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Harish Mukkapati

Harish Mukkapati

Incoming MSCS @ Georgia Tech.
Incoming SWE Intern @ Cencora.

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Experience_Timeline

Incoming SWE Intern @ Cencora

COLUMBUS, OH • FORTUNE 10
SUMMER 2026

Selected for the engineering team at a Fortune 10 healthcare solutions company. Preparing to leverage distributed systems knowledge to build scalable healthcare infrastructure.

Fortune 10HealthTechDistributed Systems

Software Engineer Intern @ McKesson (CoverMyMeds)

COLUMBUS, OH • FORTUNE 9
JUN 2025 - AUG 2025
  • › Engineered fault-tolerant backends handling high-volume daily events for critical healthcare systems.
  • › Architected high-availability services using event-driven architecture.
C# / .NETKafkaPostgreSQLReact

AI Research Engineer (Thesis) @ Ohio State

RESEARCH DISTINCTION
DEC 2024 - DEC 2025
Thesis: The Over-Complication AnomalyREAD PAPER
+7.0%Reasoning Uplift
-12.0%Recall Regression
  • › Investigated whether recursive agent architectures actually improve LLM outputs.
  • › Found that overhead actively hurts performance on simple recall tasks.

Software Engineer Intern @ Crown Equipment Corporation

NEW BREMEN, OH
DEC 2024 - MAR 2025
  • › Engineered a fault-tolerant backend handling 250K+ daily events.
  • › Achieved sub-200ms latency using Kafka and AWS.
AWS LambdaKafkaDocker

Network Security Research Assistant @ Ohio State

WIRELESS SECURITY LAB
OCT 2023 - DEC 2024
  • › Ran 500+ MU-MIMO simulations (Matlab, Python) to study CSI vulnerabilities.
  • › Automated Wireshark signal analysis for large-scale security simulations.
MatlabPythonWireshark

ML Research Assistant @ Ohio State

MEDICAL CENTER
OCT 2023 - MAY 2024
  • › Built iOS diagnostic app achieving 83% accuracy on skin conditions.
  • › Integrated OpenAI API for patient-friendly diagnosis explanations.
CoreMLSwiftOpenAI API
Education_&_Honors

Georgia Institute of Technology

STARTING 2026

M.S. in Computer Science

Atlanta, GA

The Ohio State University

AUG 2022 - DEC 2025

B.S. Computer Science & Eng.

Columbus, OH

Research DistinctionDean's List

Hackathon & Research Awards

2025
Best AI-Based Project
ShowOHI/O
2023
Best User Experience
HackOHI/O
2023
Runner-Up
SME Mfg Challenge
2022
National Merit Commended
College Board
Leadership_&_Clubs

Co-Founder & VP @ AI Robotics Club

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
AUG 2023 - DEC 2024
  • › Scaled membership to 100+ active members and wrote fundraising proposals to secure hardware.
  • › Managed project teams fine-tuning open-source LLMs and building autonomous RC cars (CV/F1Tenth).
  • › Partnered with Buckeye AutoDrive to design driverless car technology.
LeadershipLLMsComputer VisionFundraising

Vehicle Integration Member @ Buckeye AutoDrive

SAE COMPETITION TEAM
SEP 2023 - MAY 2024
  • › Integrated driverless vehicle subsystems using Python and ROS via CAN protocol.
  • › Collaborated on safety systems for the SAE AutoDrive Challenge II.
ROSPythonCAN ProtocolAutonomous Vehicles

Communications Lead @ Indian Students Association

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
AUG 2024 - PRESENT

Leading communications and outreach for one of the largest cultural organizations on campus, promoting arts and culture events to the student body.

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Technical_Arsenal
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