Nikhil Bapat

Nikhil Bapat is a Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer at Firework since June 2023, where responsibilities include designing and implementing an RAG-based AI virtual shopping assistant, optimizing LLM observability tools, and enhancing CI/CD pipelines to improve developer productivity. Prior to this role, Nikhil served as a Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer at Emory University from August 2021 to May 2023, also contributing as a teaching assistant in the Computer Science and Economics departments. Nikhil gained internship experience at Amazon as an SDE Intern and at Firework as a Data Engineering Intern, where tasks included developing ETL pipelines and SQL query validation. Nikhil holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Economics from Emory University, completed in 2023, and is a graduate of Monta Vista High School.