Hi 👋, my name is
Atharva Negi.
Software Engineer & Full Stack Developer
Software Engineer with 1+ years of experience in full-stack and backend systems, currently pursuing a Master's in Computer Science at Emory University. Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and scalable system design.
About Me
Hello! I'm Atharva Negi, a Software Engineer with 1+ years of experience in full-stack and backend systems development.
I am currently pursuing my Master's in Computer Science at Emory University in Atlanta, where I maintain a perfect 4.0 GPA. My expertise spans across modern web technologies, with strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and scalable system design.
Currently, I work as a Software Engineer at Emory University, where I architect and deploy production platforms supporting research initiatives — including a full-stack evaluation platform handling 2000+ runs across 4 research projects, deployed on AWS with Docker-based CI/CD pipelines.
Previously, I worked at Cognizant where I maintained high-traffic Drupal platforms, optimized MySQL performance, and improved Java Spring Boot API throughput by 30%.
I hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Devi Ahilya University with a 3.5 GPA, focusing on Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, and Database Systems.
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My Experience
- Emory University
- Cognizant
- Cognizant Intern
Software Engineer @ Emory University
February 2025 - Present
- Reduced manual review cycles by 45% by architecting and deploying a production full-stack evaluation platform using React, FastAPI, Flask, AWS RDS, and S3 supporting 2000+ evaluation runs across 4 research initiatives.
- Increased deployment frequency and reduced operational overhead by 50% by designing modular backend services and implementing 25+ RESTful APIs with Docker-based CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- Reduced deployment time by 70% by migrating a production Ruby on Rails application to a containerized AWS ECS architecture with ECR image pipelines and automated releases across development, staging, and production environments.
- Designed and deployed a full-stack academic planning SaaS platform using React, TypeScript, Flask, and PostgreSQL serving 200+ active users and processing over 10,000 academic records with high system availability.
- Engineered a rule-based validation engine for prerequisite and graduation checks across 5 academic tracks and implemented Redis caching to reduce database load and improve application response time during peak usage.
Tech Stack: React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Flask, PostgreSQL, AWS (ECS, ECR, RDS, S3), Docker, Azure DevOps, Redis
Software Engineer @ Cognizant
September 2023 - July 2024
- Debugged and resolved 20+ production defects on a Drupal 8 platform by analyzing application logs and MySQL queries, reducing recurring issues and improving system stability across multiple releases.
- Optimized MySQL database performance using composite indexing, query restructuring, and caching strategies, improving response time by 35% under peak traffic conditions.
- Increased backend service throughput by 30% by optimizing Java Spring Boot APIs and refactoring service layer logic to support higher concurrent traffic loads.
Tech Stack: Drupal 8, MySQL, Java, Spring Boot, Git, CI/CD
Software Engineer Intern @ Cognizant
January 2023 - June 2023
- Developed 20+ reusable React components across admin and user interfaces, improving UI consistency and reducing front-end development time for new features by 30%.
- Collaborated with backend engineers to optimize REST APIs and SQL queries, improving request response times by up to 25% under concurrent load.
Tech Stack: React.js, JavaScript, Java, Spring Boot, SQL
Projects
Featured Projects
Featured Project
CoRAGen - Multi-Aspect RAG Interface
Built a full-stack comparative RAG interface that enables users to analyze controversial queries across multiple stances, integrating GPT-4, Claude, and HuggingFace models with Google, Bing, and PyTerrier retrieval engines. Designed an LLM-judge evaluation pipeline validated through a user study where 80% of participants demonstrated reduced stance polarization on controversial queries.
Featured Project
ReSource - Food Sharing Platform
Spearheaded development of a full-stack resource-sharing platform across a team of 6, personally owning the React.js frontend with JWT authentication, real-time chat via Socket.IO, and an interactive Leaflet map for location-based food listings. Architected a modular Flask backend with SQLAlchemy and SQLite, designing 20+ RESTful APIs while refactoring service layers to eliminate duplicated business logic.
Other Notable Projects
RAG-BioQA System
Developed a RAG pipeline using BioBERT embeddings, FAISS search, and fine-tuned FLAN-T5 model, achieving 17% increase in BLEU-1 and 11% in ROUGE-1 on PubMedQA. Evaluated 3 re-ranking strategies (BM25, ColBERT, MonoT5) on 181K+ biomedical QA pairs.
Open Library Edition Discovery
Built a full-stack search and analytics platform over 49.3M book records (17GB) using React and Flask on GCP. Achieved 22,000x query speedup via materialized views, reducing analytics from 7 minutes to 0.02 seconds, with 24 strategic indexes across 13 tables.
Justice Incarceration Visualization
Developed an interactive web-based data visualization tool using D3.js to analyze U.S. incarceration trends with choropleth maps, bar charts, and dynamic filtering capabilities.
Skills
Programming Languages
Frameworks & Libraries
Databases
Cloud & DevOps
AI / ML / LLM Systems
Education
Master of Science, Computer Science
Emory University GPA: 4.0
Relevant Coursework: Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Database Systems
Bachelor's in Computer Engineering
Devi Ahilya University GPA: 3.5
Relevant Coursework: Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Database Systems, Data Structures & Algorithms, Cloud Computing
What's Next?
Get In Touch
I'm currently looking for new opportunities and my inbox is always open. Whether you have a question, want to collaborate on a project, or just want to say hi, I'll try my best to get back to you! Let's build something amazing together.