Rudraksh
Rudraksh Bhandari at Amazon Web Services
Bhandari

Co-founder, Outfitr · 2x SWE Intern @ AWS · CS + ML @ UCSD Shipped my first app at 16. AWS SWE Intern at 18. Now, building the social layer for fashion.

Rudraksh Bhandari

About

I'm building Outfitr — wardrobe-first social fashion that plans what to wear today from clothes you already own.

Before this, I co-founded NomNom, a dining-hall delivery marketplace for UCSD's ~40k students, building both the student and rider apps before UCSD admin shut us down. This was my most public failure, and it taught us that consumer products that depend on institutional permission are fragile.

I recently wrapped up my second summer as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) Intern on the AWS EC2 Gateway Networking team and am heading back to UC San Diego for my final two quarters.

I'm a third-year Computer Science major and ML researcher at University of California San Diego, where I'm working with the Alternative Computing Technologies Lab and the Statistical Visual Computing Lab (SVCL).

I also build for public impact: NyaayWatch turns Indian court-system snapshots into public evidence surfaces, and ShareAllBooks was a UAE book-sharing app featured in national press that reached 2K+ downloads and 1,500+ book transactions.

At Triton Software Engineering, I built full-stack features for the David Brower Center using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Prisma, and Postgres.

2K+ App Downloads
— Monthly Site Visitors

Where I've shipped

Experience

Wrapped up my second summer interning at AWS. Now: final two quarters at UCSD, Outfitr, and undergraduate research.

Jun 2026 – Sep 2026

Amazon Web Services

Software Development Engineer Intern ·
EC2 Gateway Networking Team

Santa Clara, CA

Rudraksh Bhandari at Amazon Web Services
  • Built a Python gameday fault-injection framework for AWS Hyperplane, translating three historical customer-impacting incidents into repeatable failure scenarios using AWS Fault Injection Service and service APIs.
  • Designed TCP peer-exchange and UDP health-probe failure scenarios across a pre-production Hyperplane fleet of 2,500+ hosts, tracing failure propagation through distributed host and target health systems.
  • Reduced a multi-step manual gameday workflow to a single CLI command covering fault injection, CloudWatch evidence collection, health validation, rollback, and recovery.
Jun 2025 – Sep 2025

Amazon Web Services

Software Development Engineer Intern ·
EC2 Gateway Networking Team

Sunnyvale, CA

  • Built a React/TypeScript CLI command generator for on-call incident response, cutting manual engineer effort by 75% and reducing command preparation time from over 2 minutes to under 30 seconds.
  • Engineered a Java/Python AWS event service using Lambda, SSM, SQS, and SNS to surface patch status across EC2 cluster groups, improving visibility for root-cause analysis during incidents.
Apr 2026 – Present

Outfitr

Co-founder & Lead Developer

Remote

Outfitr landing page showing a personal stylist and virtual try-on
  • Launched a fashion app that helps Gen Z decide what to wear from clothes they already own, with closet import, outfit recommendations, and friend polls; ranked in the top 10% of Y Combinator Summer and Fall '26 applicants.
  • Architected a production multimodal closet-extraction pipeline using SAM3, VLM-based classification, and embedding-based deduplication, processing 200+ real-customer photos across 100+ jobs and adding 300+ garments to users' closets.
Aug 2023 – Sep 2024

ShareAllBooks

Founder

United Arab Emirates

Khaleej Times article about ShareAllBooks
  • Built and launched a React Native book-sharing app on App Store & Play Store, reaching 2,000+ downloads and 1,500+ donations/sales within months.
  • Featured in national UAE press; peaked at #41 in the App Store's Top Charts for Books.
  • Utilized React Native, JavaScript, Firebase, and EmailJS for user authentication, data storage, and email confirmations.
Apr 2026 – Present

NyaayWatch

Founder · Open-source civic data platform

India · Remote

  • Built and operate an open-source court-data platform serving 10,000+ monthly visitors across India's Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, and 36 lower-court geographies through public APIs, evidence packs, and interactive dashboards.
  • Designed a reproducible pipeline that separates raw court-data captures from published data, storing evidence in S3 and immutable snapshots in Postgres for validation, replay, and rollback.
NyaayWatch public court-data dashboard
Apr 2026 – Present

UC San Diego · SVCL

Undergraduate Researcher

San Diego, CA

  • Developing a unified model for generation, embeddings, and agentic routing in Prof. Nuno Vasconcelos' Statistical Visual Computing Laboratory (SVCL).
  • Using LoRA-based embedding distillation and generation replay to improve retrieval.
Mar 2026 – Present

