Nikhil Adyapak

Nikhil Adyapak

ML Systems Engineer • MLOps Specialist • Data Science @ UW-Madison

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Seeking Summer 2026 Internships (May-Aug) and Co-ops (July-Dec) in ML Systems & Engineering, MLOps, and Data Science
MS Data Science @ UW-Madison | Ex-Senior Software Engineer @ Bosch Global Software Technologies

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About Me

I am a Master's in Data Science student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with 2+ years of industry experience building machine learning systems in production at Bosch (ADAS).

My core strengths are in designing, scaling, and operating production-grade ML systems, with a strong focus on the engineering side of AI. I enjoy working at the intersection of machine learning, software engineering, and cloud infrastructure.

I am actively seeking Summer 2026 Internships (May-Aug) and Co-ops (July-Dec) in Machine Learning Engineering, MLOps, and Data Science.

MLOps as a Service

End-to-end automation ( Azure ML Studio, MLflow, DVC) enabling multi-team model training at scale, reduced GPU costs by 60%.

Distributed Systems

Scaling Ray Clusters on Kubernetes (AKS) to reduce training cycles by 75%.

Search & Retrieval

Engineering 60M+ image retrieval systems (CLIP + ElasticSearch) for ADAS data discovery.

Technical Skills

Languages

Python C C++ Java SQL R

ML & Statistics

PyTorch TensorFlow HuggingFace Scikit-Learn OpenCV Matplotlib

MLOps & Workflows

Ray MLflow DVC Argo Azure ML Prometheus Grafana

Cloud & Infrastructure

Azure AWS AKS Docker Terraform Azure DevOps Actions Linux

Databases & Tools

Elastic Postgres MySQL MongoDB FastAPI Flask Streamlit GitHub

Professional Journey

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Jan 2026 - Present

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI, USA

Course: CS564 - Database Management Systems

  • Lead assignment sections and mentor 200+ students in database design, SQL, and Python implementation.
  • Assist instructors with automated grading pipelines and course logistics.
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Aug 2023 - Aug 2025

Senior Software Engineer (AI Systems for ADAS)

Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW) | Bengaluru, India

MLOps Distributed Systems Image Search
  • MLOps as a Service: Delivered an end-to-end platform (Azure ML + MLflow) for pedestrian detection, enabling multi-GPU training (3x faster) and reducing GPU costs by 60%.
  • Distributed Training: Architected a Ray Cluster on AKS, slashing retraining cycles from 4 weeks to 1 week (75% faster) for 30+ teams.
  • Image Search Engine: Built a 60M+ image retrieval system (CLIP + ElasticSearch) to discover edge cases, reducing triage time by 95% (4 hrs → 10 mins).
  • Cost & Security: Implemented embedding reuse (80% alignment) and deployed secure on-prem LLMs (Ollama) (150+ users) with zero external data egress.
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Jan 2023 - May 2023

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Intern

Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW) | Bengaluru, India

  • Engineered on-premise pipelines (DVC + MLflow), reducing model setup time from 1 week to 1 day (85% faster).
  • Containerized model deployments and built CI/CD workflows for Azure Container Instances (ACI) using GitHub Actions.
  • Presented MLOps proof-of-concept at the internal Data Engineering Marketplace demonstrating production readiness.
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Sep 2022 - Dec 2022

Teaching Assistant

PES University | Bengaluru, India

Course: CS203: Statistics for Data Science

  • Mentored 120+ students and delivered hands-on sessions on Hypothesis Testing and Supervised ML.
  • Organized and judged departmental hackathons.
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Jun 2022 - Jul 2022

Summer Intern

Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW) | Bengaluru, India

  • Designed MLOps pipelines for object detection (YOLOv5, Detectron2) with DVC integration.
  • Implemented ensemble strategies and automated evaluation reports to improve model robustness for autonomous driving.
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May 2021 - Dec 2021

Research Intern

Center for Information Security (C-ISFCR) | PES University | Bengaluru, India

  • Developed novel cryptanalysis methods for columnar transposition ciphers using Python & Optimization.
  • Published findings at IEEE SMARTGENCON 2022.

Featured Projects

Devpost Demo Repo

Sentinel Edge AI

Selected for the Qualcomm Track at the UW-Madison MadData 26 Hackathon (1 of 10 teams selected from 350+ registrants).
Air-gapped AI security auditor running 100% on-device (Snapdragon X Elite NPU). Detects legal risks and code vulnerabilities using local Llama 3.2 & RAG without cloud data leaks.

Llama Qualcomm RAG
Repo DOI Exp Dataset

Code Runtime Complexity Prediction

Predicted Big-O complexity using static analysis and BiLSTM over AST graph embeddings with 96% accuracy. (Springer 2023)

Python TF Sklearn
DVC Pipeline Detection Repos

MLOps Pipeline for Pedestrian Detection

End-to-end MLOps lifecycle on Azure. Enabled multi-GPU training and reduced cloud costs by 60%.

DVC MLflow Azure
View Repo DOI Link

Decrypting Transposition Ciphers

Optimization techniques to break columnar transposition ciphers using Natural Language (IEEE SmartGenCon).

Python IEEE
Private Work

Distributed ML Training System

Designed a Ray Cluster system on AKS, reducing retraining cycles by 75% (4 weeks → 1 week) for 30+ teams.

Ray K8s
Private Work

Scene Understanding Pipeline

Engineered an image retrieval pipeline using Scene Graphs (Hugging Face Transformers + Foundation Models) to generate fine-grained datasets, improving corner-case discovery for complex driving scenarios.

HF PyTorch Transformers

Beyond Code

UW Madison

Research Communicator (3MT)

Competed in UW-Madison's 3 Minute Thesis, distilling complex research on autonomous driving corner cases for a non-technical audience (2025).

BGSW

Top Achiever Award

Ranked 1st among 150+ engineers in Data Engineering at Bosch (2024).

BGSW

Best Presenter Award

Recognized for technical excellence at the Bosch Data Engineering Dept Meeting (2024).

BGSW CSR

Education Advocate

Guided candidates with disabilities in tech interviews (Youth4Jobs) and taught CS to underprivileged children (2023-2025).

BGSW CSR

Wildlife & Social

Supported elephant habitat restoration and agricultural initiatives funding stipends for differently-abled individuals (2023-2025).

PES University

Distinction Award & Scholarship

Distinction Award (Semesters 3-6) (2020-2022).
MRD Scholarship (40% tuition scholarship for Top 20% of 1100+ students) (2020).