Yashas Bhat

I'm a CS & Math student at UMD, graduating in 2027. I like building LLM-powered tools, backend systems, and developer infrastructure. Most of my projects start as problems I wanted to solve for myself.

Open to Summer 2026 Internships

Resume · GitHub · LinkedIn


Experience

AmazonAmazon Project Kuiper · Student Developer · Jan – May 2024

Built APIs for satellite collision avoidance and a blockchain-integrated Space Safety Visualizer.

PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLHyperledger
Bharat PetroleumBharat Petroleum · SWE Intern · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025

Built an ML anomaly detection system to identify fraudulent distributors from transaction data.

Pythonscikit-learnpandasPCA
Children's National HospitalChildren's National Hospital · Student Developer · Aug 2024 – May 2025

Architected TrachSense, an IoT platform for real-time airway monitoring with low-latency alert streaming.

PythonFastAPIWebSocketRaspberry Pi

Skills

Languages · Python, Rust, TypeScript, Java, SQL, OCaml, C/C++

Backend · FastAPI, Node.js, PostgreSQL, REST APIs, WebSockets

AI/ML · LlamaIndex, scikit-learn, OpenAI/Gemini APIs

Tools · Docker, Git, AWS, Linux, Embedded Systems


Projects

Know · Local Semantic Search CLI

Hybrid search CLI with persistent vector store and incremental indexing.

PythonLlamaIndexChromaBM25

Walker · Concurrent Link Validator

High-performance Rust CLI for validating URLs in parallel.

RustTokioreqwest

Canvas MCP · LLM Course Assistant

MCP server enabling LLM clients to query Canvas coursework data.

TypeScriptMCPCanvas API

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Education

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University of Maryland · B.S. Computer Science, Minor in Math
2027 · GPA: 3.57 · View Resume ↗

thoughts · ybhat@umd.edu · github · linkedin