Kausshik Manojkumar

Software Engineer I at RTX (Collins Aerospace) — Cedar Rapids, IA. Safety-critical flight management systems. Iowa State University B.S. Computer Science (2025), GPA 3.97. ACM TKDD 2025 contributor.

Current work

One of three engineers selected to define migration strategy for a 2M+ LOC Ada-to-C++ modernization of flight management software at RTX. Reimplementing core legacy flight-plan functionality in modern C++ and co-developing an internal PyTest framework that reduced manual testing effort by ~40%.

Contact

Projects

QuillReader — Native macOS PDF reader with privacy-first AI annotations. Swift, SwiftUI, PDFKit, CryptoKit. In development. Source.
UniLibrary RAG — Production retrieval system over 1,000+ academic PDFs. Hybrid retrieval plus LLM validation pass. 95%+ citation accuracy, sub-2s latency. Deployed to 3 departments. Python, LangChain, Qdrant, GCP. Source.
Time-Series Forecasting with Transformers — Custom Transformer for financial time-series. Outperformed ARIMA by 18% and LSTM by 7% on multi-step horizons (MSE). PyTorch. Source.

Skills

Languages: C++, C, Python, Swift, Java, TypeScript, SQL, Bash. ML/AI: RAG, Transformers, time-series modeling, embeddings, fine-tuning. Systems: Spring Boot, FastAPI, REST, WebSockets, Linux. Infra: AWS, GCP, Docker, Qdrant, MySQL, DynamoDB.

Publications

ACM TKDD 2025 — Graph-based time-series forecasting with Graph Sequence Attention (acknowledged contributor).

Machine-readable summary (llms.txt)