Abhiram Nair

The University of Texas at Austin

First-year student in the Department of Computer Science.

Stony Point High School — Round Rock, Texas

Computing coursework: IB Computer Science HL (5), AP Computer Science A, AP Computer Science Principles, Foundations of Cybersecurity. Also IB Business Management, Business Law, and Practicum in Entrepreneurship. SAT 1520 (Math 780, English 740). Full AP and IB score report available on request.

Polaris Inc.

• Contributed to DevTools, an internal platform letting hundreds of developers test software against mock vehicles, reducing testing cost and turnaround.
• Built into the D-Bus system that simulates live vehicle data for real-time testing of Polaris infotainment systems, working in C++, QML, JavaScript, and CSHTML.
• Helped launch a multi-year rules-engine project to streamline data collection, storage, and manipulation, reducing the company’s data storage costs.
• Learned to work inside a large shared codebase and collaborate across teams in a corporate engineering environment.

Code2College

• AI Program (Dec 2024 – Mar 2025): built a full-stack outfit-generation web app over 100 hours using OpenAI, Gemini, and Imagen; presented to executives from Indeed and Favor and an audience of 50+, winning the People’s Favorite AI Project Award.
• Elite Program (Dec 2023 – May 2024): nominated into a technical internship preparation track covering Git, Jira, source control, Miro, and software testing; built a Python and SQL banking application as the capstone.
• Embedded Systems I (Sep – Nov 2023): developed a vehicle dashboard GUI in C++ and Qt Creator on a Raspberry Pi, wiring GPIO circuits to connect the interface to physical hardware.

TechSparx Technology Training School

• One-on-one instruction progressing from programming fundamentals through nested loops, strings, lists, and file handling.
• Final projects included a 1,000+ line Python Turtle artwork, a bulk email sender, and a standalone application with a Tkinter front end over a MySQL database.

Capsule Closet

Gemini-based clothing recognition with OpenAI outfit generation against weather, calendar, and preferences, plus peer-to-peer clothing sharing. Later taken into market testing with 100+ survey responses as a student business.

Hardware memory game

Built in one hackathon; led decomposition, delegation, and the closing presentation to judges.

Workout form tracker

Real-time feedback on exercise form from a webcam; nine hours from start to prototype and pitch, placing 3rd of 30+ teams.

Employee Management System

State persistence, automatic wage calculation, and separate manager and employee dashboards; extended continuously across the course.

People’s Favorite AI Project Award — Code2College

Top audience award in a four-month competition among six teams, judged by a panel and an audience of 50+.

3rd place — CodeWizardsHQ and Round Rock ISD Hackathon

Nine-hour build against 125 participants, judged on both working software and presentation.

1st of 35 teams, Region — HOSA Community Awareness

Designed and presented a public health outreach campaign.

State finalist — DECA Entrepreneurship Team Decision Making

Partner event: identify a business opportunity, build a plan, and pitch it to judges.

3rd place — Cirrus Logic Robotics Hackathon

Zumo robot navigation in MicroPython, leading a team of seven and presenting to six judges.

1st at Stony Point High School — UIL Computer Science, raw written score

Forty advanced Java questions in forty-five minutes individually, plus the two-hour team programming event.