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Samhith Kakarla

Intern Software Engineer specializing in developer productivity and data/AI systems

IntuitUC BerkeleyLos Angeles, California1 Years ExperienceIntern LevelWorks On-Site

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Internship experience at Intuit building an LLM-grounded QA system for internal microservice data across 100+ microservices, using a graph database approach (evaluated Neo4j and selected AWS Neptune for production alignment). Also has UC Berkeley research experience (including work with Prof. Dawn Song / Berkeley Eye Research Lab) and cross-functional collaboration with bioinformatics/biology teams to deploy software systems on research servers.

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Key Strengths

  • Built an LLM-grounded QA prototype over internal data spanning 100+ microservices
  • Pragmatic architecture selection (evaluated Neo4j vs AWS Neptune; chose based on AWS production fit)
  • Uses PoC-first approach to validate end-to-end behavior before scaling
  • Strong troubleshooting approach for LLM workflows via monitoring/logging and output validation
  • Able to identify data-source/grounding issues causing incorrect LLM answers and iterate via model tweaks/fine-tuning
  • Adapts technical demos to audience expertise; comfortable with expert-level Q&A
  • Cross-disciplinary communicator (worked with biologists/bioinformatics stakeholders to implement needed systems)

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Experience

Software Engineering InternIntuit · May 2024 – Aug 2024internship
Academic InternUniversity of California, Berkeley · Aug 2022 – Dec 2022internship

Education

UC Berkeleybachelor, Computer Science (2025)
UCLAmaster, Artificial Intelligence (2026)

Languages

English

Publications

2 publications

Cystic fibrosis genetic marker predictionComputational biology simulations for Alzheimer's/tau protein reductionFederated reasoning with LLM agents

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Samhith KakarlaIntern Software Engineer specializing in developer productivity and data/AI systems