Harika Raju

I like going down rabbit holes, understanding how things work, why they work, and how to make them work better. My interests sit somewhere between systems engineering, R&D, and building products. I'm comfortable with C/C++ for low-level programming, have an intermediate grasp of Java, and enjoy digging into OS, DBMS, computer networks, system design, and the mathematics behind computation. I care more about optimization, scalability, and sound engineering than shipping a quick fix that barely survives production. My journey has taken me from web and mobile development to agentic AI, cloud platforms, and systems that interact with the real world. At ISRO ISTRAC, I worked on real mission-control data to develop an agentic system, combining low-level engineering with a custom semantic retrieval algorithm for RAG. At AidenAI, I worked across backend engineering, agents, and bots before building the v1 of an internal agentic development lifecycle product, exploring advanced agent architecture along the way. I've also worked directly with the CTO on internal products. Beyond that, I've published research on real-time anomaly detection using YOLO-based preprocessing for real-world data, become a global nominee for the NASA Space Apps Challenge with an offline-first, gamified Flutter app teaching rural children about exoplanets, and explored drone software, model deployment, Jetson Xavier hardware, real-time inference on an NVIDIA A100, and a little Unity game development. I work with agentic platforms like CrewAI and AutoGen, alongside cloud technologies, but I'm not interested in letting AI do my thinking for me. It's a tool for exploration, experimentation, and accelerating ideas Outside the usual stack, you'll probably find me exploring Linux distributions or researching an idea long before writing the first line of code. Researcher by instinct. Developer by practice. Linux enthusiast by choice. Perpetually curious about what happens under the hood