Open to opportunities
Harish Mukkapati

Harish Mukkapati

MSCS @ Georgia Tech

Experience_Timeline

Incoming SWE Intern @ Cencora

COLUMBUS, OH • FORTUNE 10
JUNE 2026 - AUG 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
Featured_Projects

"The Social Contract" Focus App

IOS-FIRST PRODUCTIVITY TOOL

A real-time productivity app designed for remote, asynchronous learners. Shifts the burden of deep work from individual willpower to social accountability. Features a "Vote to End" group mechanic requiring peer consensus to break focus, ActivityKit for glanceable lock screen presence, and hardware integration using CoreNFC to trigger study sessions via physical desk taps. Powered by a stateless, high-concurrency Go server.

SwiftUI / SwiftDataGo (Golang)GCP & RedisWebSockets

AI Course Assistant

BEST UX @ HACKOHI/O 11

Finetuned an LLM to function as a 24/7 teaching assistant. Automated lecture transcription using Google Vision API to generate 3,000+ custom training data points for OpenAI. Built a full-stack interface to handle student queries natively.

Next.jsPython / GradioOpenAI API

Interactive Pokémon Explorer

FRONTEND WEB APP

A highly responsive client-side application querying the PokéAPI. Engineered a dynamic search engine, detailed information modals, custom interactive CSS animations, and algorithmic color mapping based on Pokémon typings.

JavaScriptHTML / CSSREST APIs
Education_&_Honors

Georgia Institute of Technology

JAN 2026 - CURRENT

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 - MAY 2026

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

LeadershipPublic RelationsCommunity
Technical_Arsenal
Hobby Photographer
JavaPythonC++TypeScriptJavaScriptSwiftSQLMatlabReactNext.jsReduxTailwind CSSD3.jsNode.jsExpress.jsPostgreSQLMongoDBKafkaOAuthTensorFlowPyTorchCoreMLOpenAI APIGemini APIRayAWSGoogle CloudDockerKubernetesJenkinsCI/CDGitLinuxWiresharkSystem DesignDistributed Systems