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title: "YASH SHUKLA - SDE II in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
description: "Meet YASH SHUKLA, SDE-2 @ BlackRock | Java · Distributed Systems · LLM Fine-tuning · RAG | Open to SDE-3 Roles based in Greater Bengaluru Area. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and langgraph. Explore public work links including github and leetcode."
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# YASH SHUKLA on Tal

## 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

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