# Ukeshwaran Muthukumaran Radha (Kesh Muthu)

> University of Washington Informatics senior (Seattle, WA) focused on cloud
> infrastructure, network engineering, and cybersecurity, plus backend, QA,
> and IT/systems work. Builder of aplyx. Open to 2026/2027 internships and
> 2027 new-grad roles.

Contact: keshm@uw.edu (replies within one business day)
Site: https://keshm.me/
GitHub: https://github.com/keshm2
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ukeshwaran

## Background

- Senior, B.S. Informatics, University of Washington; minor in Data Science.
- Helps run the technical side of UW's Kappa Theta Pi chapter.
- Certifications: CCNA (earned), CompTIA Security+ (in progress).

## Focus areas

- Cloud infrastructure
- Network engineering (TCP/IP, routing & switching, subnetting, DNS/DHCP, Wireshark)
- Cybersecurity (OWASP Top 10, RBAC, authentication and access control)
- Backend development, QA, IT/systems

## Experience

- KredosAI, software engineering intern (2025, 2026): FastAPI and vLLM services for voice AI agents, LLM fine-tuning, RAG pipelines.
- Apexiel, software engineering intern (2024): semantic search API and Qdrant ingestion pipeline.

## Projects

- Ripprz (https://ripprz.com): Pokemon card trading app, team of five. TypeScript/Next.js/PostgreSQL/Redis/Stripe. Fixed three Stripe payout race conditions; cut inventory allocation from 10s to 13ms.
- Kappa Theta Pi member platform (https://ktpuw.org): chapter site and member portal for ~50 members. Next.js/Supabase/Stripe. Dues, event turnout up 50%, row-level security.
- aplyx (https://github.com/keshm2/aplyx): job-application agent that runs on an existing coding agent. Searches Ashby, Lever, Greenhouse, Workday; tailors resume and cover letter; applies; reports to Discord. Read-only MCP server, Redis caching (7s to under 500ms).
- Cisco school network deployment: led a team of five, 8 schools, OSPF, VLANs, DHCP.
- Smaller: kyper (offline PDF Q&A, https://github.com/keshm2/kyper), HusKey Manager (https://github.com/keshm2/passwordmanager), Discord bots (https://github.com/keshm2/bots).

## Tech

- Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, SQL, C++, Rust, PHP, R, Go (learning)
- AI: vLLM, LoRA/QLoRA, RAG, embeddings, MCP, Qdrant, Ollama
- Backend: FastAPI, Node.js, Next.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, Supabase, Docker, AWS, Linux
- Tools: Git, GitHub Actions, Playwright