About Me

Software Developer
& Data Science Enthusiast

From IBM to Samsung to UCSD - driven by a passion for turning data into impact.

Priyanka Nidadavolu

Building at the intersection of software & data science

MS Data Science student at UC San Diego (GPA 3.77) with 2.5 years of industry experience at IBM, promoted from intern to Software Developer. I like figuring out why something is not working for someone, then rebuilding it in a way that holds.

At IBM I rebuilt a data validation pipeline that was silently failing and taking down batch jobs with it - processing time dropped 90%. I built an LLM-based router that analysed code diffs to decide which cloud environments actually needed testing, cutting redundant CI/CD runs and saving 40% in compute costs. I also ran clustering and time-series analysis on multi-cloud usage logs to surface waste patterns for stakeholders.

At Samsung Prism I built a pipeline to generate phoneme data from 10,000+ contact names using the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The 10% gain in recognition accuracy fed directly into the next model iteration.

Currently working part-time as a Student Build and Release Engineer at UCSD IT Services, keeping CI/CD running for campus engineering services.

Awards & Recognition

  • 2nd Place, Cloud Track + Best Use of Snowflake Cortex Award at DataHacks 2026 (36-hour hackathon, UCSD) for GridGreen
  • Star of the Month, IBM Nov 2023 - ETL pipeline rebuilds, SQL warehouse optimisation, and analytical reports adopted by Finance and Engineering
  • People's Choice Award, IBM - multi-cloud provisioner that standardised usage data across AWS, Azure, GCP; 40% cloud cost reduction
  • Top 30 nationally, Codehers Coding Challenge 2022
  • Best Project of the Cohort, KL University - Take A Trip travel platform

Languages

PythonPython
SQLSQL
RR
JavaJava
C++C++
JavaScriptJavaScript
HTMLHTML
CSSCSS
YAMLYAML

Data Science & Machine Learning

scikit-learnscikit-learn
PandasPandas
NumPyNumPy
MatplotlibMatplotlib
SeabornSeaborn
DaskDask
TableauTableau
NetworkXNetworkX
JupyterJupyter

Databases

PostgreSQLPostgreSQL
Neo4jNeo4j
MongoDBMongoDB
MySQLMySQL

Frameworks & Libraries

DjangoDjango
Spring BootSpring Boot
StreamlitStreamlit
Big DataBig Data
REST APIsREST APIs

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWSAWS
IBM CloudIBM Cloud
DockerDocker
LLMs / AILLMs / AI
CI/CDCI/CD

Developer Tools

GitHubGitHub
SwaggerSwagger
SonarQubeSonarQube
VS CodeVS Code
EclipseEclipse