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My name is Nikhil Agarwal. I am a currently graduate student at Georgia Tech pursuing my MS in Computer Science. I completed my BS in Computer Engineering at Rutgers University in May 2024, graduating with highest honors (Summa Cum Laude).

This summer 2024, I will be joining Paramount as a Software Engineer Intern. In the Summer of 2023 I was a Software Engineer Intern at Barclays on their KYC and Group Financial Crime Operations team. We develop software to ensure regulatory compliance and safeguard against fraudulent activity using Java (Spring), Microsoft SQL Server (SSMS), and PEGA.

For the winter of 2021-2022, I was an Software Engineer Intern at Makonis Software. During my time there I developed Java software that consolidates financial statements.

I am very passionate about my projects and the knowledge I've gained from personally building software. My projects include full-stack development in Node.js (JavaScript) and the Flask Framework (Python), Machine learning projects using Jupyter Notebook and Neural Networks written from scratch, as well as projects focusing on algorithm and data structure design (dictionary app, 3D pathfinding visualizer, etc.)

I've also been a volunteer math coach at the Urban League of Morris County, in Morristown NJ. We Actively supported field electrician candidates in improving their math skills through the Urban League Program for First Energy. First Energy is a utility company in NJ that hires field electricians through this Urban League Program. It was wonderful to see education change people's lives for the better.

Outside of my professional and academic background, I enjoy playing classical music on the piano and violin and distance running.

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Paramount

SWE Intern

Global Media Processing & Distribution Systems

Barclays

SWE Intern

team KYC and
group financial crime operations

Makonis

Swe Intern

Wrote Financial statement consolidation software

Wyzant

Math & Physics Tutor

Rutgers

CS112
Data structures

CS205 & CS206
Discrete Math/Structures I & II

Math250
Linear Algebra

CS334
Algorithms

ECE331
Computer Architecture

ECE434
Operating Systems

ECE452
Sofware Engineering

ECE443
Machine Learning

CS440
Artifical Intelligence

Projects

ML term project
- Jupyter Notebook
- QDA/KNN/SVC

AiBot Handyman
- A* search
- Bayesian Network
- Markov Chain
- Neural Network

Infinote App
- Flask/SQL
- Notepad Webapp

Online Pharmacy
- JavaScript/HTML/CSS
- Prescription System

Dictionary App
- data-structure design
- Java/JavaServer

Brew & Bites
- AndroidStudio/Java
- Cafe Application

Number Classifier
- Neural Network

My SkillsSkills

Progamming Languages

Python

Java

C++

JavaScript

SQL

Matlab

Frameworks & Libraries

PyTorch

Flask

Numpy

Pandas

Spring

Technologies & Tools

Jira

Confluence

Docker

Google Cloud

AWS

Git

Jupyter Notebook

FireBase

Android Studio

Github

Gradle

Linux

Development Envs

VS code

PyCharm

IntelliJ

Education & ExperienceExperience

Education

Aug 2024 - Dec 2025

Atlanta, GA

M.S. Computer Science - Georgia Institute of Technology

Specialization: Machine Learning

Sep 2020 - May 2024

New Brunswick, NJ

B.S. Computer Engineering - Rutgers University

Minor: Computer Science

Summa Cum Laude (Highest Honors)

IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu ECE Honor Society (HKN)

6 x Dean's List Student

Convocation Program

Experience

Jun 2024 - Present

New York, NY

Software Engineer Intern - Paramount

- Media processing & distribution systems

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Whippany, NJ

Software Engineer Intern - Barclays

Team Wholesale KYC, Client Onboarding, and Group Financial Crime Operations

Developed in Java, Spring Framework, Microsoft SQL Server (SSMS), PEGA

Worked with an Agile workflow and development cycle with Jira

Created software to streamline regulatory compliance and detect fraud

Dec 2021 - Jan 2022

Morris Plains, NJ

Software Engineer Intern - Makonis Software

Built Java project that verifies and consolidates multiple financial statements

Imported P&L statements from INTUIT QUICKBOOKS as .csv files

Program generated a detailed report of a group’s Total Income, COGS, Expenses, Net Other Income/ Net Ordinary Income, etc

