University of Michigan · Class of 2028
Dhruv Hegde
Building production intelligent systems — and writing fiction and philosophy at the edge of physics.
CS & Math @ University of Michigan · Author · SWE @ Visa (AIMS) · Co-Founder & CTO @ Nadir · NASA · CERN IceCube · Princeton PPPL
15
Public Repos
3+
Publications
2
Books Published
5
Research Labs
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Everything I've built.
Research papers with DOI links, production internships, open-source repos, and startup work — all indexable, all real.
Latest role
Visa · AIMS
Experience
Production systems at scale.
Visa
PresentSoftware Engineering Intern — AIMS
Architecting AIMS (Active Incident Management System) from greenfield on the full-stack data pipeline & quantitative infrastructure team — autonomous L2 incident orchestration replacing manual escalation with proprietary routing logic, AI-driven triage, and real-time classification on production Visa data lake payment telemetry
NASA
Aug 2024Software Engineering Intern
Engineered simulation + control software for a 1:10 scale wind-tunnel system; integrated PCB design, CAD, and CFD pipelines to improve biomimetic airfoil lift-to-drag ratio by 18%
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Sep 2024Software Engineering Intern
Implemented Background-Oriented Schlieren (BOS) imaging algorithms in Python/MATLAB; applied PyTorch-based ML models improving turbulence visualization accuracy by 35%
Approach
First principles, production-ready.
He cares about systems that survive production: sensor fusion under drift, stream processing at financial scale, and computer-vision pipelines that ship peer-reviewed results. His work spans three peer-reviewed publications, two published books, and 18+ open-source repositories.
Contact
Let's build something hard.
Open to software engineering, autonomous systems, and ML infrastructure roles. Always interested in hard technical problems at the intersection of research and production.