Vaishnavi Khosla
Software Developer II at Bank of America | Backend Systems, AI-Assisted Engineering & Enterprise Security
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Vaishnavi Khosla is a Software Engineer with over 5 years of experience building scalable, secure distributed systems and full-stack applications for enterprise and consumer platforms. She currently works as a Software Developer II at Bank of America, where she helps design and operate a mission-critical financial access-governance platform used by thousands of internal users. Her work includes developing 20+ RESTful and GraphQL APIs, leading the migration of core services from Angular to React, and building event-driven systems with Apache Kafka and Neo4j.
She focuses on backend engineering, cloud-native microservices, and enterprise security practices like SSO, MFA, OAuth 2.0, and RBAC, particularly in highly regulated environments where reliability and compliance are critical. She also has hands-on experience using AI-powered and AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot in her development workflow to improve code quality, testing, and overall efficiency, and regularly mentors junior engineers on using these tools responsibly.
Before joining Bank of America, Vaishnavi built full-stack platforms at Byju's, an EdTech company in India, and at Braza Tires, working with React, Node.js, and distributed backend systems for both consumer and B2B products.
She holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Banasthali Vidyapith. She speaks on topics including backend architecture, AI-assisted software development, and security in enterprise and financial systems.
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What Junior Developers Actually Lose (and Gain) With AI Coding Assistants
AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot have changed how quickly junior engineers ship code, but speed isn't the same as growth. In this talk, I share real, specific incidents from my own team, including a two-line change that turned into a full file rewrite because of an under-specified prompt, and a production bug caused by incomplete testing after an AI-assisted change. I also share where these tools genuinely accelerated learning, like helping engineers pick up React hooks and patterns far faster during a major framework migration.
This talk is not a generic "AI is good" or "AI is bad" take. It's a practical, engineering-manager's view of what's actually changing in code review, mentorship, and onboarding, and concrete habits that help junior engineers build real skill instead of just shipping fast. Attendees will leave with specific review practices, mentorship adjustments, and advice they can use with their own junior engineers starting the next day.
Target audience: engineering managers, tech leads, and senior engineers who mentor or review code for junior developers. Preferred duration: 25-30 minutes plus Q&A. No special technical requirements. This will be my first public conference talk on this topic.
Bank of America - Internal Cybersecurity Talk
Delivered an internal talk on enterprise authentication and access control practices, covering topics such as SSO, MFA, and RBAC in regulated financial environments.
Vaishnavi Khosla
Software Developer II at Bank of America | Backend Systems, AI-Assisted Engineering & Enterprise Security
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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