Harsh Seth

About Me

Self driven engineer with rich NLP and product development experience at PayPal, currently honing my RL and AI skills at UMass Amherst. Let's connect!

Location

Amherst, MA
Education
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
    September 2023 - May 2025
    degree
    Master's
    major
    Computer Science
    coursework
    Reinforcement Learning
    Intelligent Visual Computing
    Advanced Natural Language Processing
    Secure Distributed Systems
    Artificial Intelligence
    Algorithms for Data Science
    VIT University
    July 2016 - May 2020
Work Experience
    PayPal
    Software Engineer 2
    Bangalore, KA, India
    April 2022 - July 2023
    company
    PayPal
    title
    Software Engineer 2
    overview
    • Solutioned and implemented a major redesign of PayPal's Billing Agreement Experience which handles 14% of core PayPal TPV across 200 markets globally • Proposed and wrote efficient low-level solutions in TypeScript and Java to power highly distributed, low latency web services serving delightful, responsive, and accessible world-class experiences • Planned and managed work for a team of 8 engineers as Scrum Master, at mean say-do ratio of 92% • Trained several cohorts of SDE 1s in Web Development fundamentals and interviewed 35 candidates for various Engineering roles across the Payments, Data Sciences, Commerce Platforms domains • Received Key Talent Award in the 2023 rewards cycle, and was 3-time winner of a Spot Award
    PayPal
    Software Engineer 1
    Bangalore, KA, India
    August 2020 - March 2022
    PayPal
    Intern
    Bangalore, KA, India
    January 2020 - July 2020
    VIT UNIVERSITY
    Software Developer
    Bangalore, KA, India
    March 2017 - May 2020
    PayPal
    Intern
    May 2019 - July 2019
Skills
Languages
EnglishHindi
Skills
Agile MethodologiesApache KafkaArtificial IntelligenceAutomationBackend ProgrammingBig DataBilling ProcessesBlenderCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Computer ProgrammingComputer VisionConvolutional Neural NetworksC (Programming Language)C++ (Programming Language)Customer SupportDeep LearningDistributed SystemsDjango Web FrameworkDockerDocument ClassificationExpress.jsFigmaFull Stack DevelopmentGenerative AIGitGoogle BigqueryGraphqlGraph TheoryImage ProcessingInformation RetrievalInformation TechnologyInfrastructure as a Service (IaaS)Java (Programming Language)JavaScript (Programming Language)JIRAKaggleKerasKibanaKnowledge of EngineeringKnowledge of MathematicsLATEX (Document Markup Language)Linear AlgebraLow LatencyMachine LearningMicroservicesModeling and SimulationModelling SkillsNatural Language ProcessingNode.JsNoSQLOpenCVPandasParallel ComputingProblem SolvingProgramming LanguagesPython (Programming Language)PytorchReactJSReinforcement LearningRequirements AnalysisRestful APIsScience EducationSciencesScrum MethodologySearch EnginesSimulationsSoliditySystems DesignTeachingTransfer LearningTypeScriptWeb CrawlersWeb DevelopmentWeb Services