Education
BS in Computer Science & Minor in Statistics (2023 - 2026)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Grainger College of Engineering
Coursework
Systems
- CS 425 (Distributed Systems)
- CS 341 (Systems Programming)
- CS 483 (Applied Parallel Programming)
- CS 233 (Computer Architecture)
- CS 411 (Database Systems)
Machine Learning & Data
- CS 446 (Machine Learning)
- CS 498 (Machine Learning Systems)
- CS 410 (Text Information Systems)
- CS 498 (Data Management in the Cloud)
Data Structures, Algorithms, & Theory
- CS 374 (Algorithms)
- CS 173 (Discrete Structures)
- CS 421 (Programming Languages & Compilers)
Math & Statistics
- STAT 433 (Stochastic Processes)
- STAT 420 (Applied Statistics)
- STAT 400 (Intro to Statistics)
- CS 361 (Probability for CS)
- MATH 257 (Linear Algebra)
- CS 357 (Numerical Methods)
Foundations and Other
- CS 128 (Intro to CS II)
- CS 211 (Ethics)
- BADM 261 (Technology & Management)
Skills
Languages:
C/C++, Python, Java, CUDA, Go, Swift, SQL, R, Verilog, Haskell
Cloud:
AWS Lambda, Bedrock, Athena, S3, DynamoDB, CDK, GCP BigQuery, Firebase
Full-stack Platforms:
iOS, Android, React, Flask
ML Tools:
NumPy, PyTorch, Pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy (stats, linalg, optimize, sparse.csgraph), Scikit-Learn, HuggingFace, Seaborn, TensorFlow, OpenCV, MediaPipe
Misc. Development Tools:
Git, LaTex, Valgrind
Work Experience
Amazon - Software Development Engineer Intern (May 2025 - Aug 2025)
AWS Applied AI Solutions for Manufacturing
Projects & Hackathons
Can be found at my GitHub: github.com/srikarpisupati
FinWise — A Portfolio Manager, Software Engineer Sep 2024 - Dec 2024
- Developed Flask-based REST APIs to deliver investment portfolio analysis using FinGPT Dow30 model (PEFT)
- Fetched Yahoo Finance data (stock data, news) and created prompts to generate stock analysis & predictions
Fair Share — Undergraduate Research, Software Engineer Jan 2024 - Dec 2024
- Researched fair-division algorithms to optimally allocate indivisible resources, given individual preferences
- Developed a user-friendly iOS app (Swift, Cloud Functions) to compute allocations, maximizing Nash Welfare
- Implemented SciPy’s LP and Min Weight Bipartite Matching algorithms, tested performance with synthetic data
- Used Firestore (NoSQL) to store users, devices & groups. Supported group membership using invitation codes.
CrowdCompute — HackIllinois Hackathon Feb 2024
- Built a web application using React, facilitating the training of ML models on remote (Docker) machines
- Responsible for backend data storage using Firebase, managing host machine metadata, model files & weights
ILline — BuildIllinois Hackathon Nov 2023
- Developed an iOS app to support device proximity detection, distance-based ranking, and notifications.
- Used CoreBluetooth and P2P pairing to automatically detect nearby devices, and assigned “queue” positions.
- Won 4th place out of 36 teams and 200+ contestants
American Sign Language Classifier Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
- Trained and tuned a CNN based ASL classification model using the Sign Language MNIST dataset
- Created a Python Gradio web app to capture camera image and classify it using the pre-trained ASL model
Assignments
- Built core system utilities in C: custom malloc, concurrent client –server system, parallel make, and a basic shell
- Gradient Descent: Analytically implemented and compared Adam, SGD, and AdaGrad optimizers
- ML Projects: Trained and compared Random Forest, Decision Tree, kNN, and SVM models on UCIMLRepo data
- Implemented VectorDB search; Trained with PyTorch: k -NN, k -means, regression, CNN, and ResNet models
- Built regression model for predicting Revenue-Passenger-Miles from 5+ factors, for Kaggle Air Traffic dataset
- PhotoMosaic: Implemented k-d tree to map image sections to nearest tile by color, to build a photo mosaic
- IlliniBook: Developed a social network to search related people, shortest path, and connected components (BFS)
- Created a skill–job matching web app: designed DB schema & SQL queries (top companies, in-demand skills).
Awards & Leadership
| ★ AURA: Disaster Analytics (1st place, Dec 2024) | ★ Dean’s List, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025 |
| ★ Iline: BuildIllinois Hackathon (4th place, 2023) | ★ National Merit Scholar Finalist (2023) |
| ★ CS 124H: ASL Classifier, Hall of Fame (2023) | ★ AP Scholar with Distinction Award (2021-23) |
| ★ YAPA Kids Executive Director, iOS Program Lead (2021-2023) | ★ CS 341 Course Assistant |
| ★ Project: Code Outreach Director |