Summary
Yeshwanth Raja is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of experience building data and AI-driven systems, combining an MS in Computer Science from RIT with hands-on expertise in Python, deep learning, and data engineering. He has delivered production-grade pipelines and CI workflows at financial and fintech firms like Wells Fargo and Avant, and architected analytics and SAP Fiori solutions for enterprise reporting at JELD‑WEN. His research background at HP and IIT Madras produced practical computer vision and OCR improvements—one project achieved a 6x speedup on embedded NVIDIA platforms—showing a knack for squeezing performance from constrained hardware. Comfortable across the stack, he bridges research and product needs by turning ML prototypes into reliable deployments using tools like Airflow, PySpark, TensorFlow, and S3. He keeps an active technical footprint on GitHub and brings a pragmatic, performance-first approach to imaging and data-science challenges.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Computer Science at Sri Venkateshwara college of engineering
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
High school, Science, High school, Science at Abu Dhabi Indian School
Tamil, English, French, Arabic, Hindi