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Akhil Kagithapu

Hi! I'm

Akhil Kagithapu

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About Me 🧸

CS Major @ Cornell University

hi! I'm a philly-born student @ Cornell University studying Computer Science, but I'm also interested in Operations Research and Finance. Outside of academics, I like to play tennis and squash, create VFX illusions in digital media, and try really spicy foods. I hope you enjoy my website!

I'm currently looking into

🤖AI/ML Engineering in Deployed Systems
🌐Full-Stack Web Development
👁️Computer Vision and Graphics Performance Engineering
📊Data Science's Role in Quantitative Finance

a clip of a VFX project I made in Philly. a lot of compositing and rotoscoping went into this

a clip of a VFX project I made in Philly. a lot of compositing and rotoscoping went into this

Experiences 💼

Penske Truck Leasing

Software Engineer Intern

Penske Truck Leasing

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025

Developed enterprise web applications using Angular and SpringBoot. Implemented new features for fleet management systems and set up database and SpringBoot server.

AngularSpringBootJavaTypeScriptOpenShift
RapStudy (EdTech)

Software Engineer Intern

RapStudy (EdTech)

Apr 2025 - Present

Led React application refactor and Firebase integration. Improved app deploy performance and implemented SSO for Clever & ClassLink.

ReactFirebaseJavaScriptReduxCSS3
Hack4Impact Cornell

Full-Stack Developer

Hack4Impact Cornell

Feb 2025 - Present

Built scalable web applications for non-profits using Express, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. Currently developing a endowment manager application for non-profits.

Express.jsPrismaPostgreSQLReactNode.js
Engineers for a Sustainable World Cornell

Subteam Lead, AI Developer

Engineers for a Sustainable World Cornell

Oct 2024 - Present

Developed an agentic RAG AI system using AWS Bedrock for reporting energy anomalies more efficiently to Cornell IT. Led project management meetings involving Cornell IT Faculty.

PythonAWS BedrockLangChainExpress.jsReact Grafana

Projects 🤖

LockedIn - Tinder for LinkedIn

LockedIn - Tinder for LinkedIn

Engineered backend, DevOps, and algorithms for an award-winning app that simplifies professional networking - Cornell AppDev Hack Challenge

PythonFlaskSQLAlchemyGoogle Cloud PlatformDockerAWS S3
TikTok Saved Sounds Downloader

TikTok Saved Sounds Downloader

Automated tool to download saved TikTok sounds with metadata extraction

PythonSeleniumBeautifulSoupJS Redirecting
Vocera - Voice Deepfake Detection

Vocera - Voice Deepfake Detection

Engineered fullstack + data pipeline for an app that verifies caller identity using vocal signatures to combat voice deepfakes in high-risk phone calls

React NativeExpoPythonFlaskOpenAI WhisperSpeechBrainOpenSMILESupabaseHeroku
Odyssey - Interactive Theorem Prover

Odyssey - Interactive Theorem Prover

Developed an OCaml theorem prover to evaluate evaluate propositional logic, featuring a SAT Solver, proposition simplifier, and LaTeX export.

OCamlDuneFunctional ProgrammingSAT SolverBoolean SatisfiabilityLaTeX
Responsive Website for Cornell Portfolio Management Club

Responsive Website for Cornell Portfolio Management Club

Worked w/ team of 3 to build a website for a finance club. Unfortunately, it didn't end up launching, but I still got frontend experience!

HTMLCSSTailwind
Intelligent Image Selection Application

Intelligent Image Selection Application

Java GUI that features Dijkstra's Algorithm and Priority Queues for efficient and algorithmic pathfinding in the 'Intelligent Scissors' model

JavaSwingDijkstra's AlgorithmConcurrencyGUI Development