Krishnakanth Alagiri

Krishna says hi!

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

What’s new

Projects

What I work on

Agentic SystemsBackend APIsEmbedding & RetrievalRecommendation SystemsProduct EngineeringCloud-NativeRAGGraphRAGKnowledge GraphsLLMOpsModel ServingDistributed SystemsDeveloper ToolingObservability

Experience

Simplify Jobs

Founding Software Engineer Current

Simplify JobsAugust, 2025 to PresentSan 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!
Independent Consulting

Software Engineer Consultant - AI Infrastructure

Independent Consulting2025 to August, 2025Seattle, WA, USA

  • Worked with multiple early stealth startups and businesses to take LLM and agent workflows from 0 to 1, shipping production-ready systems.
Mattoboard

Founding Software Engineer

MattoboardDecember, 2024 to March, 2025United States

  • Built an agentic LLM-powered crawler that autonomously ingests external sources to extract and structure product and inventory data for semantic search and retrieval.
  • Built cloud pipelines for GPU inference and serverless 3D rendering workflows.
Purdue University

Research Assistant

Purdue University2023 to July, 2024West 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 social-network crimes in real-time using Open Weight LMs (llama2), BERT-based Authorship Attribution Models, and a BERT-SVM classification model for risk scoring.
  • 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 Edge2021 to 2022Bengaluru, India

  • SDE Consultant for Morgan Stanley: Developed a solution that synchronizes tickets across ITSM platforms like Jira and ServiceNow using Word2Vec embeddings, decision trees, and a Jinja2 Rule Engine to automate the discovery and mapping of involved parties, teams, and projects. This resulted in a 40% reduction in Mean Time to Acknowledge (MTTA) and a 15% reduction 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.

Education

Master of Science in Computer and Information Technology

Purdue University

2022 - 2024West Lafayette, IN, USA

Natural Language TechnologiesData Privacy and SecurityIT Project ManagementCloud InfrastructureHuman-Computer InteractionResearch Methods in Computing

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science

Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering, Anna University

Chennai, India

Data Structures and AlgorithmsCloud ComputingOperating Systems and KernelsComputer ArchitectureData AnalyticsDatabases

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

Get in Touch

Hiring, open source collabs, hackathon sponsorships, or just a wild idea you want to riff on. Let's talk.