Ayush Bhandari

Ayush Bhandari is a skilled software engineer specializing in identity risk, currently employed at Sift since August 2025. Prior to this role, Ayush served as a machine learning engineer at Afiniti from April 2021 to July 2025, where significant contributions included launching a new business line that generated $500K monthly, improving model performance and revenue through advanced feature engineering, and optimizing agent-caller pairing to elevate monthly revenue by $1.8M. Experience also includes positions as a graduate teaching assistant at Khoury College of Computer Sciences, a machine learning engineer at Examity®, and a software application engineer at Genus Power Infrastructure Ltd, as well as volunteer teaching for underprivileged children. Ayush holds a Master of Science in Data Science from Northeastern University and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra.