Nilay Kapadia
About Me
Hi, I'm Nilay! I just graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's in Computer Science with a concentration in AI, ML, and data science. I'm looking for a full-time software engineering position. I mainly enjoy working with C++, Python, Go, TypeScript, or React.
Work Experience
- Alo Yoga
Jun 2025 — Aug 2025
Software Engineer Intern
Los Angeles, CA
As part of the Business Systems team, I built an automated Python testing tool that simulated manufacturing pipelines and saved 500+ developer hours annually. I created an SRE monitoring pipeline with Grafana integration, built a GitHub app to automate deployments and check database indexing, and developed a RAG-based AI chatbot trained on the company’s codebase. I also fixed a data-visibility bug affecting a manufacturing dashboard.
- Doron Precision Systems
Jun 2024 — Aug 2024
Software Engineer Intern
Binghamton, NY
Built a custom AI traffic system in Unreal Engine 5 with C++ that allows for thousands of vehicles to navigate autonomously, avoid each other, safely merge into lanes and onto highways, and follow right of way at intersections. I also created an internal tool to help build road networks along with a custom Bézier curve implementation.
- Bozu
May 2023 — Aug 2023
Software Engineer Intern
Remote
Built an Outlook plugin to create Bozu VOIP meetings within Outlook and synchronize them. Developed a Slack integration that let users create and manage Bozu meeting in Slack.
Projects
- Operating System Simulator
Created a C++ OS simulator for CPU scheduling algorithms including FCFS, SJF, SRT, and round robin with performance metrics for CPU utilization, wait times, and turnaround times
- Massively Parallel Flocking Simulation
Developed a massively parallel flocking simulation using CUDA and MPI to simulate real-time flocking behavior of millions of agents on RPI's AiMOS supercomputer.
- RPI Search Engine
Built a search engine ranking microservice with that covers all RPI domains. Integrated the service with a Redis cache and indexing, link analysis, and metrics microservices
- PolyCal
PolyCal is calendar app that centralizes every event on RPI's campus into one place. It is built with React and Go.
- Degree Doctor
Degree Doctor is a Vue app that helps students create and manage a plan for their college degree.
Contact
- Email — nilayrkapadia [at] gmail [dot] com
- GitHub — nikapadia
- LinkedIn — nilaykapadia