Summary
Athithyaa Selvam is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with 8 years of experience building backend systems, web applications, and AI-driven products. At Cloudera, they contribute to the open-source HUE project and have driven LLM-powered SQL assistance, GenAI document search, and an enterprise data chat to accelerate data accessibility and workflow automation. Previously they built large-scale hypergraph databases and self-attention graph neural models for cancer target discovery, combining ML research with production-grade search and parallel algorithms. Comfortable across the stack, Athithyaa blends research rigor from an MS in Computer Science with practical engineering—often turning complex biomedical and data problems into scalable software solutions. A less obvious strength is their knack for translating novel AI research into usable product features that meaningfully shorten time-to-insight for data teams.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science, Computer Science, Master of Computer Science, Computer Science at Arizona State University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering