COMPUTER SCIENCE • AI/ML • SYSTEMS
I build software where intelligence meets reliability. From AI systems to fault-tolerant infrastructure, I'm interested in turning complex technical problems into products that are fast, scalable, and useful.
Computer Science student at USF exploring AI/ML, distributed systems, and data-driven engineering.
I'm a Computer Science student at the University of South Florida building across AI, software systems, and data. I like taking ambiguous ideas and turning them into working products — from intelligent applications and internal tools to reliable backend systems and user-facing interfaces.
Most recently, I worked at Nucor building AI-enabled internal tools and data solutions. Outside of internships, I work on research, technical projects, and campus initiatives while continuously experimenting with new systems and technologies.
Focus areas: Applied AI/ML, software engineering, distributed & data systems
Currently exploring: Agentic AI, RAG, neuromorphic computing, and production-scale ML systems
Internships, research, campus work, and technical leadership.
Software Engineering Intern — AI & Data
Built AI-powered internal tools using Azure OpenAI, AI Foundry, RAG, and multi-agent orchestration for enterprise workflows. Contributed to data and analytics modernization through Databricks, ETL pipelines, backend orchestration, and predictive-maintenance use cases.
Undergraduate Researcher — AI Systems
Researching neuromorphic computing, spiking neural networks, and efficient AI systems. Working with recent research, simulations, and frameworks such as snnTorch while exploring applications for next-generation computing and data-center workloads.
Marketing Lead / Digital Experience
Lead digital content and student-facing campaigns for campus health initiatives across web content, social strategy, event promotion, and digital experiences that make health resources more accessible and engaging.
IT Support & Systems
Supported students and staff across Microsoft 365, Canvas, account access, and university technology systems. Resolved high-volume technical issues while working with enterprise tools, documentation, and support workflows.
Vice President External
Lead external partnerships, outreach, sponsorship initiatives, mentorship programs, and industry-facing opportunities — building relationships between students, companies, and the broader engineering community.
Marketing Lead
Support technical programming and developer-focused events while shaping outreach, branding, and student engagement. Previously led hands-on workshops including Python-based projects and beginner-friendly technical sessions.
Workshops Lead
Develop and coordinate technical workshops focused on practical engineering and software skills, helping students gain hands-on exposure to tools and concepts used beyond the classroom.
Student Ambassador
Led creative and technical workshops for 100+ students, helping them explore Adobe tools through practical sessions, demonstrations, and campus programming.
Selected work across distributed systems, applied ML, and computer vision.
Double-entry payments ledger with 0 balance errors across 50,000+ seeded fault-injection tests. Idempotency keys and a transactional outbox to Kafka prevent duplicate charges on network timeouts, and ID-ordered row locks sustain 3,200 transfers/sec at <35 ms p99 without deadlocks.
Real-time fraud decisioning that cut expected fraud losses 36% vs. a rule-based baseline by tuning LightGBM thresholds to business costs. Scores 1,500+ Kafka events/sec at <18 ms p99 with Redis velocity features, attaches top-3 SHAP reason codes to every blocked transaction, and monitors drift with PSI.
Open to internships, new grad roles, and interesting collaborations. The fastest way to reach me is email.
nishthakukreja09@gmail.com