✨ Building something :)

Software Engineer

I am excited about AI-powered products, distributed systems, machine learning models, and thoughtful developer experiences!

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📍 San Francisco, CA · GitHub · LinkedIn

const esha = {
  focus: ["AI", "backend", "full-stack"],
  ships: "production systems at scale",
  style: "curious, rigorous, kind",
  now: "building agents :)"
};

40M+Customers supported

Tier-1 Uber membership service

10B+Rows analyzed

Uber Eats ML ranking

20+ CS Courses3.85 Duke GPA

CS, AI/ML Concentration

About

Computer Science, AI/ML, Finance, and Production Engineering

Hi, I'm Esha! I am a Duke CS graduate with an AI/ML concentration and finance minor. I like turning ambiguous product and data problems into robust systems, from GenAI infrastructure to ML ranking systems and backend projects.

Duke University

B.S. Computer Science · AI & ML Concentration · Finance Minor · Dean’s List with Distinction

Industry

Built at Uber, Amazon, and Duke OIT across membership, discovery intelligence, data governance, campus tooling, and research!

Leadership

Uber Career Prep Distinguished Alumni Program Lead, DTech VP, Duke Technology Scholar, CS Sidekicks Instructor, FEMMES+Hacks Track Lead, and more!

Experience

Shipping Systems with Measurable Product Impact

Uber

Software Engineer · Uber One Membership

Jun 2025 — Mar 2026

Backend engineer on a Tier-1 service supporting 40M+ customers across multiple production codebases. Implemented a migration for a critical fares endpoint, unblocking multiple teams and projects. Built 32 server-driven UI screen variations and resolved international production issues.

Go · gRPC · Java · Kafka · Redis · SQL · Grafana · Bazel

Uber

Machine Learning Engineering Intern · Discovery Intelligence

Sep 2024 — Nov 2024

Optimized Uber Eats product bundling ranking recommendations, improving AUC by 3%, recall by 2%, and precision by 2%. Worked with 10B+ row datasets and built pipelines for relevant-item impressions and brand diversity.

PrestoSQL · Spark · Airflow · ML Platforms · YAML

Amazon

Software Engineering Intern · Data Governance Services

May 2024 — Aug 2024

Designed and built a Generative AI service that became core infrastructure for department GenAI tools. Deployed an 87%-accuracy beta chatbot and architected APIs, a database, cloud resources, and tests.

Python · Java · TypeScript · LLMs · LangChain · AWS Bedrock · Kendra

Amazon

Software Engineering Intern · Data Governance Services

May 2023 — Aug 2023

Enhanced a notification system used by 5,000 monthly customers, expanded seven APIs, created 25+ React components, and shipped hierarchical notifications.

TypeScript · React · Java · AWS Lambda · DynamoDB · CloudFormation

Projects

Selected projects from GitHub, research, and production work.

Audience Choice Award

Movie Betting Application

A MERN + OAuth application for social movie predictions and betting-style gameplay.

Research + Publication

ViTA-DXF CAD Autograder

A web app that autogrades CAD assignments independent of CAD tooling, built with Flask and React.

Qiskit

Quantum Image Encryption

Explored image encryption and decryption workflows using quantum computing primitives.

Production at Duke

Campus Issue Reporter

A web app for the Duke community to report campus issues and track resolution status in real time.

Algorithms

Autocomplete Search Algorithm

Implemented performant autocomplete search with attention to data structures and ranking behavior.

Frontend

Weather Application

A polished weather app focused on API integration, interaction design, and responsive UI.

Contact

Let’s build something excellent!

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