CV
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Open to AI Engineer and Research Engineer roles. Chicago, open to relocation. narasimhajwalapuram2026@u.northwestern.edu
Experience #
WhoBlinked — Co-Founder & CTO #
Remote · July 2026 – Present
- Multi-tenant competitor-intelligence SaaS, from data model and API contracts to the React product.
- Extraction pipeline that falls back from store APIs to structured markup to headless browsing, with block detection so failed scans never show as false changes.
- LLM features that verify model output against live search results before users see them, with per-call cost tracking.
CCL Lab, Northwestern University — Research Engineer #
Chicago, IL · Sept 2024 – Present
- Built and shipped NetLogo’s official multi-provider LLM extension (Scala; OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama, Groq), installable from the NetLogo Extension Manager.
- Built the code generator behind LEAR (GECCO ‘25) and QD-LEAR (ALife 2025).
Elevate Packaging — Software Developer (Contract) #
Remote · Apr 2026 – June 2026
- Rollstock traceability system (FastAPI, MySQL on Cloud SQL) tracking every roll from supplier to shipment.
Medhastra AI — Co-Founder & CTO #
Chicago, IL · May 2025 – Dec 2025
- LangGraph multi-agent clinical training product with an Evaluator agent grading diagnosis over 30+ turn dialogues.
Relativity — Applied Science Intern #
Chicago, IL · June 2025 – Aug 2025
- LLM-as-a-Judge pipeline over 1M+ legal documents; GPT-4o/4o-mini routing cut review time 60% and cost 40%.
- 600-example adversarial red-team benchmark that became Applied Science’s default release gate across 3 projects.
Boeing Research & Technology — SDE-2 & Data Scientist #
Bengaluru, India · July 2022 – Aug 2024
- RAG system over 20k+ aircraft manuals with a custom parser for messy PDFs, cutting manual authorship effort 80%.
- Took it from a solo prototype to $200k internal funding and a production team of 6 engineers.
Education #
Northwestern University — M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Dec 2025
PES University — B.Tech in Electronics & Communication, 2022
Publications #
- GECCO ‘25 — “LEAR: LLM-Driven Evolution of Agent-Based Rules” (ACM)
- ALife 2025 — “QD-LEAR: Quality-Diversity Tradeoffs in LLM-Evolved Agents” (MIT Press)
Recognition #
- 3rd Place, Anthropic Track — YC-hosted hackathon, Nov 2025 (VouchAI)