Nikhil Bhat Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Los Gatos, Ca, Us

Trust and Safety

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Re-architected a legacy classification service to support multiple clients, increasing throughput to 10M requests/day• Migrated critical services from AWS AppConfig to AWS Parameter Store, reducing infrastructure costs by 30%• Designed an event-driven GDPR compliance service scaled to handle over 80k customer data deletion requests/day• Reduced on-call load by 5 hrs/week by developing a Python tool to root cause and resolve common operational issues• Drove org-wide adoption of AWS best practices, reducing incoming security vulnerability tickets by 100% (10/month → 0)• Mentored an intern project to regionalize an event publisher used in 10+ microservices, leading to a successful return offer• Led a team of 4 engineers across 3 timezones to onboard new use cases, processing an additional 130k orders/month

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Led a team of six engineers and two designers to develop an AI-powered telemedicine platform

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Fancily: An iOS app for fashion recommendations driven by ML. • Grow Organic: An IoT-enabled organic plant growing solution. • NomiX: Precision placement for clinical trials

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Saved over $100k a week by expanding a native AWS service used to identify products being sold at a loss• Built an automated service leveraging AWS Lambdas to alert business owners on recently suspended products

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Developed computer vision and data processing algorithms for 3D Athlete Tracking at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games• Implemented a modified IK algorithm for athlete pose estimation, reducing the runner velocity calculation error by 70%• Designed an end-to-end static camera calibration application using OpenCV resulting in under 5cm of reprojection error• Decreased runtime of the biomechanical analysis module by 20x through algorithm and data processing optimizations• Deployed a modular unit-testing framework for verifying calibration accuracy and integrated it into the CI/CD pipeline

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

• Developed a vision-based autonomous drone navigation system which won $30k in the Verizon 5G Robotics Challenge• Designed a self-correcting algorithm for heliostat motion, by using OpenCV and a PID controller to account for GPS drift• Implemented LIDAR-based SLAM navigation algorithms for a ground robot using ROS and Google Cartographer

Boston, Ma, Us

Taught recitations, held office hours, and graded papers for CS 1800: Discrete Structures

Boston, Ma, Us

Research in autonomous navigation and computer vision under Professor Hanumant Singh

Windsor, Connecticut, Us

Data analysis to improve manufacturing operations.

Windsor, Connecticut, Us

(June - August 2017)

Windsor, Connecticut, Us

(June - August 2016)

Hartford, Ct, Us

Autonomous robotics with a focus on science education.