Aryan Thakar — Software Engineer
UMD CS ’26 • Full-stack • AI/ML • Web Security

About Me

Computer Science undergraduate at the University of Maryland (expected Dec 2026). Interested in building reliable, secure, and user-focused software. Experience spans full-stack engineering, AI/ML, and web security across internships, research, and teaching.

Experience Highlights

Creative Software Developer Intern — RedPeg Marketing

May–Aug 2025 • Alexandria, VA

Improved a retrieval-augmented generation chatbot’s query resolution quality by 30%; built a CustomGPT workflow with Microsoft Graph API + OpenAI function calling, saving 30–40 min/week per employee.

Research Fellow — NSF TRAILS (UMD)

Jun 2024–Jan 2025 • College Park, MD

Designed inclusive interview protocols to reduce bias in automated video interviewing systems; implemented feature extraction with dlib/OpenCV, improving accuracy by 0.1 MSE.

Teaching Assistant — CMSC388J: Building Secure Web Apps

Fall 2025–Present • UMD

Assist instruction in secure, full-stack web apps; topics and tooling include Python/Flask, Django, MongoDB, and modern front-ends such as Svelte/React.

SEO Tech Developer

Jun 2025–Present • Remote

Built a movie/TV review application using Flask, Jinja, and SQLAlchemy to prompt thoughtful, structured reviews.

Projects

DocuWell

OpenAI • React • MongoDB • Auth0

Patient–doctor chatbot prototype; improved interaction quality by 20% with structured follow-ups.

ReactOpenAIMongoDB

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Bias in Public Datasets

Python • Fairlearn • LIME

Fairness analysis on U.S. Census & UCI Heart Disease models; surfaced parity/accuracy trade-offs and gender feature over-weighting.

PythonFairlearnLIME

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Authentic Screen Talk

Flask • Jinja • SQLAlchemy

Movie/TV review site that prompts thoughtful reviews beyond star ratings.

FlaskJinjaSQLAlchemy

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Cons App — Ethical Consumption

React Native • Android Studio

Prototype that helps users find ethical product alternatives, reducing search time by ~50%.

React NativeMobile

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SEO Dev — Review App

Flask • Jinja • SQLAlchemy

App used in SEO Tech Developer program to elicit higher-quality opinions with prompt-guided form flows.

FlaskSQLAlchemy

Skills

JavaPythonCRustOCaml JavaScriptSQLReactReact Native Node.jsFlaskMongoDB TensorFlowPyTorchOpenCV FairlearnLIME