# Nikhil A. > Software Engineer @ Doppel Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nikhila1 ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Doppel Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area HRM team ### Founding Engineer @ Fid Labs Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area AI-Powered Developer Tools for Robotics Software ### AI Software Engineer @ Camino Mobility Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | United States Led integration of on-device ML into smart walker hardware. Built image classifier to detect foot orientation for auto-braking and fall prevention. ### AI/ML Intern @ Apple Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States Designed a pipeline for ingestion and serving of knowledge graph entity embeddings. Introduced custom reranker to boost kg retrieval performance in entity disambiguation scenarios. ### AI/ML Intern @ Apple Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote Helped improve information retrieval functionality in Knowledge Graph APIs. Created evaluation tool to provide quantitative metrics during knowledge graph updates. (12 weeks) ### Software Engineer Intern @ Lyft Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Remote Improved efficiency and decreasing error rate of duplicating and retrieving membership offers. Introduced Transit, Bikes, and Scooters-specific referrals to all partner apps. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Lyft Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto Built framework to prevent critical regressions on Perception stack. Created UI annotation tool to highlight critical obstacles in LIDAR data, and a Mode dashboard to visualize metrics on critical obstacles. (8 weeks) ### Software Engineer Intern @ DeepMap, Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California Created LSM-tree based database and mock server-client MapReduce service to speed up generation of autonomous HD maps by 10x. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Turing Scholar The University of Texas at Austin ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhilajjarapu - Portfolio: https://nikhilajjarapu.me --- Source: https://flows.cv/nikhila1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nikhila1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13