Nicholas Bovee

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New Jersey, USA
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Profile

Product engineer with pre-AI fundamentals, amplified by agentic development. Edge AI, embedded systems, and operations, bound by web platforms. Obsessive about precision and UX that creates power users.

Skills

ML & AIPyTorchHF TransformersDSPyChromaDBLangChainvLLMscikit-learnSpark
InfrastructureDockerKubernetesDjangoROS 1 & 2AWSAzureCI/CDgRPCgit
Programming LanguagesPythonGoRustTypeScriptJavascript/ReactSQLC++C

Experience

Rowan University
Senior Engineer
Glassboro, NJ2021 - Present
  • Spearhead development of an ERP platform, resolving critical operational bottlenecks in College of Engineering.
  • Deploy high-impact features that have scaled user base 3.4x and engagement by 22.7x over 3 years.
  • Develop core algorithms for capstone project assignments alongside an LLM-based recommendation system.
  • Engineer full-stack development workflows, optimizing CICD for rapid E2E testing & integration.
↳ Applied ML Engineer
[Dual Appointment] Feb 2022 - Dec 2025
  • Architected edge-to-cloud fusion platform for critical systems, accelerating inference by 7.5% losslessly.
  • Directed a 10-member, NSF-funded research initiative, investigating optimizations of edge systems.
  • Deployed advanced transformer architectures onto robotic edge devices for real-time training and evaluation.
↳ Engineer II
Feb 2018 - 2021
  • Customized embedded firmware with protective failsafes for 3D print farms available to novice operators.
  • Designed full-stack electro-mechanical systems for internal engineering research and educational applications.
Ernie Green Industries
Engineer I
Rochester, NYDec 2015 - Aug 2017
  • Integrated computer vision inspection systems into medical device production, securing $171K/yr in savings.

Projects & Publications

SplitTracr: A Flexible Performance Evaluation Tool for […] Split Computing
ICPE2025
N Bovee, I Ali, G Patapanchala, S Bitla, SS Hohttps://doi.org/10.1145/3680256.3721971
Course Scheduling RAG Agent
Apr 2025
  • Engineered an autonomous RAG agent to streamline student navigation of University services.
  • Implemented vector similarity search and deterministic tool-calling guardrails to validate integration interfaces.
Rowan Pantry Management System
May 2024
  • Developed a custom embedded Linux image for IoT food pantry integrations and KPI tracking.
Reinforcement Learning of Street Fighter Training Partners
May 2023
  • Trained RL agents bounded by human-constrained mechanics, designed to bootstrap human skills alongside AI.

Education

Rowan UniversityMaster of Science in Computer Science, AI Focus3.94 GPA
Glassboro, NJ2023
  • Inducted to Upsilon Pi Epsilon 2022, received Outstanding Graduate Award 2023
Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Rochester, NY
  • Intern at General Dynamics & iRobot Corporation