KK Krishna Karthik Kotamraju

Krishna Karthik Kotamraju

Software engineer and USC computer science graduate student building agentic AI and full-stack systems. Previously shipped enterprise AI, fintech, and modernization projects at Brane Enterprises.

Experience

Teaching Assistant — Database Systems

University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA
May 2026 — Present

Support 100 graduate students with SQL, relational design, and database architecture, while grading assignments and exams with detailed written feedback.

SQLRelational DesignDatabase Architecture

Software Development Engineer I

Brane Enterprises · Hyderabad, India
Jan 2023 — Aug 2025

Built an enterprise AI agent that cut internal status meetings by 50%. Led an eight-person team delivering a $250K fintech onboarding microservice on AWS EKS, and contributed Python and JavaScript tooling to a company-wide COBOL-to-Java modernization initiative.

LangGraphFastAPIFAISSNode.jsMongoDBAWS EKS

Projects

MARA

Multi-Agent Research Intelligence Platform
July 2026

A full-stack RAG platform retrieving in real time from 5+ sources, including arXiv, IEEE Xplore, GitHub, and Hugging Face. Six specialized agents coordinate through a modular architecture with MCP and interchangeable Gemini, OpenAI, and Claude providers.

ReactTypeScriptNode.jsExpressRAGMCP

MockPad

Shared Code Editor
May 2026

A real-time collaborative editor built around Yjs CRDTs and a custom WebSocket layer for 50+ simultaneous clients. OpenAI Whisper feeds a three-timeline event-sourced log of code, audio, and captions for full session replay.

ReactNode.jsYjsMongoDB

DevStack

Open Source Developer Infrastructure Platform
March 2026

A self-hostable platform for feature flags, workflow orchestration, observability, authentication, analytics, and error tracking. Its event-sourced PostgreSQL engine resumes safely from history, with sub-5ms Redis flag evaluation secured by JWT/RS256 and RBAC.

Next.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLDocker

Honors & Open Source

Celestia — Meta Quest VR Stargazing

RealityShift USC

VR astronomy explorer grounding an LLM with real-time orbital data across 10,000+ celestial bodies while sustaining 90 FPS for 6DoF planetary models.

Stitch — Autonomous CI Repair Agent

OpenAI Build Week 2026

A webhook-triggered agent that reads failing GitHub Actions logs, diagnoses root causes, and opens validated fix pull requests under branch-aware trust rules.

EmojiCode — Comment-Native Cipher Game

Reddit & Phaser “Games with a Hook” Hackathon

A Reddit Devvit game with Levenshtein fuzzy matching, a fail-closed moderation classifier, and Redis-backed leaderboards.

Education

University of Southern California

Jan 2026 — Dec 2027

M.S. Computer Science · Los Angeles, CA · GPA 3.7

Coursework: Analysis of Algorithms, Information Retrieval

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Aug 2019 — May 2023

B.Tech. Computer Science and Engineering · Hyderabad, India · GPA 3.6

Coursework: Computer Networks, Data Structures, Software Engineering, Deep Learning

Skills

Programming
JavaPythonC++C#TypeScript / JavaScriptHTML / CSSSQL
AI / ML
LangGraphRAGPyTorchHugging FaceFAISSMCP
Frameworks
ReactNext.jsNode.jsExpressFastAPIGraphQL
Data & Infrastructure
PostgreSQLMySQLOracle DBMongoDBDynamoDBAWSDockerLinuxCI/CD
AWS Certified Solutions Architect — AssociateAmazon Web Services
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