# Nikhil Rao

> SDE @ eGain | UCSD CSE Alumni

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nikhilrao1

Hi, I’m a recent graduate from the Computer Science master’s program at UC San Diego! I'm currently a software engineer.

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer @ eGain Corporation
Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Research Intern @ ESB Artificial Intelligence Lab
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Diego, California, United States
•	Implemented large language models (LLM) to fossilize endangered languages, including Chickasaw, Hawaiian, and Sanskrit.
•	Trained OCR engine to extract text from Hawaiian language images. (https://github.com/ESB-AI-Lab/tesseract-languages)

### Teaching Assistant @ UC San Diego
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Diego, California, United States
•	Worked with over 1200 students over five quarters teaching Linux, Python, machine learning (linear regression, classification algorithms, clustering algorithms, neural networks, NLP), bash scripting, vim, JUnit, JDB, and Java web servers.
•	Leading labs, configuring Python exam/homework auto graders, creating programming tutorials, updating websites in Markdown.
•	Courses taught: Software Tools and Techniques, Introduction to Programming, Python for Data Science

### Product Management and Data Science Intern @ CivicScience
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
•	Set up Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics by analyzing JavaScript and HTML website code for AudienceLens platform.
•	Conducted market research and presented a web analytics tool recommendation to the product team.

### Intern @ La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Diego, California, United States
•	Built data pipelines to process raw ChIP-seq data into peaks with Bowtie, MACS2, and more.
•	Created website containing database of processed HiChIP loops using Django with Rancher.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
•	Developed backend interface for cataloging and searching for products with Java, Elasticsearch, and Apache Spark.
•	Initially verified feasibility of search functions on an Elasticsearch instance on a local Docker container.
•	Ran Spark job on Google Cloud Platform to add 500 million products to larger Elasticsearch instance.
•	Worked within the Marketplace Engineering team and presented data and demonstrations of my APIs. (Item Setup By Match)


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science: Bioinformatics
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhil-rao-7069ba169

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Last updated: 2026-04-11