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Nithisha Venkatesh

Applied AI Engineer

Applied AI Engineer with 2+ years shipping production AI systems: won the Microsoft Skill Fest Student Award (2026) for a red-team-hardened multi-agent platform that held a 100% block-rate across 232 adversarial cases, won the Gappy AI Hackathon (2026) for a governed, human-gated AI bug-fix workflow, and co-built NextHire AI, a SaaS product that evaluates developers on evidence from real debugging sessions. Core strengths: agentic systems, production-grade RAG, hybrid retrieval, LLM evaluation and guardrails, and observability-first backends in Python, FastAPI, and TypeScript.

AI Systems at a Glance

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AI products and platforms shipped

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adversarial cases hardened against

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tests behind a single system

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hackathon honors

Experience

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Artificial Intelligence Engineer

iQube

June 2024 - Present

Designing, developing, and deploying scalable end-to-end AI systems spanning machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI, translating complex R&D into production platforms with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, and real-world integration.

Impact

  • Built production-ready FastAPI-based platforms with RAG pipelines, vector databases, hybrid retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, LLM integration, and robust observability via latency tracing and structured logging.
  • Architected end-to-end data pipelines for preprocessing, EDA, dimensionality reduction, and model optimization, delivering time-series forecasting, risk classification, and financial analytics models on large-scale datasets for real-world decision-making.

Focus areas

Generative AIRAG PipelinesHybrid RetrievalLLM IntegrationTime-series ForecastingRisk ClassificationObservability

Selected Projects

Winner · Microsoft Skill Fest Hackathon

Athenaeum

Grounded Multi-Agent Learning Platform

Project

A red-team-hardened, multi-agent tutoring platform on Microsoft Foundry covering learning-path curation, capacity-aware study planning, citation-grounded tutoring, and tamper-resistant graded assessments. Winner of the Microsoft Skill Fest Hackathon (Student Award, 2026).

Winner · Gappy AI Hackathon

Grappy

Governed, Auditable AI Bug-Fix Workflow

Project

A governed, human-gated bug-fix workflow for Python maintainers, built as a Lemma pod with a Vite/React app for the Gappy AI "Ship to Get Hired" hackathon. Coding agents can already write patches; Grappy makes the trust layer the product. Winner of the Gappy AI Hackathon (2026).

Case studyLiveGitHub

Nucleus AI

Enterprise Knowledge Platform (RAG)

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A 10-container microservice RAG platform ingesting structured knowledge from Confluence, delivering citable responses through reliability-first validation layers.

Case studyGitHub
NextHire AI landing page: Hire AI-native engineers shipping outcomes

NextHire AI

Dev Evaluation Platform for the Agentic Era

Product

A SaaS platform that evaluates developers by assigning a real, role-specific production bug to fix in their own IDE, capturing full session trajectories (every prompt, edit, command, run) for evidence-based scoring.

Case studyLive

Open Source Impact

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PRs Merged
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Total Contributions
26+
Tests Added

The Toolbox

Achievements

Winner, Microsoft Skill Fest Hackathon

2026

Student Award, Project Athenaeum

Winner, Gappy AI Hackathon

2026

Project Grappy

Achiever's Award, NIDAR

2026

National Innovation Challenge for Drone Application & Research

Finalist, Zoho Creator Hackathon

2025

Zoho Corporation

Education

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B.Tech, Artificial Intelligence & Data Science

Kumaraguru College of Technology

CGPA 8.2

Contact

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I'm looking for my next role building AI systems that ship. If the work here feels relevant to what your team is building, I'd love to hear from you. Email is the fastest way, and I read everything.