Sep 2020 - May 2023

Bridgewater, NJ (Remote)

Math & Physics Tutor - Wyzant

Provided 1:1 academic support to students by planning and executing lessons and reviewing study techniques

Math: Pre-Algebra, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, AP Calculus, MultiVariable/DiffEq, SAT/ACT, Linear Algebra

Physics: AP Physics 1 & 2, AP Physics C, Analytical Physics (College)

Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

Bridgewater, NJ

server - Uncle Julio's

Collaborated with a team of restaurant staff to assist guests, offer recommendations, and efficiently resolve issues in a fast-paced customer service environment

Volunteer

May 2018 - Aug 2020

Morristown, NJ

Math Coach & Mentor - Urban Leauge of Morris County

Mentor and volunteer math teacher at the Urban League Power Systems Institute

Assisted electrican candidates in securing a job at First Energy (a utility company in NJ)

Provided academic support to individuals earning their Electrician Certifications

Math: Geometry, Algebra I & II, Pre-Calculus

My ProjectsProjects

Ai & ML

StudentX - Rutgers Capstone

Created P2P marketplace for Rutgers students selling school items, furniture, housing, etc.

Generated text embeddings using pretrained Hugging Face NLP transformers & implemented semantic search in the store and faq pages using vector cosine similarity

Developed a KNN recommendation system to display items to users by comparing user matricies

Implemented our own direct messaging system using FlaskSocketIO and socket events

Handwritten Number Classifier

Python | NumPy

Built a Neural Network in Python to classify handwritten numbers

Utilized ML algorithms and OOP to implement forward/back propagation, activation functions, and loss calculation

Trained network on 60,000 images, leading to 97.64% accuracy on 10,000 new images

Ai-Bot Ship Handyman

Python | NumPy | MatplotLib

Built A* search algorithms, Bayesian Networks, and Markov Chains

Optimized test environment generation from quadratic to linear time

Built and trained a neural network to categorize 4 classes of images to 99.04% accuracy on an unseen dataset

Full-Stack Development

Infinote - Notepad Application

Implemented a notepad/calendar/password storage app using the Flask framework

Utilizes SQLite3 database with data normalization techniques

Features REST API, OOP, user authentication, and SMTP email notification functionality

Deployed on Google Cloud via Docker container

Drughub - Online Pharmacy

Developed a medication service website with order, pay, and delivery functionality as part of a 10-member team

Implemented RESTful API architecture, in conjunction with Javascript async and await properties

Personally developed the backend for our prescription validation & maintenance system

Rhythm-Realm-Music (RRM) Webapp

Developed a media player web app with user authentication

Stored songs in a cirucular, doubly linked list data structure for efficient access in the media player

Created a dashboard that allows users to filter songs by artist, title, or playlist

Personal Portfolio Website

JavaScript | HTML | CSS | SCSS

Explore my education, experiences, skills, & interests

Data-Structure & Algorithm Design

Dictionary Application Server

Java | JavaHTTPServer

Created a Java Server that has HTTP request/response capabilities implementing an English dictionary

Implemented a custom tree data structure to hold words & definitions

Custom data structure supports constant time insertion, deletion, and search of words [O(1) time]

3D pathfinding visualizer

Python | MatplotLib

Implemented A* algorithm in a 3D space

Implements Manhattan or Euclidean distance heuristics

Plots the shortest path from a given start to finish in 3D

Mobile App Development

Brew & Bites - Cafe Android App

Java | AndroidSDK | XML | Gradle

Implemented OOP and Event-driven methodologies to create a cafe application. where

Users can add items to cart, view prices and totals, place orders, and view order history

Implements Inheritance and Polymorphism for all Java menu item classes (donut, coffee, etc.)

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