About

Rithwik Kollipara is a Senior Engineer at Qualcomm with over 5 years of relevant experience in software development. He holds a Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego and an Undergraduate Degree in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Hyderabad, India. Rithwik is a self-motivated and result-oriented software developer with expertise in programming languages such as Python, C++, C, and Go. He has extensive knowledge of frameworks, libraries, and tools such as Hadoop, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, and Scikit-learn, among others. He is also proficient in AWS. Previously, Rithwik was a Software Engineering Intern in the Mitek Labs team at Qualcomm, where he implemented a new approach to train Tesseract (OCR Engine) on new fonts in an automated fashion. This approach resulted in a 50% speed and accuracy improvement of 3%. He also collaborated with other developers to integrate this into the core software stack. Apart from training Tesseract, Rithwik worked on font classification and handwriting recognition using deep learning. Prior to joining Qualcomm, Rithwik was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at UC San Diego, where he was responsible for interacting with students during the Physics 2BL Mechanics Lab and holding office hours and discussion sessions for Probability and Statistics courses. Rithwik's education history includes a Master's Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC San Diego, an Undergraduate Degree in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Hyderabad, and a High School Degree in Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry from Vijaya Ratna Junior College. Rithwik's technical expertise includes AWS, deep learning, Keras, Spark, Scikit, Python, TensorFlow, Hadoop, Kafka, Pytorch, and software engineering. He is passionate about using his technical skills to solve complex problems and is always eager to learn and explore new technologies.