Software Engineer · Finaptive · prev. AMD

Engineering systems that hold up under real-world constraints.

I'm Yash Bhavsar — a software engineer at Finaptive building production financial platforms, previously at AMD. I work across applied ML, financial-data pipelines, and developer tooling, with a bias toward clean architecture and tests that actually mean something.

01 — Selected Work

Things I've built

  1. 01

    Instaply

    GitHub

    A job-discovery engine that monitors ATS feeds and ranks roles against your résumé — entirely on your machine.

    • Hybrid match scoring — 60% deterministic + 40% LLM judge over local sentence-transformer embeddings; your résumé never leaves the device.
    • Ingests Greenhouse, Lever & Ashby feeds with budget-aware Gemini scheduling and graceful fallback when the quota runs out.
    • 74 modules, 40+ tests, SQLite embedding cache, scheduled digest emails.
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • sentence-transformers
    • Gemini
    • SQLite
    • APScheduler
  2. 02

    Asterion

    GitHub

    A moving-object detection pipeline that finds asteroids in real telescope imagery.

    • 100% recovery completeness for SNR ≳ 11 with zero false positives on injection–recovery benchmarks.
    • Pulls real ZTF survey frames from IRSA and cross-matches detections against SkyBoT to name known asteroids.
    • 5–7 Mpix/s on a laptop; 43 unit/integration/API tests; no-build SPA served over FastAPI.
    • Python
    • NumPy
    • SciPy
    • Astropy
    • FastAPI
  3. 03

    Stride

    GitHub

    An equity screener that surfaces stocks turning from selling exhaustion into early institutional accumulation.

    • Deterministic four-stage funnel: Technical Setup → Hype Filter → Fundamental Floor → Smart-Money Confirmation.
    • Blends yfinance, Finnhub, SEC EDGAR & Reddit signals; every threshold is config-driven so output is fully reproducible.
    • 53 modules, Typer CLI + FastAPI, structured logging, 15+ tests.
    • Python
    • Pandas
    • FastAPI
    • Typer
    • Pydantic
  4. 04

    Code Atlas

    GitHub

    “Google Maps” for a codebase — turns a repo's full history into an explorable knowledge graph.

    • Ingests files, symbols, dependencies, commits & PRs into a graph with ownership, knowledge-concentration (Herfindahl) and risk lenses.
    • Estimates AI-vs-human contribution and recommends the right reviewer for a change.
    • React + Cytoscape front end over a FastAPI / PostgreSQL backend, fully Dockerized.
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Cytoscape
    • FastAPI
    • PostgreSQL
    • Docker
  5. 05

    Trading Engine

    GitHub

    An event-driven algorithmic-trading engine where the risk gate has the final say.

    • A risk gatekeeper sits as a hard gate in front of every order — no strategy can bypass it.
    • Event-bus architecture prevents look-ahead bias; the paper broker simulates slippage & commissions.
    • 34 modules across 8 layers; backtest harness with drawdown / position metrics; YAML-configured.
    • Python
    • Pandas
    • NumPy
    • yfinance
    • Pydantic
  6. 06

    Lunar Landing RL Hackathon 🏆 1st place

    GitHub

    A reinforcement-learning agent that took first place at an RL hackathon by learning to land the LunarLander.

    • Deep Q-Network in PyTorch reaching a 285.3 reward score.
    • Finished 1st out of 50+ competing teams.
    • Python
    • PyTorch
    • Deep Q-Networks

02 — About

Who's building this

I like hard, well-defined problems — systems with real constraints, where correctness and architecture genuinely matter. At Finaptive I build production financial platforms; before that I was at AMD.

Most of what I build leans the same way: deterministic pipelines, applied ML and LLMs used with judgment rather than for show, and tools that make complex systems legible. I care about tests, clean boundaries, and shipping things that hold up after the demo.

B.S. Electrical Engineering — McMaster University.

Yash Bhavsar
Languages
Python · TypeScript · SQL · Java
Backend
FastAPI · Flask · Node.js · REST
Data
PostgreSQL · SQLite · MongoDB · Redis · Pandas
ML / AI
PyTorch · sentence-transformers · spaCy · LLM integration
Infra
Docker · Azure · GitHub Actions · CI/CD

03 — Contact

Let's talk.