UC San Diego · ACT Lab

Undergraduate Researcher

San Diego, CA

  • Benchmarking dense prefill vs. KVCOMM time-to-first-token on H100s across multi-agent workloads in Prof. Hadi Esmaeilzadeh's Alternative Computing Technologies (ACT) Lab.
  • Evaluating KV-cache reuse to understand its impact on multi-agent inference.
Sep 2025 – Mar 2026

NomNom

Co-founder

San Diego, CA

  • Built a two-sided dining-hall delivery marketplace for UCSD's ~40k students — separate React Native apps for students and riders, with Stripe payments, live order tracking, and UCSD-only SSO.
  • Shipped the Student and Rider apps in closed beta; handled product, engineering, and operations end-to-end alongside my co-founder.
NomNom Campus Food Delivery App Store listing NomNom Rider Campus Delivery App Store listing
Nov 2024 – Jun 2026

Triton Software Engineering

Software Developer · Nonprofit client projects

San Diego, CA

  • Built full-stack features for David Brower Center, a database platform for nonprofit organizations to visualize relationships between NPOs, using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Prisma, and Postgres.
  • Previously developed features for Psyches of Color, a mental health mobile app for underserved communities, using React Native, Node.js, Express.js, and MongoDB.
Triton Software Engineering team photo

Selected work

What I'm building

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Building now

Outfitr

Co-founder · iOS waitlist live · internal TestFlight beta · Wardrobe-first AI styling

AI styling app that solves outfit decision fatigue. Describe the occasion, Outfitr picks from your actual wardrobe, you preview it with virtual try-on, and poll friends if you want a second opinion.

  • iOS app: wardrobe photo upload → auto-tagging by type and color → occasion-based outfit generation.
  • AI pipeline for closet cataloging and outfit composition with reasoning.
  • Virtual try-on so you preview looks on your own photo before committing.
  • Social polling: share outfit options with friends for live votes.
TypeScriptReact NativeAIAWS
Visit outfitrapp.com →

Prior work

NomNom

Co-founder · Built student + rider apps · Sep 2025 – Mar 2026

Two-sided dining-hall delivery marketplace for UCSD's ~40k students. Built and shipped both the student and rider apps. Shut down by UCSD administration — taught us that products requiring institutional permission don't scale.

  • Built dual React Native apps (Student + Rider) in a TypeScript monorepo.
  • Firestore transactions for order accept/drop-off; OTP + live tracking eliminate double-claims and disputes.
  • Stripe payments, Expo Location ETAs, in-app chat, UCSD-only SSO.
React NativeTypeScriptFirestoreStripe
Visit nomnom.cc →

ShareAllBooks

2K+ installs · 1,500+ book transactions · featured in UAE national press

Founded and shipped a book-sharing app for the UAE, App Store + Play Store. Handled auth, real-time database, and transactional email end-to-end.

React NativeFirebaseEmailJS
Visit shareallbooks.com →

NyaayWatch

Public-interest · 10K+ monthly visitors · Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, every state & UT · NJDG-sourced · Reproducible snapshots

Publishes reviewed, versioned snapshots of pending caseloads, clearance rates, and wait times across India's Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, and the lower courts in every state and Union Territory — drawn from public NJDG data with full methodology, every number linked to a dated source.

Node.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLAWS
Visit nyaaywatch.in →

Also built

Vibe Tracker

GitHub commit analytics — dedup'd SHA tracking, branch/PR activity, OAuth.

Next.jsTypeScriptPrisma
Live →

David Brower Center

Nonprofit relationship-mapping platform with Triton Software Engineering.

TypeScriptReactPostgres
GitHub →

Psyches of Color

Mental-health mobile app for underserved communities, 12-person TSE team.

React NativeNode.jsMongoDB
GitHub →

Health Metrics Dashboard

Personal Oura Ring data pipeline — GitHub Actions, trend charts, daily status.

JavaScriptOura APIChart.js
Dashboard →

Skills & Stack

I work across the stack with TypeScript, Java, Python, and C++. On the frontend I build with React, React Native, and Next.js. My backend toolkit includes Node.js, Express.js, Prisma, and Fastify. I'm comfortable across databases — PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Firestore, and MySQL. For cloud and infrastructure I work with AWS, Firebase, Vercel, Stripe, and Git, with mobile deployment experience through Expo.

Open to SWE full-time roles from March 2027

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