Nicholas Bovee

Senior Software Engineer | AI, Cloud, Robotics | Building scalable automated systems.

Experience

Rowan University
Senior Engineer
Glassboro, NJFeb 2021 - Present
  • Designed core ML models and a recommendation system automating research project discovery.
    • Improve alignment and outcomes for students and faculty withing Engineering college of 1500 users.
  • Lead developer (full stack) of specialized ERP in Django, eliminating workflow bottlenecks across user base.
  • Drove 3.4x user growth and 22.7x engagement growth by shipping high-impact features over 3 years.
  • Built development workflows that cut CI/CD usage 47% and enabled rapid E2E testing and integration.
  • Delivered an food pantry system under a Hunger Free Campus grant, using pi-gen and IoT devices.
    • Actively used to track food access for students in need on an 18,000-student campus.
Rowan CS Department
Machine Learning Engineer
[Dual Appointment]
Glassboro, NJFeb 2022 - Dec 2025
  • Graduate lead of a 10-member NSF research team, author on 4 publications and 2 open-source testbeds.
  • Create distributed AI training and inference pipelines with parallelization and mixed-precision on edge devices.
  • Technical Lead during NSF ICorps incubator, developing drone and robotics based agtech strategies.
  • Architected an edge-to-cloud fusion platform for critical systems, delivering 7.5% lossless inference speedups.
  • Deployed transformer architectures on robotic edge devices for real-time on-device training and evaluation.
Rowan University
Engineer III
Glassboro, NJFeb 2018 - Feb 2021
  • Built embedded firmware with protective fail-safes, making 3D print farms safe for novice operators.
  • Designed end-to-end embedded systems powering engineering research and educational projects including underwater vehicles, micro-drones, and rocket telemetry.
Ernie Green Industries
Automation Engineer
Rochester, NYDec 2015 - Aug 2017
  • Integrated custom computer vision inspection into medical device production, securing $171K/yr in savings.

Skills

Favored LanguagesPythonGoRustTypeScript
ML & AIPyTorchLangChainROSChromaDBvLLMSGLangDockerKubernetesAWS

Projects

Course Scheduling Agent
  • Implemented RAG vector search with LLM-as-judge guardrails to validate integration interfaces.
  • Enabled students to ask questions about on campus services and enroll in courses via natural-language-to-SQL.
People's Republic of Cinema
  • A deep learning recommendation and prediction system with full-stack deployment, in operation for six years.
  • Integrated online learning methods to continuously improve recommendations.
AI Training Partners for Competitive Street Fighter
  • Constrained RL agents to human limits, producing AI partners that deliberately matched the user’s skill level.

Education

Rowan UniversityMaster of Science in Computer Science
Glassboro, NJ2023
  • Inducted into Upsilon Pi Epsilon; Outstanding Graduate Award.
Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Rochester, NY2015
  • Interned at General Dynamics & iRobot Corporation.