N. ADAPALA
FLIGHT PLAN FORM 7233-1 · VFR
Pilot Nikhil Adapala
Aircraft type B.S. Aerospace Engineering + B.S. Mathematics
Departure point Austin, Texas
Route software → robotics → flight
Remarks Student pilot, en route to a Private Pilot's License.
Weather, live Fetching KAUS weather… METAR-style display from Open-Meteo, not official airport weather.

Nikhil
Adapala

I build the things I'd want to fly, orbit, and hold in my hands — then I go learn to fly the real thing.

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Pilot logbook

Two internships, logged like flight time — where I flew, and what I flew.

Summer 2025 Software Development Intern

The City of Austin — I.T. Division

Austin, TX

  • Architected the React front end for TradeRoots, a full-stack skill-exchange platform built for the Austin community.
  • Engineered messaging and reviews with React, Node.js, REST APIs, and SQL to support the full trade workflow.
  • Directed a 5-person engineering team through the full build cycle — the project won the 2025 Entrepreneurship Award.
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Spring 2024 – Summer 2025 Software Development Intern

HearingTracker

Remote

  • Designed a SQL schema managing 500+ hearing aid models across 12 brands, with 10+ spec fields each.
  • Built a React/Node.js app serving personalized recommendations to 30,000+ users across 20+ filter criteria.
  • Integrated Phonak and Oticon APIs to pull live device specs and pricing into the recommendation engine.
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Things I've built

Projects flown solo, end to end — physics, hardware, and machine learning.

StarForge

3D space engine

Summer 2026

  • Procedurally generates entire star systems, worlds and all, from a single seed.
  • Solved floating-point drift on 47,000-unit planets with dynamic origin recentering every 3,000 units.
  • Architected multithreaded terrain streaming holding roughly 100,000 scatter instances in view at any altitude.
Tap to generate a system →

N-Body Orbital Mechanics Simulator

JavaScript · Three.js

Summer 2026

  • A real-time gravitational simulator, ~2,400 lines of vanilla JS — every body pulls every other body, every frame.
  • Symplectic leapfrog integrator conserves orbital energy indefinitely, stable at 60 FPS instead of drifting like naive Euler integration.
  • Models tidal disruption at the Roche limit and momentum-conserving mergers, rendered with custom GLSL shaders.
Open the simulator Tap to play with gravity →

5 D.O.F. Robotic Hand

SolidWorks · Arduino · Python

Summer 2026

  • Designed and 3D-printed a robotic hand, modeling every finger assembly in SolidWorks.
  • Programmed an Arduino to independently actuate 5 servos over a custom serial protocol.
  • Built two Python pipelines: real-time gesture recognition via webcam, and speech-driven ASL fingerspelling.
Read the build notes Tap to move the fingers →

Multimodal Deep Learning for Financial Market Prediction

TensorFlow · FinBERT

Summer 2025 · Financial AI Research

  • Led a peer-reviewed study benchmarking six architectures for equity price forecasting.
  • Cut forecast error 34% and doubled R² to 0.68 by fusing market data with FinBERT sentiment signals.
  • Designed a custom hybrid architecture and ran ablations isolating the top predictive feature contributors.
Tap to see the lift →
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Terminal

Every repository, live from GitHub — arrivals and departures. Tap a row to open it.

FlightRepositoryStackUpdatedStatus

Pulling live board from github.com/onedope512…

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Ratings & certificates

PPL Private Pilot's License Fall 2026 · estimated
CSWA Certified SolidWorks Associate Summer 2026
PCPP Certified Professional Python Programmer Summer 2025
Education The University of Texas at Austin — B.S. Aerospace Engineering, B.S. Mathematics · Spring 2029 · GPA 4.00
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Instrument panel

What's on board.

Languages

PythonJavaC++JavaScriptC#RSQLHTML/CSS

Libraries & frameworks

TensorFlow/KerasKeras Tunerscikit-learnpandasNumPyMediaPipeOpenCVReact.jsNode.jsREST APIsFirebasePostgreSQLMySQL

Applications & tools

SolidWorksMATLABArduino IDEGitFigma3D PrintingSoldering
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Your turn: land it

Fly the final approach into Austin. Keep two white and two red on the PAPI lights beside the runway, ride out the gusts, and flare just before the wheels touch.

Cleared to land, runway 18 left

Hold the nose up to slow your descent, nose down to steepen it. Too fast at touchdown and the gear won't survive.

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Airports I've visited

Twelve fields I've visited, plus nearby places still on the list. Select a field to explore the chart.

Visited Not visited Class C Class D
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Airspace circles approximate the FAA's horizontal boundaries; actual shapes can differ. This is a visual reference, not a chart for navigation. The highlighted line does not represent a logged flight. Airport and airspace data: FAA Aeronautical Data Delivery Service. Airspace snapshot: September 2026. Check current FAA charts and NOTAMs before flight.

✓Destination

Control tower

If any of this is worth a conversation, the tower is listening on all three frequencies below.

Email adapalanikhil@gmail.com LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/nikhiladapala GitHub github.com/onedope512 Résumé View my boarding pass
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