Summary
Nikhila Banukumar is a USC master’s student in Computer Science with 11 years of hands-on software experience spanning backend, full-stack, and mobile development. She has delivered practical systems—from a blood-donor locator Android app and a carpooling portal that improved routing efficiency, to real-time sensor data visualization in Unity—demonstrating strengths in algorithms, APIs, and performance optimization. Her internship and directed research work show attention to software metrics and user-facing UI/templating improvements as well as multithreading and data transfer efficiency. Comfortable with Python, Java, PHP, MySQL and modern web stacks, she combines academic training in algorithms, databases and information retrieval with a pragmatic focus on shipping usable features. Colleagues would describe her as passionate, diligent and quick to learn trends and smart approaches to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 9.1 CGPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 9.1 CGPA at SRM University
English, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil