Arun Thangapalam

Arun Thangapalam

CS Graduate & Software Engineer

Detroit, MI (313) 639-7215 arunramkrishna997@gmail.com

Computer Science professional with experience spanning full-stack application development and applied machine learning.

Work includes backend systems, web applications, and data-driven projects across academic and professional settings, with a strong foundation in Python, JavaScript, and modern software development practices.

  • Full-stack web app development
  • Backend APIs and database work
  • Machine learning project development
  • Data analysis and visualization
  • Debugging and feature implementation

LANGUAGES

Python / PHP / JavaScript / C# / HTML / CSS / SQL

FRAMEWORKS & TOOLS

React / Node.js / CodeIgniter / Git / GitHub Actions / VS Code / Docker / Jupyter

AI & DATA

scikit-learn / Pandas / NumPy / Matplotlib / Seaborn / MySQL / MongoDB

CORE COMPETENCIES

REST APIs / Agile / CI/CD / NLP / Data Visualization

Student Assistant

08.2024 — 12.2025

Wayne State University, C&IT

  • ▹ Support classroom AV technology and campus IT infrastructure
  • ▹ Troubleshoot hardware/software issues for faculty and students
  • ▹ Audited and managed classroom AV assets by labeling equipment IDs and maintaining accurate CMDB records.
IT Support AV Tech Troubleshooting Asset Management Customer Service

Junior Developer

Jun 2022 – Jun 2023

Enova Software and Hardware Solutions

  • ▹ Built and maintained backend features using CodeIgniter, PHP, and MySQL.
  • ▹ Developed responsive web interfaces with jQuery and Ajax; automated student data processing, reducing manual workload by 40%.
  • ▹ Collaborated in Agile sprints to deliver production-ready features.
  • ▹ Assisted in testing, debugging, and documenting code for internal and client projects.
PHP MySQL jQuery AJAX CodeIgniter Model-View-Controller (MVC)

RadioPlatform (Mar 2026)

Full-stack internet radio platform with 50,000+ live stations, infinite scroll, favorites, playlists, listening stats, and a local AI chat assistant powered by Ollama — no API key required. Built with Next.js 14, FastAPI, MongoDB, Redis, and Docker.

Next.js FastAPI MongoDB Redis Docker Ollama TypeScript
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Service Status Page (Jan 2026)

Production-ready status monitoring app built with Spring Boot — track service health, manage incidents, and display real-time status to users. Features a secure admin panel, full CRUD operations, severity levels, and 6 unit tests with 100% pass rate.

Java Spring Boot Spring Security JPA / Hibernate Thymeleaf JUnit 5 H2
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DevSwarm (Nov 2025)

Multi-agent system for software project automation with Jira API integration

Python AI/ML Jira Automation Agile Data Analysis
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Kaggle Data Science Projects (Oct 2025)

A collection of end-to-end data analysis and ML projects across diverse domains — including TED Talks virality prediction (98% accuracy with XGBoost), AI-powered resume screening, animal face classification with ResNet18 transfer learning, and EDA across Forbes Billionaires, Video Game Sales, and Google Search Trends datasets.

Python XGBoost PyTorch scikit-learn ResNet18 CatBoost TF-IDF EDA
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ICL vs Fine-Tuning & Phishing Website Detection (May 2025)

Built a Streamlit app to compare ICL vs fine-tuned NLP models (LLaMA3, DeepSeek-R1) on QA, classification, and translation tasks; evaluated using F1, Accuracy, BLEU, BERTScore, ROUGE. Developed ML pipelines for phishing URL classification with 11 models; performed feature engineering, EDA, visualization (ROC, confusion matrices); achieved 95%+ accuracy.

Python HuggingFace Streamlit scikit-learn Pandas Data Viz NLP ML Metrics
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Driveway Sealing Management System (Dec 2024)

Created a React/MySQL platform for client registration, quotes, billing, and dashboards; added PDF export, image uploads, session management. Implemented OpenStreetMap address autofetch, chat, pop-up modals, role-based dashboards, and SQL reporting for client-contractor workflows.

PHP MySQL JavaScript HTML/CSS OpenStreetMap jsPDF REST APIs
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Wayne State University

MS in Computer Science (AI/ML) — GPA: 3.53

Dec 2025

Relevant coursework: Machine Learning, AI, Algorithms, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering

United Institute of Technology

BE in Computer Science and Engineering

June 2022

Relevant coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, OOPS, DBMS, Internet Programming, Cloud Computing

Leadership & Activities

  • Secretary, CSE Dept Association 2021–2022
  • Member, CSE Dept Association 2019–2020
  • Hockey & Ball Badminton Player Varsity

Open to opportunities..

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