Dhiraj
Jha
//Systems Engineer
Systems engineer at Fisk University (CS and Math, class of 2028). Two years building distributed systems, Linux internals and AI automation pipelines across three internships including Google and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Founder of offtofly.
SWE Intern
Presidential
Scholar
Fisk Univ.
CS & Math
Who Am I
A systems engineer who believes the best technology is the technology you fully understand.
I am a systems engineer with two years of hands-on experience in Linux internals, scalable backend design and distributed systems across three internships, two of which are in the United States. I study Computer Science and Mathematics at Fisk University (class of 2028) and take electrical engineering classes at Vanderbilt. I love Go and C++ and have built AI automation pipelines at Google and the Vanderbilt University Biosafety Department.
I do not feel comfortable using technology whose working mechanism I do not understand. Be it a firmware inside an IoT device or a distributed consensus protocol, I want to know the why and the how. As a pure mathematics student I am deeply driven by fundamentals and structures. I love solving hard problems, especially ones related to travel.
— Dhiraj Jha
offtofly
Founder and Lead Engineer
Travel planning is a DAG: a directed acyclic graph of decisions. Change one node and everything downstream must recompute. No existing tool treats it that way. So I built one.
offtofly is the deterministic travel operating system. A constraint solver composes personalized itineraries without any LLM hallucination. A repair engine monitors live travel APIs 24 hours a day and proposes the smallest valid fix the moment a plan breaks. One ML layer handles taste personalization. The engine handles everything else.
Presidential Scholar
Fisk University · CS and Math · Class of 2028
Software Developer Intern
Google · Sunnyvale, CA
3 Internships
2 in the United States · 2 years of experience
Nashville, Tennessee
Open to remote and relocation
What I work with
My Tech Stack
Languages, systems, databases, and cloud tools I work with every day.
Core Languages
Systems & Protocols
Data & Storage
Cloud & Infrastructure
Core Language Proficiency
Experience
Building real-world systems across industry and research.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
CurrentSoftware Developer Intern
- Developed a hybrid rule-engine + LLM/
RAGpipeline (FastAPI,pgvector) for IBC biosafety forms, autonomously resolving high-confidence fields and grounding uncertain cases via semantic retrieval, cutting extraction time by ~95%. - Engineered a dual-track confidence layer that auto-accepts fields only when both tracks agree above a tunable threshold, routing discrepancies to a human review queue, achieving ~100% accuracy in digitalizing 5 years of records.
offtofly
FounderFounder & Lead Engineer
- Leading a 5-person team building
offtofly, a deterministic trip itinerary generator; architected the distributed system (Go/Python/C++) with REST/gRPCinter-service protocols and async worker pools for 24/7 monitoring of live travel APIs. - Designed the Experience Catalog using a graph database (
Neo4j/Go) modeling experiences as nodes with typed edges (location, timing, budget, pace), enabling the constraint solver to compose valid personalized itineraries without LLM.
Software Developer Intern
Automated Google's PRICE (Production Risks in Core Eng.) program that periodically assesses its systems' health.
- Reduced PRICE assessment time by ~99% (3 days → 15 mins) by building the automated tool
PRICELess. - Eliminated 100% of manual engineering effort in emailing, reporting, and bug tracking by orchestrating Gmail, Bug, and Google Docs APIs into a single automated workflow.
- Built a
RAGpipeline grounding LLM outputs in SRE principles, reducing hallucination and producing standardized assessment reports with consistent structure and citations. - Designed an auto-authentication service for resolving cross-service permission failures across other microservices.
Projects
Systems I've engineered — distributed, real-time, and embedded.
Flash Transfer
Distributed File System
Engineered a distributed chunk-based filesystem in Go with WAL persistence, metadata leasing, and concurrent replication pipelines. Implemented quorum recovery and heartbeat-driven failure detection to preserve consistency during node failures and parallel writes.
Bluetooth AudioSync
Multi-Speaker Sync Engine
Built a C++ multi-speaker audio sync tool for A2DP devices using concurrent playback pipelines and timestamped buffering. Reduced inter-speaker playback drift through clock-offset estimation and latency-compensated real-time synchronization.
eShopping Interface
IoT Smart Fridge Platform
Built 4 Go microservices (ordering, inventory, pricing, analytics) over gRPC for low-latency inter-service communication. Coded real-time warehouse-robot dispatch using ZeroMQ pub-sub; Built a REST API Gateway for auth, order history, and payment.
Education
A rigorous foundation in computer science and pure mathematics.
Fisk University
Presidential ScholarAug 2024 – May 2028  · Nashville, TN
Presidential
Scholar
Double
Major
Class of
2028
Coursework
Leadership & Awards
Competing at national level and leading within Fisk University.
VP, Fisk Math Club
Finalist — Nepal Olympiad in Informatics 2022
Semifinalist — Nepal Mathematical Olympiad 2022
GitHub Activity
Shipping code consistently — check out my work.
20+
Public Repos
50+
Total Stars
500+
Contributions
15+
Forks
Contribution Graph
Consistently pushing distributed systems, tools, and experiments.
Download My Resume
A one-page summary of my experience, projects, skills, and education — ready to share.
Dhiraj_Jha_Resume.pdf
Contact Me
Open to internship opportunities, research collaborations, and interesting conversations.
Let's connect
I'm always excited to meet people working on hard problems. Drop a message and I'll get back to you within 24 hours.
Location
Nashville, Tennessee