Adithya Somasundaram

1 (408) 480-4591 ยท asomasundaram18@gmail.com

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

Bachelor of Science
Computer Science
September 2016 - June 2020

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Additional:
  • C/C++
  • Google Firebase
  • Flutter
  • SQL
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Vue.js
  • Agile Development & Scrum

Experience

Junior Software Engineer

Paper Education

Readlee acquired by Paper in December 2022! Initially worked to integrate Readlee (now Paper Reading) into broader Paper platform. Then worked on building out features in Vue.js to thousands of Paper users nationwide.

December 2022 - September 2023

Junior Software Developer

Read Aloud Productions

Working to build Readlee web application, allowing teachers and students to assign/complete reading and comprehension assignments remotely. Originally written in Flutter with a Firebase backend. Migrated to React frontend with a Ruby on Rails backend. Helped scale user base from a few dozen to over 140k before company acquisition.

September 2020 - December 2022

Production Assistant

UCSC Online Education Initiatives

Assisted in making videos for online-only classes at UCSC using Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, and Final Cut Pro. Also did minor debugging for instructor's Canvas API.

January 2019 - October 2020

Software Engineering Intern

TicketDM

Worked on safe meetup of feature for TicketDM: a ticket exhange app focused on bringing the music festival community closer together. Worked on both iOS and Android platforms.

June 2019 - September 2019

Projects

Bike Repair!

Repairing old, rusted Shimano Claris. Replaced cabling, inner tubes and chain. Restored cassette, handlebars and frame.

Ultimate Memory Accelerator (U.M.A)

Personal research project. Web application containing games designed to test/improve cognitive ability. User can create account to track progress and customize image game. Firebase used for account data and image storage.

React (HTML, JSX, CSS), Firebase

Dungeon! 1.0

Terminal game where user must navigate through dungeon and avoid enemies to reach the end.

C++

Secret Santa

React app that takes in list of players and corresponding phone numbers, and sends a text message to each player with their assigned person for secret santa. Personal server file needed to send text messages with Twilio account.

React (HTML, JSX, CSS), Node.js, Twilio

Array Algorithm Displayer

Displays sorting algorithms for inputted array in step by step process in terminal and outputs files with more in depth explanation of each sorting algorithm.

C++

Fantasy Football Projections

Webscrapes from NFL, Yahoo, and ESPN databases to give user fantasy football projections and data for a given player and week.

Python: Beautiful Soup, Tkinter

Remaining Grade Calculator

Takes in user input for grades in class as well as weights of grades, and outputs grades needed to be received in remaining percentage of class to receive every possible grade. Available in C++ as well.

Java