Sneha BirruDecorative mark

CS & Applied Math @ University of Washington

Prev @ Netflix, Uber, JPMorganChase

ML Research @ UW Medicine

About

Hi! I am Sneha, a junior at the University of Washington studying Computer Science and Applied Math, interested in infrastructure, distributed systems, and building software that scales.

Experience

  • UW Medicine

    Mar 2024 — Present

    Machine Learning Research Fellow

    Modeled 300K+ emergency department records to identify key predictors of care delays and surface operational bottlenecks.

  • Netflix

    Jun 2026 — Sep 2026

    Software Engineering Intern

    Developed an AI agent with the Strands Agents SDK to diagnose access-control decisions in one query, establishing the foundation for agentic debugging across the authorization platform.

  • Uber

    Jan 2026 — Apr 2026

    Software Engineering Intern

    Engineered a fault-tolerant distributed file ingestion system using Uber Cadence, scaling from ~50-file manual batches to 100K+ automated async downloads.

  • JPMorganChase

    Jun 2025 — Aug 2025

    Software Engineering Intern

    Optimized GPU-accelerated fraud models on millions of transactions, increasing detected fraud dollars by 8.7% monthly while reducing training runtime by 80%.

  • HuskyADAPT

    Oct 2024 — Jun 2025

    Software Developer

    Created accessibility-first mobile apps used by 40+ youth with disabilities, earning 2nd place globally at the RESNA Student Design Challenge.

  • Cartogram

    Jul 2022 — Aug 2022

    Software Engineering Intern

    Drove migration of a production iOS app from Objective-C to Swift by architecting database entities and implementing Google Maps SDK features.

Education

  • University of Washington

    B.S. Computer Science

    Sep 2023 — Jun 2027