# Vikram Nayar

> Software Engineer

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vikramnayar

I am a Software Engineer at a tech startup, and am a CS graduate from Rice University. In my free time I enjoy photography, soccer, bouldering, and music.

You can find me on GitHub at: https://github.com/yopyop1007 

Skills: TypeScript/JavaScript (React, Node), Java, Python, C, LISP, AWS, SQL

## Work Experience
### Software Integration Engineer @ Corastone
Jan 2025 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Liongard
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025

### Associate Software Engineer @ Liongard
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Houston, Texas, United States

### Teaching Assistant for COMP 310 (Adv. Object Oriented Programming) @ Rice University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Houston, Texas, United States
- Hosted help sessions for students working on Java projects and assignments
- Facilitated laboratory sections and graded student work

### DJ and Photographer @ KTRU FM 91.7 - Rice University Radio
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Houston, Texas
- Host weekly radio shows
- Photograph KTRU concerts and events on Rice campus

### Machine Learning Researcher @ UT Austin Computational Visualization Center
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas, United States
- Contributed to a research team using deep reinforcement learning for de novo drug discovery
- Utilized computational modeling and deep reinforcement learning techniques to generate and discover drugs that meet certain inputted specifications (binding to a certain protein, high hydrophobicity index, and more)
- Trained and optimized stack recurrent neural network (with gated recurrent units) to generate valid ligands that bind to an inputted protein using data from the Protein Data Bank

### Teaching Assistant for ELEC 220 @ Rice University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Houston, Texas Area
- Led laboratory sections, where students used concepts in lecture (such as bit masks, interrupts, and more) to complete various projects
- Helped students on final project based in C

### Computer Science and Math Tutor @ Self-Employed
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Houston, Texas Area
- Worked with elementary school students in a stripped down Python environment on simple projects, such as BFS
- Taught basic CS fundamentals and Discrete Math through logic puzzles
- Helped supplement high school math classes with applications in CS


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
Rice University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vikram-nayar-765221178

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Last updated: 2026-03-28