Tarun Eswar

CS + Math at WashU

Massachusetts, USA

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About

Hi, I’m Tarun, a current student at Washington University in St. Louis studying computer science and mathematics. I work primarily on backend architectures and distributed systems, with recent experience in distributed caching, event-driven services, and agent-orchestrated CI pipelines.

Education

Washington University in St. Louis

May 2028
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Mathematics
GPA: 3.94 / 4.0
Relevant coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Analysis of Algorithms, Systems Software, Programming Systems & Languages, Parallel & Concurrent Programming, Cloud Computing & Big Data, Object-Oriented C++ Software Development, Linear Algebra, Discrete Mathematics

Work Experience

Rivian
Irvine, CA

May 2026 - Aug 2026

Software Engineering Intern

Agent-Orchestrating CI + Event-Driven Notifications on an Internal Service-Management Platform (React / Fastify / Postgres)

Stoke Space
Seattle, WA

Jan 2026 - Apr 2026

Software Engineering Intern

Distributed Caching (ElastiCache / Redis) + Query Optimization on Boltline's GraphQL Services

Fresenius Medical Care
Lexington, MA

May 2025 - Aug 2025

Software Engineering Intern

CrowdStrike KPI Automations (Flask + Go CLI), LiteLLM on AWS EKS, and a ServiceNow MCP Server

Rakuten 6th Sense
Remote

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Software Engineering Intern

LLM-Powered QA Chatbot + B2B AIOps UI Features

Additional Experience

Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO

Aug 2025 - present

Teaching Assistant

Teaching assistant for CSE 361 (Introduction to Systems Software), CSE 332 (Object-Oriented Software Development Lab), and CSE 132 (Introduction to Computer Engineering).

Staples
Shrewsbury, MA

Oct 2023 - Aug 2024

Retail Associate

Trained and worked at the Shrewsbury location as a cashier aimed at improving the customer experience. Served as a janitor, re-stocker for freight, and more in addition to cashiering.

Projects

Gear-labels indicate production-grade applications for clients.

SimplTutor

Management platform sold to a tutoring company to automate billing for 15 staff and 150+ students

Supabase
ExpressJS
ReactJS
Redux
NodeJS
Stripe
ShadCN
Socket.io
+more

InternX Careers

Kickstarting careers through ai-driven application recommendations

Firebase
ExpressJS
ReactJS
NodeJS
Ant-Design

MAMS SISO

Digital sign-in/out system used by 100+ students; first student-built app adopted by WPI (access restricted)

ReactJS
NodeJS
ExpressJS
MySQL
Raspberry Pi
Firebase
+ more

WPI Roadmap

Academic advising app, 2024 GoatHacks winner (1st of 50+ teams), used by 50+ students

Firebase
ExpressJS
ReactJS
NodeJS
Ant-Design

WashU Course Planner

Helping students plan their WashU academic journey

ReactJS
NodeJS
ExpressJS
Prisma
MUI

MFLogP - Dynamics Lab

An interactive way to use the Molecular Formula-LogP model

Python
Flask
OpenCV
Chemparse

Modeling TRS MRI

A deep learning model to predict OCD from fMRI scans

Python
Tensorflow
ResNet
OpenCV
GradCam
Flask

Recent Honors & Awards

WashU Meta x 8VC Hackathon Winner

Worked with a team of 4 to create intern-x, which helps interns find and apply for job opportunities using ai-driven technology.

WPI GoatHacks Competition Winner

Collaborated with a team of 4 and won the 2024 WPI GoatHacks Hackathon. Created the WPI Roadmap app to help students plan their academic success at WPI.

Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards

Placed in the top 0.05% of poetry entries. Published piece and recognized as a national gold medalist / NSPP semifinalist nominee. Invited to the 100th Ceremony at Carnegie Hall.

Certificates

Japanese Language Proficiency Test N5

Basic Japanese Language Proficiency

The Japan Foundation

The Seal of Biliteracy in Japanese & English

Awarded for proficiency in Japanese and English

The State of Massachusetts

Skills

Python
Java
C/C++
Go
PHP
JavaScript/TypeScript
Dart
SQL
React.js
Next.js
Vue.js
Node.js
React Native
Flutter
Django
FastAPI
Flask
Express.js
Spring Boot
Electron
GraphQL
REST APIs
Redux
Socket.io
TensorFlow
NumPy
Scikit-learn
Llama Stack
Tailwind CSS / ShadCN
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MongoDB
Redis
ElastiCache
Prisma
Supabase
Firebase Firestore
Docker
Kubernetes
Pulumi (IaC)
Linux
Bash
Git
Jenkins
Postman
Datadog
AWS (EKS / ECR / Aurora / ElastiCache)
Azure DevOps
Google Cloud