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Open to bold engineering workTempe, Arizona

Building systems with taste, speed, and signal.

I am Kashyap Hegde Kota, a computer science student and full-stack builder turning AI, cloud infrastructure, and product craft into fast interfaces that feel alive.

Next.jsReactFastAPIPythonPyTorchAWS LambdaOracle CloudDynamoDBFAISSSentence TransformersFirebaseTailwind CSSMLOpsSeleniumNext.jsReactFastAPIPythonPyTorchAWS LambdaOracle CloudDynamoDBFAISSSentence TransformersFirebaseTailwind CSSMLOpsSelenium

Selected systems

Work that moves from model to interface.

A mix of AI infrastructure, serverless products, and expressive web apps built with an eye for speed, clarity, and small details.

Research Paper Discovery Platform interface preview
AI Search Infrastructure2026

250K+ arXiv papers

Research Paper Discovery Platform

Live

Semantic research discovery for CS.AI, CS.LG, and CS.CL papers using Sentence-Transformers, FAISS, FastAPI, and a polished Next.js frontend.

FastAPIFAISSNext.jsOracle Cloud
2026 F1 Carbon Emissions Calculator interface preview
Serverless Simulation2026

Zero idle server cost

2026 F1 Carbon Emissions Calculator

Live

Cloud-native freight logistics simulation with FastAPI on AWS Lambda, DynamoDB geospatial lookups, and real-time environmental impact visualizations.

AWS LambdaFastAPIDynamoDBNext.js
CaptionMe interface preview
Computer Vision2025

ResNet-50 + LSTM

CaptionMe

Live

An end-to-end AI captioning system with a PyTorch training pipeline, custom vocabulary, Streamlit inference app, and batch-friendly CLI.

PythonPyTorchStreamlitDeep Learning
Family Guy Episode Recommender interface preview
Playful Product2025

8 mood paths

Family Guy Episode Recommender

Live

A mood-aware recommendation app built with React and an AWS serverless backend, tuned for fast choices and polished microinteractions.

ReactAWS LambdaServerless
LeetBuddy interface preview
AI Coding Companion2025

LoRA fine-tuned

LeetBuddy

Research

A Socratic algorithm co-pilot powered by a custom Code-Vision model, multimodal scraped datasets, and an MLOps training pipeline.

PythonLLaVALoRAMLOps
Crime Predictor interface preview
Applied ML2024

Random Forest model

Crime Predictor

Prototype

A location and time based risk forecasting tool using public ASU police data, feature engineering, and scikit-learn classification workflows.

PythonMachine Learningscikit-learn
Weather Application interface preview
API Interface2024

Real-time forecast

Weather Application

Live

A responsive weather app with city autocomplete, OpenWeatherMap integration, and a clean interface for fast daily decisions.

JavaScriptOpenWeatherMap APIResponsive Design
Pantry Tracker interface preview
AI Utility2024

Firestore backed

Pantry Tracker

Live

A Next.js and Firebase pantry manager with Google authentication, AI chat assistance, and secure real-time data storage.

Next.jsFirebaseGenerative AIFirestore

Signal path

Experience shaped by building in public.

2023 - Present

Computer Science, B.S.

Arizona State University

Dean's-list velocityCS foundationsResearch-first build habits

Focused on distributed systems, applied machine learning, web infrastructure, and product engineering craft.

2025

Software Development Intern

Industry Engineering Team

Feature deliveryAPI integrationCode review discipline

Contributed to production workflows with a bias for clear interfaces, reliable APIs, and fast iteration loops.

2024 - Present

AI Systems Builder

Independent Projects

FAISS retrievalPyTorch trainingServerless deployments

Built retrieval, captioning, recommender, and code-assistant systems across cloud, model, and frontend boundaries.

Contact

Let's build the next sharp thing.

I am interested in internships, AI product work, cloud-heavy systems, and small teams where design taste matters as much as throughput.