Madhumitha Rajesh
I used to be scared of AI.
Now I'm building with it.
January 2026, I made a resolution to stop running from AI and just figure it out. So I did. Built RAG pipelines. Read through the EU AI Act and US regulations. Got deep into algorithmic fairness and what responsible AI actually means in practice. Then pushed myself into my first hackathon in February thinking it would be too hard, won it. Did 6-7 more. Won first place at AIMS 2026 with Halo. I'm a little obsessed now.
Before that: BS in Computer Graphics Technology from Purdue, 2024. My first internship was at Collins Aerospace, a UX designer working on aerospace avionics, which taught me that design genuinely matters when the stakes are high. Co-founded BeSync, a health and wellness platform. It didn't scale. That failure taught me more than any class ever did. Now I'm an MS student in Information Management at UW, and I'm building something new.
Outside of work, I'm a Formula 1 fan, a tennis player, a stargazer. Aerospace has been a thing since before I could articulate why, and I'm working toward my private pilot license and can't wait to get back in the air. I like things that feel impossible until you understand them. Turns out that's most things.
A life in photos.
20 photos. Drag each one off the pile.
Dragged my parents to snow from Qatar. They were not impressed. I was.
Salesforce x Lovable hackathon. This is where I stopped being scared of building.
First solo flight. It started raining 10 minutes in. Still here.
Won my first competition in kindergarten. Been chasing that feeling since.
San Diego. Sunshine all week. Seattle could never.
First Halloween in Seattle. Yes I am a Subway Surfers character.
Built a rocket to reach the Karman line at Purdue. My best friend now works at NASA.
My home race. Qatar Grand Prix. I was in heaven.
Du du du du. Max Verstappen.
Living it up with Neil Armstrong at Purdue. We are alumni.
Met a UW Fosters grad businesswoman. Networking is just making friends with intention.
Tiramisu. Will have this anytime, anywhere. Love of my life.
First case comp after years of running from hackathons. Won it. Confidence x1000.
MSIM friends at Figma FigBuild build-a-thon.
Friends, BBQ night. Networking is more fun with food.
You will always find me acting like a kid around planes.
Love a good sunset. Non-negotiable.
Literally in dreamland. Houston, we do not have a problem.
Hail Purdue. Boiler up.
This is where Sera was born. Built in 4 hours at a Lovable hackathon. Still going.
Fear → Built it.
A running list of things that scared me, and what I did about it.
RAG pipelines. EU AI Act. US regulations. Algorithmic fairness deep-dives. Won 1st at AIMS 2026 with Halo.
Jan 2026Pushed myself in February thinking it would be too hard. Won the first comp I entered. Did six more. Haven't stopped.
Feb 2026Co-founded BeSync. It didn't scale. That failure taught me more than any class ever did. Building something in stealth now.
2023Working toward my private pilot license. Still going.
OngoingEntered my first one. Won it.
2026Experience
Currently active
Graduate Research Assistant
UW HCDE·Seattle
Co-Founder
Stealth AI Startup·Seattle
UX Research Intern
PLAYER·London
UX Design & Automation Intern
Cappiello Law·Remote
UI/UX Designer Intern
JerseySTEM·New Jersey
Product UX Designer Intern
Lukka·New York, NY
Systems Engineering Intern
Collins Aerospace·Cedar Rapids, Iowa