Yash Ashtekar
Undergraduate Research Assistant
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYash Ashtekar is an electrical and computer engineering student at Purdue with a decade of hands-on experience across software engineering, data science, and hardware design. He has led cross-functional teams and served as Scrum Master on projects scaled by AstraZeneca, while also developing ML-driven trading algorithms and conservation tools using Django and Python. As an undergraduate researcher he built a Generative AI conversational assistant for healthcare workers, deploying a model that explained complex analyses to clinicians and informing real-world decisions. Industrial internships at Cummins involved modernizing AUTOSAR build environments and automating CI workflows with Docker and AI agents, cutting build and test times substantially. Comfortable across backend, frontend, and embedded toolchains, Yash combines practical optimization skills with a knack for translating prototype work into production-ready processes. He balances technical depth with outreach—mentoring large classes as a TA and coordinating high-impact student projects that bridge academia and industry.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University College of EngineeringBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (6)
risc4
assembler4
simulator4
risc-v2
iot1
microcontroller1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ybharatu/personal_website
Aug 2019 - Dec 2024
The code supporting my website
Contributions:6 PRs, 73 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 5 months
supporting
ybharatu/useful_scripts
Sep 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:15 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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