Srihari Krishnaswamy

Software Engineer • Researcher • Student

Education & Coursework

University of Washington, Seattle — BS in Computer Science, Math Minor (Expected June 2026)
GPA: 3.6 | 4x Dean's List

Relevant Courses: Distributed Systems, Networks, Machine Learning, Systems Programming, Data Structures, Algorithms, AI, Computer Security, Linear Algebra, Discrete Math

Experience

Amazon — Software Development Engineer Intern (June 2024 - Sept 2024)

  • Saved over $50K/year by building a full-stack query system to help devs manage on-call tickets faster.
  • Handled 1.1M new records weekly with a robust backend system.
  • Used AWS Lambda, Java, API Gateway, SQS/SNS to support high traffic APIs.
  • Implemented frontend auth & deployed using S3 and CloudFront.

UW CSE — Teaching Assistant (Mar 2024 - Present)

  • TA for CSE 123 (~600 students), teaching OOP, recursion, linked lists & trees.
  • Run section twice a week, hold office hours, and grade assignments weekly.

UW Underwater Robotics — Software Lead (Jan 2023 - Mar 2024)

  • Led software team of 10; developed motion code & CV pipelines in Python & Godot.
  • Placed 2nd nationally at MATE ML competition for organism classification project.

The Verse — Software Intern (June 2023 - Sept 2023)

  • Worked on a MERN stack app; built backend with Node.js & MongoDB.
  • Created frontend audio modulation tool in React & secured auth with JWT.

CodeAhead — Co-Founder & Director (Jan 2021 - Aug 2022)

  • Ran a nonprofit teaching 250+ students Python/Java with 16 staff members.
  • Raised over $7,000 for charities and developed 48 hours of curriculum.

Research

Makeability Lab — Research Intern (Dec 2023 - Jan 2024)

  • Work on Project Sidewalk, a crowd-labeled accessibility map used by Google Maps.
  • Maintain JS, Scala, PostgreSQL stack and ship backend changes to prod weekly.

UW HCI Lab — Research Assistant (Feb 2023 - July 2023)

  • Co-authored a paper on making data visualizations more accessible to blind users.
  • Helped run interviews, literature reviews & submitted work to ASSETS 2025.

UC Santa Barbara — Research Intern (June 2021 - July 2021)

  • Led AR/VR research project; created C#/Unity simulations exploring violence in VR.
  • Presented research paper to 100+ academics.

Projects

Trap Deconstructed — ML for Music (June 2023 - July 2023)

  • Used CNNs (PyTorch) to analyze songs & generate similar audio characteristics.
  • Built full Flask+React app & deployed with Docker.

SeaScout — Deep-Sea CV Desktop App (Feb 2023 - June 2023)

  • Built an object detector in Python (YoloV5) to classify underwater organisms.
  • Trained on 16K+ images & packaged into an oceanography tool.

Skills