Headline

SDE-2 @ BlackRock | Java · Distributed Systems · LLM Fine-tuning · RAG | Open to SDE-3 Roles

About

Backend-focused Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building high-performance distributed systems in fintech and financial services. Currently at BlackRock, working on regulatory reporting systems, gRPC migration, and AI-assisted reconciliation workflows using Google ADK. Previously at Paytm, built core transaction infrastructure for the debit card product. Recently fine-tuned CodeLlama-7b using QLoRA for Java code review — achieving 94% structured output accuracy vs 0% for the base model. Open to SDE-3 roles at product-based companies. Skills: Java · Spring Boot · Distributed Systems · gRPC · Kafka · LLM Fine-tuning · QLoRA · HuggingFace

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude code

claude

langgraph

ollama

windsurf

huggingface

Work experience

SDE II at BlackRock, Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India

Software Engineer at Paytm, Aug 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Software Engineer at Infosys Limited, Jun 2021 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Education

BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, jaypee institute of information technology

Public links

github: https://github.com/C0ffeeMachine

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/yashshukla195