Hi! My Name Is

Aayush Sheth

About Me

I am a software engineer sepcializing in Data and Cloud development using Python and Java. I am a certified AWS Solutions Architect.I love the combination of creativity and problem solving skills used when writing code and I'm always looking forward to learn more.

I'm a natural leader with strong analytical skills which I use to make sound decisions. A positive environment with an emphasis on passion and collaboration is one in which I thrive.

Education

2024-2027

Masters of Science in Artificial Intelligence

Georgia Institute of Technology

2016-2020

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Wilfrid Laurier University

Experience

August 2025 - Present

Software Engineer, E-Transfers

Interac

Architected custom GitHub Copilot prompt configurations across all internal repositories, automating README generation and technical Q&A to accelerate developer onboarding

Led migration of national scale payment infrastructure to JDK 21 and Spring Boot 3.5, leveraging Virtual Threads to enhance concurrency and throughput for real-time transactions

Reduced DB load by 25% via EhCache implementation and JPA projection optimization across 600+ files, elimi- nating redundant DAO overhead and improving response times

Developed a real-time detection layer for blacklisting high-risk accounts and emails, integrating service logic with Spring Data JPA for instantaneous transaction blocking

Engineered an asynchronous Scoring Engine retry layer using Spring Async and ActiveMQ, ensuring non-blocking processing and high-availability persistence for risk audits

March 2022 - April 2025

Software Engineer, Data Streaming Platform

IBM

Facilitated onboarding sessions for new team members, conducted training sessions on Kafka, API development, and best practices to enhance team skills and knowledge

Automated Kafka consumer lag monitoring and configurations for high-throughput streaming pipelines, reducing lag by 30% in high-availability environments

Collaborated with DevOps to automate deployment for 50+ ML data connectors using Jenkins and OpenShift, enabling real-time model inference at scale

Executed zero-downtime, multi-terabyte production data migrations on AWS while optimizing security and performance for real-time enterprise inference engines

Developed a Spring Boot data switch for 30+ REST APIs to allow seamless read-switching between MongoDB and Oracle, resulting in a 25% improvement in average response times

Developed Kafka connectors to facilitate efficient and reliable data communication between different components of the system

January - August 2021

Software Engineer, High Value Payments

Scotiabank

Developed classification rules within payment engine using Java causing an increase in the overall success rate of high value payments from 86% to 90%

Improved name matching rate from 8 hours to 2 hours within payment hub by implementing fuzzy string matching algorithm

Created dashboard for analyzing and visualizing payment metrics such as success rate, uptime, fraud rate, etc. using Python, MySQL and PowerBi

Used python to setup ETL pipeline for report processing, reducing data processing time from 1 hour to 5 minutes and used SFTP to automate report email distribution

Skills

Python

90%

Java

85%

SQL

80%

AWS

80%

Kafka

70%

Projects

Baseball Risk Optimizer

Built a high performance dashboard that uses a random forest trained on historical data for real-time sports data modeling to give go/no go recommendations for base stealing

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Recommendation System

Built a movie recommendation system with Jupyter that uses a SVD and collaborative filtering approach to find latent vectors from the Movielens 100k dataset, which are then used by the model to make rating predictions and recommend unseen movies

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Image Processing Library

Wrote an image processing and classification library in Python that applies various filters on images such as scaling, sharpening, etc. using convolution matrices and classifies digits using feature vectors and connected components

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