Abhinav Yedla

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Experience

Booz Allen Hamilton

software engineer i → ii · jul 2024 – present

Lead OTCnet's AI-in-SDLC track. Own engineering breakdown, task assignment, and stakeholder reviews. Grew from the only AI engineer to a ~10-person team.
Wrote the AI risk and tradeoff scoring framework used to decide which use cases to build.
Built the Section 508 triage system: Playwright + axe-core scan, multi-model Azure OpenAI classification under RAG. Cut false-positive burden on the accessibility team by ~90%.
Triage output routes as Azure DevOps work items. Testers review and dispose, dispositions roll to Power BI. The model never makes the final compliance call. Deployed in Azure Gov (FedRAMP High).
Built a Security Impact Analysis tool (NIST 800-53 CM-4): React + FastAPI wizard with a two-pass LLM workflow and deterministic merge so the model fills fields but never writes the document.
Built an offline term-mapping tool for de-identification outbound and re-identification inbound. Adopted across five teams.
Designing a natural-language query service over OTCnet financial data. Role-scoped access enforced outside the model, row-level security, model writes SQL but never touches the database. POC.
Led the Jira to Azure DevOps migration. No data loss.
Own ~80% automated test coverage across OTCnet's payment workflows (Python, Selenium, Playwright) plus performance testing via Azure Load Testing.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Software Engineer I · Jul 2024 - Nov 2024

OTCnet: Manual Test Engineering

Owned manual test coverage for OTCnet's federal payment workflows under CitiBank-managed delivery.
Executed functional and regression testing to ensure production stability. Identified edge cases and managed the defect lifecycle from discovery to verification.

DoE: Cloud Infrastructure (Kubernetes)

Contributed to Kubernetes-based cloud migration for Department of Education workloads across containerized microservices.
Built declarative infrastructure-as-code with Terraform and AWS CDK. Implemented idempotent deployment patterns for consistent system state.
Helped deliver the Kubernetes-based MVP enabling scalable, compliant, cloud-native deployment inside Booz Allen's Trusted Environment. Contributed to VPC setup and CI/CD pipelines.

DoE: FAFSA AI Assistant

Designed and built an AI-powered navigation agent to help students complete FAFSA applications, targeting high support volume and low-income aid-access bottlenecks.
React frontend, Flask backend, GPT-3.5 via OpenAI API, and a LangChain RAG architecture over federal financial aid documentation.
Won the firm-wide Booz Allen AI innovation competition (200+ attendees including senior leadership). Awarded dedicated R&D engineering hours. Development paused when the DoE contract restructured.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Software Engineering Intern · May - Aug 2023

Built an automated federal procurement data harvester in Python on the USASpending API with error handling, retry logic, and server management. Reduced data retrieval latency from days to minutes.
Performed competitive analysis on a 50M+ row federal spending dataset using regression and clustering to surface agency procurement patterns.
Modernized Booz Allen's TFX internal platform with a full-stack overhaul: React/JS/HTML/CSS frontend bridged to a Flask/SQL backend.

MetLife

Software Engineering Intern · May - Aug 2022

Built cross-platform automation in JavaScript and PowerShell to standardize production server recovery workflows.
Provisioned and maintained a distributed documentation environment on AWS EC2 with automated S3 migration pipelines.
Identified and resolved performance bottlenecks in MetLife's 1Desk Automation platform, significantly reducing execution latency on high-frequency workflows.

Projects

VTaaSvideo transcoding as a service

NestJS · ECS Fargate · S3 · SQS · FFmpeg · Postgres · Upstash Redis · GitHub Actions

Async video transcoding on AWS. Presigned S3 uploads, SQS job queue, FFmpeg workers on ECS Fargate. The interesting part was the cost engineering: an on-demand system that hibernates the stack after idle and resumes Fargate Spot in ~4 minutes. Monthly bill went from $58 to fifty cents.

diagnosed in production

An AWS SDK version bump changed CRC64NVME checksum behavior and silently broke every S3 download. Admin credentials in local dev bypassed the check that surfaces the error, so it was invisible until CloudWatch.

A missing s3:ListBucket on the ECS task role made S3 return 403 on HeadObject instead of 404. Without list permission S3 can't confirm non-existence and falls back to access denied. Confirmed with an IAM policy simulation.

2llmai memory migration

Next.js · Vercel Edge Functions · Anthropic API · Upstash Redis · Stripe

Converts AI memory exports between providers. Shipped during the ChatGPT-to-Claude migration wave. ~8,500 Reddit views and 75 early users. BYOK, no server-side key storage. Open-sourcing soon.

diagnosed in production

sessionStorage key leaked across error paths. A request failing mid-stream skipped the finally block in certain edge cases, leaving the user's API key in storage after the session should have cleared it. Traced through every exit route to make sure cleanup runs on partial failures and aborted requests.

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Education

Georgia Institute of Technology · M.S. Computer Science (OMSCS) · Fall 2026

University of Maryland · B.S. Computer Science · Spring 2024

FIRE Scholars Program, Sustainability Analytics

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect Associate · Amazon Web Services · July 2025

AWS Cloud Practitioner · Amazon Web Services · 2024

Oracle Certified Associate, Java SE 8 · Oracle · March 2025

Technical Skills

Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, C/C++, SQL, Bash, PowerShell, R

Frameworks: React, Next.js, NestJS, Node.js, Express, Flask, FastAPI, Prisma, LangChain, docxtpl

Cloud: AWS (ECS Fargate, S3, SQS, ECR, IAM, CloudWatch, EC2, ALB, SSM), Azure (AI Search, Functions, DevOps, Gov), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS CDK, Vercel, Linux

Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Neon, Upstash

Testing: Selenium, Playwright, JUnit, TestNG, Jest, Vitest, JMeter, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Git

AI: OpenAI API, Anthropic API, Vercel AI SDK, RAG, Prompt Engineering, LLM Governance