Ashwani Braj

Software Engineer @Yelp

Toronto, ON, CA

Team: Applied Machine Learning - SignalsSome work areas:LLM Development & Deployment: Fine-tuning and deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance search relevance and user experience. Leveraging Hugging Face, OpenAI, and Amazon Bedrock to integrate state-of-the-art generative capabilities into Yelp’s ecosystem.​Signal Engineering: Architecting robust data pipelines and signal generation workflows. These signals are critical inputs for core ML models and drive targeted marketing campaigns across the platform.​Infrastructure & Scale: Managing large-scale data synchronization through Yelp’s internal pipelines, ensuring data freshness and reliability for downstream modeling tasks.

Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - SMU

Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering

University of Florida

Master’s Degree, Computer Science