Nitheesh Kodarapu

Software Engineer Intern, watsonx Orchestrate · San Jose, CA

• Designed a RAG faithfulness evaluation pipeline using NLI entailment and embedding similarity on a hand-labeled 3,000-query golden dataset; the team adopted the top of 3 benchmarked retrieval backends, reducing hallucinations 35% at 94% citation precision.
• Developed asynchronous services syncing 65,000+ GitHub issues into IBM DB2, replacing GitHub's UI with a structured, filterable view and shortening triage time ~30%.
• Parallelized a 1,200+ test Playwright and pytest suite with pytest-xdist that gates every release of IBM's flagship agentic AI platform.
• Created a full-stack telemetry dashboard (Next.js, Django REST API) to track client quality metrics across rapid releases.

Undergraduate Researcher, Efficient LLM Systems · College Station, TX

• Co-authored a paper on LLM quantization and energy efficiency, currently under review at ACM SIGMETRICS.
• Wrote the benchmarking software automating the paper's experiments, and ran every test measuring energy by quantization level.

Houston, TX

Software Engineer Intern · Houston, TX

• Created a map-based dashboard (React, Python) overlaying NOAA weather events on customer locations, shifting sales from waiting for customers to call to proactively contacting those affected.
• Enabled the sales team to reach 1,200+ impacted customers within 24 hours of a weather event.

Aggie Schedule Builder Plus

Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, LLMs, Next.js, Chrome Extension

• Founded and built the first version of the platform and Chrome extension, now used by 900+ Texas A&M students.
• Recruited and onboarded 3 contributors to co-maintain it, setting the architecture and reviewing their changes.
• Engineered an LLM pipeline turning 90,000+ reviews into cited summaries for 5,000+ professors, auto-rejecting unsupported claims and eliminating 86% of API calls to fit a free quota.
• Built data pipelines loading 5.7M+ student grades from 14 years and 140,000+ class sections into PostgreSQL, powering grade distributions and open-seat alerts.

Parallel Graph Crawler

C++, Win32 API, Multithreading

A multithreaded C++ BFS crawler using lock-free atomic bit-arrays and batched queues, kept correct across 5,000 concurrent threads.

Blackjack AI

Python, PyTorch, OpenCV

A custom CNN that recognizes playing cards in real time and recommends the optimal blackjack move.