Hi, I'm Ritesh Thipparthi

Software Engineer • AI/ML Developer • 7x Hackathon Winner

“Build things people actually use.”

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About Me

• Computer Science student at the University of Maryland
• Working at Terrapin Works on Pinpoint, an API-first platform supporting 3,000+ users
• Researcher in the STARAPTOR Lab, focusing on renal histopathology and feature analysis
• Experienced in building real-time systems, voice agents, and applied ML projects
• Seven-time hackathon winner, with projects across AI, systems, and developer tools

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Some Projects

Pinpoint
Campus-wide makerspace management system with automated workflows, permissions, and analytics

TaxDaddy
Real-time voice-driven tax system with 500ms streaming pipeline, OCR, RAG, and fraud detection(approached by F500)

FocusFlow
EEG-based attention monitoring platform using HemiAttentionLSTM and WebSockets

See With Me
Ray-Ban-based forensic analysis system using YOLOv11n with bounding-box delta filtering

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Contact

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rthipparthi/
• Portfolio: https://ritesh-thipparthi-portfolio.vercel.app/
• Email: rthippar@umd.edu