TARAN PAL SINGH — SOFTWARE ENGINEER · CS @ SOUTHAMPTON

I BUILD
SYSTEMS, AGENTS
& PRODUCTS END-TO-END

2:1 · GRADUATING 2028
LOOKING FOR 2027 SWE/AI INTERNSHIPS
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Computer Science undergraduate at the University of Southampton. I ship production systems end-to-end — backend services, full-stack apps, and AI agent tooling — with two internships and two hackathon wins already shipped before year two.

12+Shipped projects
1stAgentic Commerce Hackathon, 400 builders
2×Internships by year one
2:1Current grade
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Experience

JUN 2026 — PRESENT
Project Data Support InternNOW
Fiander ETL · Southampton

Migrating and restructuring client data across systems, including CCH accounting software; building Excel/SQL data-cleansing pipelines.

2026 — PRESENT
Partnerships Director
180 Degrees Consulting · University of Southampton

Lead client acquisition and partnerships at the world's largest university consultancy, after delivering a live client engagement as consultant. Incoming Tech Head, Entrepreneurship Society.

MAR 2026
Software Developer Intern
Film Finder · Barclays Eagle Labs / Sky-backed startup

Shipped on an app with 80+ daily active users — TypeScript → Swift/SwiftUI migration, Firebase integration, third-party APIs, and data pipelines, using Claude Code, Cursor, Jira, and Git.

JAN 2024 — JAN 2026
Developer & Designer
Matek Innovative Solutions

Sole technical owner of the company website for two years; built Claros, an AI-powered parts-identification system, and n8n automation workflows for internal operations.

2023 — 2024
Head of Graphic Design
Voice Your Vichaar

Led visual identity and content strategy for a community platform.

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Projects

Parch

1ST PLACE OVERALL2026
parch-eta.vercel.app ↗

AI procurement employee for startups — researches vendors, trust-checks merchants, defends a recommendation, then completes the purchase through Prava once you approve.

🏆 1st Place Overall — Agentic Commerce Hackathon (400 builders selected from 3,500 applications)
Next.js · TypeScript · Prava SDK · Supabase · Tailwind

Velos

SHIPPED2026
velos-chi.vercel.app ↗

Financial control layer for AI agent spending. Policy engine that approves, denies, or escalates every request, with Stripe Issuing virtual cards, an immutable audit log, and a native MCP server.

Next.js · Clerk · Neon Postgres · Drizzle · Stripe Issuing · MCP

Red Team // Blue Team

HACKATHON2026
github.com/…/red-team-blue-team ↗

Autonomous cyber range — a red agent launches real HTTP exploits against a vulnerable banking API while a blue agent rewrites, hot-reloads, and re-verifies the patched source until the security score climbs from 40 to 96. Runnable via Mission Control UI or MCP inside Cursor / Claude Code.

Cursor Cybersecurity London Hackathon 2026
Node.js · Express · MCP · OpenAI · Supabase · SSE

GroundWire

HACKATHON WINNER2026

Multi-stage AI pipeline turning circuit photos into solved schematics — Gemini Vision to JSON into a TypeScript MNA solver built on Kirchhoff's laws.

🏆 Best Use of Gemini API — SotonHack 2026 (20+ teams)
Gemini Vision · TypeScript · React Flow

Atlas

SYSTEMS2026
github.com/…/atlas ↗

Open-source PaaS built from scratch — pack, build, deploy, HTTPS, rolling updates, logs, and rollback for any Dockerized app with a single CLI command. The core ideas behind Heroku / Railway / Fly, implemented as cooperating services.

Java · Docker · Nginx · React · TypeScript

North Star

TEAM BUILD2026
north-star-ruddy.vercel.app ↗

AI operating system for family caregiving — upload an NHS letter or report, and document / planning / coordination agents turn it into structured tasks, assignments, and a shared care timeline so the whole family stays in sync.

Next.js · TypeScript · OpenAI · Supabase · PDF parse

Internship System

ACTIVE BUILD2026—

Agentic job-hunt pipeline: sweeps company career pages for newly opened roles, tailors a CV to each job description with Claude, renders PDFs through a mechanical validation gate, and logs every application — all driven from a zero-dependency local dashboard.

Claude Code · Node.js · agentic workflows

Hive

SHIPPED2026
sotonhive.tech ↗

University AI event platform, built solo in under three months. RAG semantic search and a vision-based auto-fill pipeline.

🏆 Impact Lab Grant — University of Southampton
Next.js · PostgreSQL · REST · RAG

Claros

SHIPPED2025
claros-neon.vercel.app ↗

AI-powered aftermarket parts identification system, built for Matek Innovative Solutions.

AI vision · React · Express · SQLite · Gemini

Slop Farm

SHIPPED2026
ai-slop-meter.vercel.app ↗

A LinkedIn post grader with a twist — paste your draft and Kevin the pig scores how much of it is AI slop. About twenty regex-based detectors catch clichés, hedge words, and telltale LLM tics; the happier Kevin looks, the worse you've done. No backend, no dependencies, nothing you paste ever leaves the page.

Vanilla JS · HTML/CSS · zero dependencies · client-side only
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Awards

1st Place Overall — Agentic Commerce HackathonBuilt Parch · selected from 3,500 applications and 400 builders · 160+ submissions, 2M+ impressions · $2,000 Visa cash + $3,000 OpenAI credits
Winner — Best Use of Gemini APISotonHack 2026 · 20+ competing teams
Impact Lab GrantUniversity of Southampton · for Hive
Finalist — Masters Union CEO Challenge2024 · pitched to Anupam Mittal (Shark Tank India)
EMEA Strategy Consulting SummitUCL · February 2026 · selected participant
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Skills

Languages

PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaSQLCSwiftBash

AI & Agents

Anthropic APIClaude CodeGemini APIRAGLLM agentsmulti-agent orchestrationMCPn8n

Frontend

ReactNext.jsTailwind CSSSwiftUIPWA

Backend & Data

Node.jsFastAPIExpressWebSocketsPostgreSQLRedisFirebase

Infra & Tools

DockerGitVercelRailwayLinuxFigmaJira