Resume
Nikhil Venkatachalam |
4556 Saint James Dr Plano, TX 75024 (309) 992-1343 |
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| SUMMARY Honors College Purdue Student, currently a Rising Senior, aiming to leverage my abilities to design and develop software systems. Self-motivated, adept at quick learning, and capable of working effectively with minimal guidance. WORK EXPERIENCE Generative AI Based Meal Planner App: 11/21/24 - Present Designed and developed a meal planner program and recipe book for a startup that creates a customized meal plan viewable in calendar format based on user preferences. Utilized React (Next.js) for frontend, Python for backend, and GPT-4o for meal plan output. Deployed the app using AWS Amplify with Lambda functions and API Gateway for backend integration. Undergraduate Data Science Researcher (The Data Mine - Purdue University): 8/19/24 - 5/1/25 Designed and implemented web scraping solutions with BeautifulSoup and Selenium, and trained an NER model to recognize and effectively categorize manufacturing terminology. Collaborated within an Agile team to address challenges involving web scraping and NER modeling for the Knudsen Institute. Undergraduate Data Science Researcher (The Data Mine - Purdue University): 1/8/24 - 4/26/24 Collaborated with a team of data analysts to produce detailed data visualizations, including directed graphs, bar charts, and pie charts. Utilized Python and R programming as well as Agile development as part of a team to conduct complex data analysis for CAS Chemicals. PROJECTS Personal Site on AWS: Aug 2024, Jul 2025 Developed a responsive personal website in AWS using Terraform for infrastructure as code. Implemented hosting with AWS S3, security and content delivery with AWS CloudFront, and domain management with AWS Route 53. Honors Research Project: Jan 2025 - May 2025 Conducted AI-driven election forecasting research advised by Professor Yexiang Xue, utilizing machine learning algorithms to analyze political data and predict electoral outcomes. HarvardX Data Science Projects: Summer 2023 Created two data science projects where machine learning algorithms and visualizations in R programming were utilized to identify which movies and car brands were better than the others. |
EDUCATION Purdue University (WL) Rising Senior (Computer Science: Machine Intelligence Track, Honors College, Applications in Data Science Cert) RELEVANT COURSEWORK Computer Architecture (CS 25000) Systems Programming (CS 25200) Data Mining and Machine Learning (CS 37300) Intro to Artificial Intelligence (CS 47100) Analysis of Algorithms (CS 38100) AWARDS/CERTIFICATIONS AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner HarvardX Professional Data Science Certificate National Merit Scholarship KEY SKILLS AWS Terraform Python JavaScript/Typescript/React Java HTML CSS C Programming R Programming Unix Shell Agile Development |