Nithish Athilingam

Associate Software Engineer @ Northrop Grumman • Systems, UI, and ML tooling across C++ · Python · C# · React · Docker · Cloud · Java

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Work Experience

Nithish Athilingam

Associate Software Engineer — Northrop Grumman

February 2025 – Present
  • Developed unit tests using C++ and GoogleTest for internal libraries, improving code coverage on target libraries by 90%.
  • Integrated TPM 2.0 Software Stack (tpm2‑tss) into an internal C++ framework to enable hardware‑rooted cryptographic operations and secure data storage, enhancing overall system security.
Nithish Athilingam

Software Engineering Intern — Northrop Grumman

May 2024 – August 2024
  • Built a simulation with a realistic environment using C# (WPF .NET Framework) for tools and UI, with Unreal Engine 4 for scenario development, leveraging XAML and XML for data handling.
  • Worked in Agile with Bitbucket for version control and Jira for project management.
Nithish Athilingam

Software Engineering Intern — Battelle

August 2023 – May 2024
  • Created React.js UIs and WebSocket backends in Rust and Python.
  • Programmed microcontroller interactions in C; analyzed log data using Python/MATLAB.
  • Developed a simulator of a commercial tool using Go and React.js from an ICD.
  • Built a web server‑based unit testing app to automate UI, service, and device testing.
  • Co‑authored Interface Control and Requirements documentation for a project service.
  • Containerized and deployed apps using Docker within a virtual network for scalability and consistency.
Nithish Athilingam

Data Science Intern — AdVon Commerce

May 2023 – August 2023
  • Built a Python article suggestion tool using a pre‑trained NLP model; scheduled it daily on a VM to populate a bucket in Google Cloud Platform.
  • Created a product suggestion service in Python; containerized with Docker and deployed as an API on Google Cloud Run supporting single and batch jobs.
  • Applied Sentence‑Transformer similarity and clustering for ad targeting optimization.
  • Trained task‑specific models with TensorFlow and PyTorch for applied use cases.

Education

Nithish Athilingam

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant — Ohio State University

September 2024 – December 2024

Worked with Professor Larry Phelps to grade homework and exams and provide student feedback.

Skills & Certifications

Programming

Java, Swing, C, C++, x86‑64 Assembly, Python, HTML, CSS, React.js, Node.js, SQL, C#, MonoGame, GNU Octave, R, Linux shell, PowerShell, Google Cloud Platform, Pandas, TensorFlow, Docker, Rust, Go, WPF .NET, XML, XAML, MATLAB

Software Applications

Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, LTspice, SolidWorks, Cadence

Other Skills

Effective teamwork, communication, leadership, and management skills

Languages

English (fluent), Tamil (fluent), Spanish (Limited), Malayalam (Limited)

Projects

EcoTech Framework

August 2024 – December 2024

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