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Yashwant Bezawada · Senior Tinkerer · Memphis, TN

I build things with AI — and actually ship them.

Senior AI engineer at FedEx by day, compulsive tinkerer by night. This is the log — what I've shipped, what I'm currently breaking, and what's humming in the homelab right now.

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NOW

last deploy 2026-07-02 latest “Why I'm Excited About AI Agents” tinkering DeepRealty Advisor BONTEN: 22 services up

ledger: 1,000,000+ images processed · 291 dev tools shipped · 2 live products · 1 over-built homelab

01 / README 2 min read

About

Hey — I'm Yashwant. I like teaching machines to do useful things and then arguing with them when they don't. At FedEx I build GenAI systems that real customers actually touch; off the clock I'm usually knee-deep in a side project or rewiring the homelab.

What I actually enjoy is the boring-hard part — taking a flashy research paper and turning it into something that survives production, a pager, and its own bad ideas. Technology's just the tool. Curiosity is the thing that keeps the log growing.

role:
Software Engineer Advisor, GenAI @ FedEx
based:
Memphis, TN
homelab:
BONTEN (i9-14900KS · RTX 4090)
education:
M.S. CS, George Mason · B.Tech, KL University
02 / WORK.LOG 5 entries

Work

2022 — NOW

Software Engineer Advisor (GenAI) @ FedEx

Collierville, TN · September 2022 - Present

  • Developed a Gen AI–powered customer-facing chatbot for shipment tracking, scheduling, and account queries that significantly increased user engagement and accelerated response times.
  • Led a team to develop a multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) chatbot integrated with the FedEx knowledge base, streamlining access to packaging standards and enabling employees to quickly locate relevant documentation, cutting helpdesk resolution times.
  • Collaborated with product and infrastructure teams to define a generative AI roadmap, contributing to operational efficiency improvements and driving innovation in associate tools and automation.
  • Architected end-to-end MLOps pipelines to streamline deployments, enhance reliability, and enable server inference for continuously re-trained models.
  • Migrated mission-critical applications to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), reducing deployment times by 65% and strengthening security measures, saving $800K annually.

stack: PCF · Microsoft Azure · Java · Spring Boot · SQL · Cassandra · Microservices · Azure OpenAI API (GPT4) · Falcon 40B · LLaMA (7B) · LangChain · Pinecone · Redis · HuggingFace Transformers

2020–22

Software Engineer II @ FedEx

Collierville, TN · November 2020 - August 2022

  • Developed and maintained global enterprise-level pricing solutions that impact internal pricing users and external customers across the globe to support FedEx's business strategy and goals with a customer-first ideology
  • Spearheaded multiple application modernization efforts including Legacy to CloudOps Migration, WebLogic to Spring Boot Conversion, Spring Boot Admin, API Gateway and Service Discovery adoption
  • Developed Enterprise Discount Database (EDD) Archive-Purge process dramatically reducing the Database growth rate in GBs and cutting down the overall DB size by 11 TB
  • Modernized legacy applications by migrating them to cloud-native microservices, cutting maintenance costs by 20% and reducing system downtime by 30%

stack: Java · SQL · JMS · Shell · WebLogic · Spring Boot · Cloud Native Microservices · PCF · Maven · Angular · Ab Initio · Jenkins CI/CD · Cloudbees Flow

2019–20

Software Engineer Intern @ Navy Federal

Vienna, VA · December 2019 - May 2020

  • Responsible for refactoring existing disputes system using Payment and Dispute Management Suite from Visa and Verifi
  • Implementing software for customer-facing products and internal corporate tools
  • Part of the NFCU Digital Labs team using Agile methodologies, including Scrum, pair programming, behavior-driven development, and user-focused design
  • Refactored dispute management system components, reducing processing times by 40% and increasing user satisfaction by 25%

stack: Pivotal Cloud Foundry · Microsoft Azure · Java microservices · Spring Framework · Maven · Angular · Selenium/Postman testing · Azure DevOps CI/CD

2 earlier entries (expand)
2017–18

Software Engineer @ SmatSocial

Hyderabad, India · June 2017 - July 2018

  • Integrated Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube & Google+ APIs to be used as connectors in the platform
  • Developed an extensive module to edit and detect image similarities using computer vision techniques
  • Optimized backend to reduce load times with no tradeoffs by developing algorithms that could detect feed similarities both in text and images
  • Lead a team of three to orchestrate a Chrome Extension to be used as a website assistant
  • Developed a News Aggregator Application to compile news from various sources
  • Developed an algorithm to rank person's social impact ranking based on their online presence
  • Wrote complex webscrapers to get million+ text samples to be trained on AI engine
  • Developed a robust module to store & maintain user info by integrating AWS S3 APIs into the system

stack: Python · AWS S3 · MySQL · Social Media APIs · Web Scraping · Computer Vision · NLP

