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Nikhil Venkatachalam — Plano, TX · LinkedIn · GitHub · Email

Education

Northeastern University — Boston, MA · M.S. Computer Science · Expected May 2028

Purdue University — West Lafayette, IN · B.S. Computer Science, Machine Intelligence Track · Honors College · December 2025

  • Certificate: Applications in Data Science. Coursework: Analysis of Algorithms, Data Mining & Machine Learning, Intro to Artificial Intelligence, Systems Programming, Computer Architecture.

Experience

Software Development Intern — Koolio.ai · Remote · Jan 2026 – Aug 2026

  • Worked full-stack across React/TypeScript web and mobile clients, a Python microservice backend, and an internal admin panel.
  • Built admin panel authentication, subscription management, and analytics dashboards for monitoring product usage.
  • Shipped mobile Firebase push notifications, deep linking, and native Google/Apple sign-in with backend user provisioning.
  • Developed Gemini-based content-safety filtering to enforce ElevenLabs and Lyria compliance on generated audio.
  • Stood up the team's first mobile E2E test suite with Maestro and Appium; resolved recurring koolAgent voice-generation defects.

Undergraduate Data Science Researcher — The Data Mine, Purdue University — 3M · West Lafayette, IN · Aug 2025 – Dec 2025

  • Built a consumables inventory management prototype for 3M's accelerated weathering lab within an Agile team.
  • Designed the relational SQL database and connected it to a React dashboard through a Flask API.
  • Enabled real-time KPI tracking with low-stock and maintenance alerts, improving visibility and reducing inventory disruptions.

Software Engineering Intern — Stealth Startup · Remote · Nov 2024 – Aug 2025

  • Designed a meal planner and recipe book that renders personalized meal plans in a calendar view from user preferences.
  • Built the frontend in Next.js and the backend on TypeScript Supabase Edge Functions, with Google OAuth for authentication.
  • Integrated GPT-4.1-mini for meal plan generation and deployed the application via AWS Amplify.

Undergraduate Data Science Researcher — The Data Mine, Purdue University — Knudsen Institute & CAS Chemicals · West Lafayette, IN · Jan 2024 – Apr 2024, Aug 2024 – May 2025

  • Implemented web scraping with BeautifulSoup and Selenium, and trained an NER model to categorize manufacturing terminology (Knudsen Institute).
  • Produced data visualizations including directed graphs, bar charts, and pie charts, and conducted complex analysis in Python and R for CAS Chemicals.

Projects

Personal Finance Management App · Next.js, React, TypeScript, Supabase, Docker, Terraform · Mar 2026 – Aug 2026

  • Built a full-stack finance tracker organizing transactions into billing periods, with per-card utilization and automatic balance rollover.
  • Added a Claude API assistant using tool calling and web search; containerized with Docker and deployed to AWS Amplify via Terraform.

Personal Website on AWS · Terraform, S3, CloudFront, Route 53 · Aug 2024, Jul 2025

  • Provisioned a responsive personal website entirely through infrastructure as code: S3 hosting, CloudFront for security and content delivery, Route 53 for DNS.

Honors Research Project: AI Election Forecasting · Python, Machine Learning · Jan 2025 – May 2025

  • Conducted AI-driven election forecasting research advised by Professor Yexiang Xue, applying machine learning algorithms to political data to predict electoral outcomes.

HarvardX Data Science Projects · R, Machine Learning · Summer 2023

  • Built two capstone projects applying machine learning and visualizations in R to rank films and car brands against one another.

Technical Skills

  • Languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C/C++, R, SQL, HTML5/CSS, Unix Shell
  • Frameworks & Libraries: React, Next.js, Flask, Supabase, Firebase, PostgreSQL, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Maestro, Appium
  • DevOps & Cloud: AWS (S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Amplify), Terraform (IaC), Docker, Git/GitHub, Agile Development
  • AI Tools & APIs: Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Claude API (tool calling, web search), Gemini API, GPT-4.1-mini, ElevenLabs
  • Certifications & Awards: AWS Certified Developer – Associate; AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner; HarvardX Professional Data Science Certificate; National Merit Scholarship