Arun Bagavathiannan

I'm a Computer Science student at UT Austin. I lead a team of five on UT Registration Plus, the Chrome extension 70,000+ students use to build their schedules. I have presented machine learning research conducted at Texas A&M in Vancouver and Spain, and I spent four years growing a YouTube channel past 20,000 subscribers.

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Experience

Longhorn Developers
Austin, TX
Technical Lead, UT Registration Plus
Aug 2026 – Present
- Promoted from Software Engineer to lead a team of 5 developers
- Introduced an agile workflow (weekly standups, Linear milestones) and enforced CI gates on every PR (Biome, Storybook, Chromatic, CodeQL), cutting median PR open-to-merge time by 63%
- Ran end-to-end hiring for the developer fellowship: screened 80+ applicants, interviewed finalists, selected 4 engineers at roughly a 5% acceptance rate
- Authored Longhorn Developers’ engineering standards guide, adopted by 54 developers across 11 project teams
Software Engineer, UT Registration Plus
Jan 2026 – Aug 2026
- Built the Course Status Checker for real-time seat tracking inside the calendar UI, cited in UT CS News coverage of the extension
- Designed a throttled refresh system in React and TypeScript to avoid API rate-limiting under university infrastructure constraints, and a reactive store synchronising state between background service workers and the frontend
YouTube
Content Creator
Jul 2021 – Jul 2025
- Grew a video-editing channel past 20,000 subscribers, 32M+ impressions and 7M+ views
- Launched and ran buyorphic.com, selling editing presets for $500+ in its first year
- Built a 26,000-member Discord community with moderation practices and video editing contests
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
ML Research Intern
Dec 2024 – Mar 2025
- Took a raw 100-image dataset to a production YOLOv8 detection model at 80%+ precision and recall
- Automated augmentation workflows in Python and OpenCV scaled training data 6×
- Presented results at 3 conferences, including the Weed Science Society of America in Vancouver and the European Weed Research Society in Spain

Education

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
B.S. Computer Science
Expected Fall 2028
GPA: 3.73. Transferred into Computer Science from Electrical and Computer Engineering. Relevant coursework: CS 311 (Discrete Math), CS 314 (Data Structures), ECE 312H (Software Design & Implementation I), ECE 319H (Embedded Systems), M 340L (Matrices and Matrix Operations).
J.F. Oberlin University
Tokyo, Japan
Study Abroad
Summer 2026
Completed 2 months of global immersion in Japan with frequent industry visits and collaboration with Japanese students. Coursework includes ECE 316 (Digital Logic Design) & ECE 351K (Probability & Random Processes).