Della Khakzad
Software Engineer II
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
1111 RELLIS Parkway
Bryan, TX 77807
(979) 317-2498
[email protected]
Della is a software engineer specializing in data engineering, transportation analytics, AI-driven systems, and cloud-based application development. Her work focuses on building scalable data pipelines, automated analytics workflows, and interactive visualization tools that support transportation research, planning, and decision-making. She has experience processing and analyzing large-scale transportation datasets, including connected vehicle, trajectory, trip, border crossing, and geospatial data. She works with technologies such as Python, SQL, PySpark, Databricks, Microsoft Azure, Azure OpenAI, PostgreSQL, Power BI, Tableau, React, and FastAPI to develop end-to-end solutions for data collection, processing, analysis, visualization, and reporting. Her recent work includes developing automated survey and reporting systems, migrating large-scale analytics workflows to cloud and high-performance computing environments, designing APIs and database-driven applications, and exploring generative AI, large language models, and retrieval-augmented generation to improve data accessibility and organizational knowledge discovery. She is particularly interested in applying AI, cloud computing, and modern software engineering practices to make complex transportation data more usable, searchable, and actionable.
