Hi, I’m Hrishikesh

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My work experience

Iowa State University - Dept. of Computer Science

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Led recitations and office hours for COM S 227 (Object-Oriented Programming), helping over 100 students per semester grasp Java concepts, recursion, and design patterns.

  • Java
  • OOP
  • Recursion
  • Teaching
Iowa State University

Supplemental Instruction Leader (MATH)

Conducted peer-led study sessions for Calculus and Discrete Math. Developed custom worksheets and visual explanations to improve student retention.

  • Mathematics
  • Calculus
  • Instruction
  • Worksheets
Iowa State University - Dept. of Computer Science

CS Help Room Tutor

Provided one-on-one tutoring for students in computer science courses. Assisted with debugging, algorithm design, and understanding core programming concepts.

  • Data Structures
  • Algorithm Design
  • Problem Solving

Excerpts of My Projects

Vision-Transformer from Scratch

An educational implementation of a Vision Transformer (ViT) built from scratch in PyTorch, trained on CIFAR-10. Includes custom patch embedding, transformer encoder blocks, and visualization tools — inspired by 'An Image is Worth 16x16 Words'.

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • Torch Vision
  • CIFAR-10

Ted Talk Recommendation ML Model

Built a content-based TED Talk recommender system using NLP techniques like TF-IDF and cosine similarity, with an interactive Streamlit web app and Dockerized deployment. Also performed exploratory data analysis with visualizations to support insights and presentation.

  • Python
  • NLP
  • TF-IDF
  • Streamlit
  • Docker

The FindRight App

Developed the full backend using Spring Boot and MySQL, integrating real-time chat and live comments with WebSockets. Collaborated in an Agile team, implementing CI/CD pipelines to streamline feature delivery and ensure stable deployments.

  • Spring Boot
  • MySQL
  • WebSockets
  • CI/CD

Roguelike Game

Built a modular roguelike game in modern C/C++ with dungeon generation, event-driven simulation, and a terminal UI using ncurses. Implemented regex-based file parsing for dynamic content, AI pathfinding with Dijkstra’s algorithm, and advanced features like fog-of-war, teleportation, and artifact rarity logic.

  • C++
  • ncurses
  • Pathfinding
  • Game Design

I ♥ Open Source

Contributions to community projects, fixing bugs and documentations as well as implementing new features to open-source repositories.

  • Git
  • Markdown
  • Community

I work with

Languages

Java
Python
Kotlin
C++
C
JavaScript
TypeScript
HTML/CSS
Java
Python
Kotlin
C++
C
JavaScript
TypeScript
HTML/CSS

Frameworks

React.js
Node.js
Express.js
SpringBoot logoSpringBoot
FastAPI logoFastAPI
Bootstrap
Django
React.js
Node.js
Express.js
SpringBoot logoSpringBoot
FastAPI logoFastAPI
Bootstrap
Django

Tools

Git
Docker
Kubernetes
Gradle
Jupyter logoJupyter
Linux/Unix
Git
Docker
Kubernetes
Gradle
Jupyter logoJupyter
Linux/Unix

Have any ideas you wanna collab with? Let’s Talk!

uchakeh@gmail.comLinkedInGitHub