% increase in user satisfaction

### Software Development and Research Intern @ STJ Electronic Pvt. Ltd
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New Delhi, Delhi, India
Explored the mechanics of biometric fingerprint and retina scanners, gaining a deep understanding of their backend implementation through hands-on experience with over 15 devices and 2 software platforms: VeriFinger and BioAPI.
Utilized my knowledge to contribute to testing over 1000 biometric devices, leading to the successful design and production of a custom finger scanning biometric unit that demonstrated 91% accuracy and was selected for the next stage of testing after learning PCB design.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics and Computer Science
UC San Diego

### High School Diploma
Modern School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/siddhantbhagat8

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Last updated: 2026-04-05