Krishnakanth Alagiri

Krishnakanth Alagiri

I build and break code for kicks, so your production runs without glitches.

Experience

Simplify Jobs

Founding Software Engineer

Simplify Jobs

Current
August, 2025Present
San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Simplify Jobs is a YC-funded, high-traction AI-native recruiting infrastructure startup powering automated job search for early-career talent and top tech employers.
  • Building next-gen Job Search and Recommendation Platform. Get hired. Join Simplify!
Consulting/Contract

AI Engineer

Consulting/Contract

March, 2025August, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
  • Worked with multiple early stealth startups and businesses to take LLM and agent workflows from 0 to 1. Shipped production-ready systems with caching, observability, and scalable deployments.
Mattoboard

Founding Software Engineer

Mattoboard

December, 2024March, 2025
Las Vegas, NV, USA
  • Built and shipped an agentic LLM-powered material crawler (GPT-4o, o3-mini) that autonomously ingests brand sites, PDFs, and aggregators to extract, normalize, and structure high-fidelity product/inventory records (specs, availability, compliance, pricing signals, supplier metadata). Engineered a provenance-aware Knowledge Graph + GraphRAG layer (entity resolution/dedup, relationships) to link products, suppliers, and materials for semantic search and deep relationship retrieval. Faster product onboarding, catalog expansion, and sourcing decisions.
  • Created Kubernetes (AKS, GKE) pipelines for GPU inference, and serverless workflows for 3D rendering, and distributed data workflows.
Purdue University

Graduate Research Assistant

Purdue University

January 2023July 2024
West Lafayette, IN, USA
  • Led a project (Chat Analysis Triage Tool) sponsored by a Department of Justice grant, collaborating closely with the high tech crime unit to detect online child exploitation in real-time using Open Weight LMs (llama2), BERT-based Authorship Attribution Models, and a BERT-SVM classification model for risk scoring, serving law enforcement in 10 locations across the US and Spain.
  • Optimized request throughput with efficient Backend APIs, Kafka for high-volume data ingestion, and MLOps pipelines for model fine-tuning and deployment, while complying with OWASP and Data Privacy policies.
Wiley Edge

Software Development Engineer

Wiley Edge

July 2021July 2022
Bengaluru, India
  • SDE Consultant for Morgan Stanley: Developed a solution that ticket synchronization across ITSM platforms like Jira and ServiceNow using Word2Vec embedding, decision trees and Jinja2 Rule Engine to automate the discovery and synchronization of involved parties, teams, and projects. This resulted in a 40% reduction in Mean Time to Acknowledge (MTTA) and a 15% improvement in Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR).
  • Key contributions included developing the REST API backend and React frontend as microservices, improving test coverage, streamlining CI/CD pipelines, deploying with OpenShift Kubernetes Engine, and observability using Prometheus, Loki, & Grafana.
Ericsson

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Ericsson

December 2020July 2021
Chennai, India
  • Implemented a system to track and search for named entities in legal documents by leveraging language modelling (BERT) and federated machine learning, resulting in increased privacy, GDPR compliance and efficient business-vendor document exchange.
  • Implemented the user interface with React/TypeScript to enable intuitive document querying.
Bhumi NGO

Program Lead

Bhumi NGO

July, 2019Dec, 2019
Chennai, India
  • Drove a 6-member team under Tech4Change to provide technical consulting for NGOs. We set up donation portals and automation workflows, and integrated third-party tools for email, ads, and social media campaign management. I helped NGOs design campaign processes, build dashboards to track conversion and performance, and improve technical literacy so they could operate independently. I also connected them to relevant grants and sponsorship resources to reduce ongoing technology costs.
Bhumi NGO

Software Development Engineer Intern

Bhumi NGO

June, 2019July, 2019
Chennai, India
  • Engineered a cloud-native donation platform and a crowd-sourcing platform for graphic designers within the organization.
  • Piloted the migration of multiple legacy on-premises systems to Amazon Web Services (AWS) largely using EC2, IAM, and S3.
  • Setup metrics, monitoring, alert systems using Grafana and Prometheus.

Education

2022 - 2024West Lafayette, IN, USA

Master of Science in Computer and Information Technology

Purdue University

Natural Language TechnologiesData Privacy and SecurityIT Project ManagementCloud InfrastructureHuman-Computer InteractionResearch Methods in Computing
2017 - 2021Chennai, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Anna University

Data Structures and AlgorithmsCloud ComputingOperating Systems and KernelsComputer ArchitectureData AnalyticsDatabases

Achievements & Awards

National Finalist at Smart India Hackathon

AICTE, Government of India

August, 2020

First Place at Smart Finance Hackathon

Daksh, SASTRA University

February, 2020

Third Place at Hack and Tackle 1.0

SSN College of Engineering

Feburary, 2019

Third Place at St. Peter's Hack

St. Peter's College of Engineering and Technology

March, 2019

Leadership & Activities

Lab Member

AKRaNLU Lab, Purdue University

August, 2022 - August, 2024

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Purdue University

August, 2022 - December, 2022

Student Instructor - Programming & Data Structures

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering

August, 2019 - February, 2021

Chairperson

SVCE ACM Student Chapter

June, 2020 - June, 2021

Membership Chair

SVCE ACM Student Chapter

June, 2019 - June, 2020

School Pupil Leader

Velammal Vidyalaya

May, 2015 - June, 2016

Projects

ChatWatch Language Model

ChatWatch Language Model

A nodel graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation system to improve LLM performance in social reasoning tasks, achieving significant accuracy improvements by integrating domain-specific knowledge and advanced prompting techniques.

Pun Recommendation System

Pun Recommendation System

Implemented an Alexa Bot leveraging Articulatory Phonetics, weighted Levenshtein, and BERT for pun recommendations. Successfully developed sound and sense similarity using a robust database, enhancing user engagement and satisfaction.

Cyber Offense Detecting and Reporting (CODAR) Framework

Cyber Offense Detecting and Reporting (CODAR) Framework

AI internet moderation system using BERT and RESNET50, achieving state of the art performance in toxic text classification and image classification. Built scrapers for preparing a sensitive image classification dataset.

Resource and Event Management System (REMS)

Resource and Event Management System (REMS)

An unified system for certificate generation and distribution, volume mailing, advanced form generation, mailing lists, monitor databases and a link shortener for small organisations/clubs.

Psychological Analysis Of Text Messages

Psychological Analysis Of Text Messages

Leveraged BERT for multi-class sentiment analysis to dynamically track and predict emotional shifts across text message sequences, utilizing a vector database for enhanced data handling and accuracy.

Sign Language Translator

Sign Language Translator

Built a translator using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to classify signs with over 86% accuracy. The application was able to understand the variations among different national and regional sign languages dialects through crowd-sourcing.

Skills & Technologies

PythonGoJavaJavaScriptHTML5CSS3PHPC++Linux/GNU BashDockerLLMKubernetesSonarQubeJenkinsTravisCISpringApache SparkSciKit-LearnPandasNumPyPyTorchTensorflowOpenCVPyTestSeleniumFlaskFastAPI FrameworkGrafanaGitAWSMySQLMongoDBInfluxDBCouchDB

Get in Touch

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