Summary
Nikhil Ajjarapu is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building AI-enabled systems and developer tools, currently at Doppel after founding an AI-powered developer tools startup for robotics. His work spans on-device ML for assistive hardware, knowledge-graph embedding and reranking pipelines at Apple, and scalable mapping and perception tooling for autonomous systems. He combines research rigor from UT Austin (BS/MS, Turing Scholar) with hands-on product execution across startups and Big Tech, repeatedly delivering measurable performance gains like 10x map-generation speedups and improved KG retrieval. Comfortable across languages and the stack, he brings a goal-oriented, collaborative approach informed by international living experience and a track record of award-winning independent and team research.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Spanish, Telugu, English