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Salish Kumar

Career

Experience

5+ years of building production software across startups, enterprises, and academia.

Mobile & AI Developer

Texas Tech University

Apr 2024Present

Lubbock, TX

• Developed SURE Safety, an AI-powered safety reporting platform for the offshore energy industry

• Integrated GPT-4o Vision and RAG pipelines for automated incident classification

• Authored first-author paper accepted at IISE 2026

• Collaborated with faculty on AI safety research

Software Engineer

Royal Cyber

Jul 2022Aug 2024

Chicago, IL

• Built and maintained full-stack web applications for enterprise clients

• Led integration of LLM-powered features into existing SaaS products

• Worked with React/TypeScript frontends and Python/Node.js backends

• Shipped features used by thousands of daily active users

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Gorin Systems

May 2021Jul 2022

Jacksonville, FL

• Led development of Tripper Bus Platform, a transportation booking system serving 2M+ riders

• Architected PostgreSQL database and REST API layer with Django

• Built responsive React frontend with real-time booking features

• Mentored junior engineers and led code reviews