2018–19

Graduate Teaching Assistant @ George Mason University

Fairfax, VA · December 2018 - December 2019

  • GTA for IT Problem-Solving Using Computer Programming (IT 106) and Object Oriented Java Programming (IT 206) courses
  • Summarized concepts, conducted labs and formulated questions for assignments
  • Mentored over 100 students in programming fundamentals and object-oriented concepts

stack: Java · Python · Teaching · Curriculum Development

03 / BUILDS 6 builds

Builds

v1.4 SHIPPED

Remove-BG.io 1M+ images processed

2024

Free, instant AI background removal — no signup, full HD, actually free.

  • handles people, products, animals, cars, and graphics at full HD
  • transparent backgrounds, background replacement, and pro effects
  • drag-and-drop simple; used by photographers, e-commerce, and devs

stack: Python · FastAPI · Computer Vision · Image Segmentation · TensorFlow · Astro

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v1.0 SHIPPED

Planwright.io

2024

AI-powered development platform that keeps teams honest about code quality.

  • AI mentorship that reviews and guides in real time
  • task orchestration that heads off technical debt before it lands
  • insights for developers, PMs, and leadership alike

stack: Python · FastAPI · LangChain · GPT-4 · Next.js · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kubernetes

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v0.3 TINKERING

DeepRealty Advisor

January 2025

AI property-search assistant that does the tedious research for you.

  • Playwright-driven browser automation and data validation
  • CrewAI + LangGraph agents rank listings against your actual preferences
  • produces reports you can make a decision from

stack: Python · FastAPI · Playwright · BeautifulSoup · Azure OpenAI · LangChain · CrewAI · LangGraph

v0.9 TINKERING

Conversational AI Platform

March 2024

Real-time support + knowledge-retrieval chatbot with a multi-agent brain.

  • LangChain + Falcon 40B + Azure OpenAI, Pinecone vectors, Redis sessions
  • CrewAI/LangGraph coordinate multi-agent dialogues

stack: Python · FastAPI · LangChain · Falcon 40B · Azure OpenAI · Pinecone · Redis · CrewAI · LangGraph

v0.5 TINKERING

BitEdit.io

July 2024

Streamlined developer workflows with AI-based content creation baked in.

  • simplifies tool setup for dev workflows
  • Stable Diffusion + HuggingFace Diffusers for content generation

stack: Python · FastAPI · Vue · Docker · AWS · Cloudflare · Stable Diffusion · HuggingFace Diffusers

v1.0 RETIRED

WikiSource OCR

June 2017 · the one that started it

Django web app that OCRs PDF/DJVU files straight into WikiSource pages.

  • Google Drive OCR API pipeline updating WikiSource in place

stack: Python · Django · Google Drive OCR API

04 / STACK MANIFEST 6 groups

Stack

# ai/ml

Large Language Models (GPT-4, Falcon 40B, LLaMA) , Generative AI , RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) , Prompt Engineering , Fine-Tuning , Transformer Models , Computer Vision , NLP , MLOps Pipelines , HuggingFace Transformers , Azure OpenAI API

# frameworks

LangChain , Spring Boot , Spring Framework , FastAPI , React , Next.js , Angular , Vue.js , Docker , Kubernetes (AKS) , HuggingFace , Pinecone , Redis , Maven , WebLogic , JMS

# languages·dbs

Python , Java , TypeScript , JavaScript , SQL , Shell Scripting , Cassandra , MySQL , Ab Initio

# cloud·devops

Microsoft Azure , AWS (S3, EC2) , Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) , Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) , Jenkins CI/CD , Azure DevOps , Cloudbees Flow , MLOps , Microservices Architecture , Git

# testing

Selenium , Postman , JUnit , Web Scraping , BeautifulSoup , IBM Watson , Visa/Verifi Payment Systems

# methodology

Agile (Scrum/Kanban) , Test-Driven Development (TDD) , Behavior-Driven Development , Pair Programming , Continuous Integration & Deployment , User-Focused Design

// no proficiency bars. they're always made up anyway.

05 / PING

Say hello 👋

Don't be shy — say hi. I'm always up for a good conversation about AI, homelabs, or literally anything interesting.

# github · @yashwantbezawada · 50 public repos · 22 followers

// recent public pushes — the good stuff is in private repos, honestly.