Software Engineering senior @ UT Arlington · graduating Dec 2026 · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
name: Samarth Jagtap
role: software engineering senior · product brain · occasional dj
based_in: Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
minor: Commercial Filmmaking (yes, really)| Project | What it does | The number I'm proud of |
|---|---|---|
| Legacy app rescue · LapentON | Migrated 2 ancient HTML/PHP apps to a modern stack with LLM-assisted refactoring | Estimated 6 months → 4 weeks |
| MCP agent platform · LapentON | AI agents with scoped tools, approval workflows, audit logs, and rollback, deployed into a live Odoo environment | 0 unreviewed writes to production |
| UTA Datathon platform | Registration, QR check-in, and analytics on Firebase | Check-in: ~60s → 10s for 400+ people |
| QuickDrop | Session-based secure file transfer, built twice (GCP and AWS) because why not | 500 MB in ~50s, load-tested to 2,000 concurrent users |
| Map Daddy | Projection mapping on a Raspberry Pi, controlled from a web UI | Boot to projection-ready in under 10s |
| IGVC autonomous vehicle | OpenCV + YOLO + LiDAR perception for a self-driving ground vehicle | 95% obstacle avoidance over 20+ runs, 0 pedestrians harmed |
students taught robotics ............... 500+
students TA'd (ENGR 1101) .............. ~400 per semester
assignments auto-graded ................ 400 in under 4 minutes
student orgs founded ................... 2 (one AI club, one dance team)
members recruited from zero ............ 500+ (SCAI)
sponsorship dollars raised ............. $12,500 (Datathon UTA)
budget managed ......................... $13,000 (Engineers Week, ~6,000 students)
AI agents on my personal dev team ...... 16
helicopters landed on campus ........... 1 (Bell, Engineers Week, long story)
legacy PHP apps laid to rest ........... 2
- 🔧 Software / AI intern at LapentON, building internal tools and agentic systems
- 🎓 Finishing a BS in Software Engineering at UTA (Dec 2026)
- 🤖 Obsessing over agent guardrails and MCP tooling
- 💃 Recovering from founding a Bollywood fusion dance team
Claude Code · MCP · YOLO · Airflow · Playwright · k6 · Notion API
Certs: PSPO I · AWS Academy Cloud Architecting · AWS Cloud Security Builder · AWS Microservices & CI/CD · AWS Cloud Data Pipeline Builder
New-grad Forward Deployed Engineer or Solutions Engineer roles starting early 2027. Also happy to talk Sales Engineering, APM, and TPM.
If your job involves embedding with a customer, building inside their messy real environment, and then explaining what you did to someone who doesn't write code, I have been training for this since freshman year without realizing it.
Why is your username "thatscrazzyy"?
The story is better in person. Recruiters, I promise the code is more professional than the handle.
Wait, a filmmaking minor?
Yes. Turns out "tell a clear story to an audience that has other things to do" is exactly what a product demo is. Also, my pitch decks look great.
What's the helicopter story?
For Engineers Week we brought Bell Helicopter to campus. That involved a live helicopter landing. On a university. It required more stakeholder alignment than any software project I have ever touched.
"Match the guard to the blast radius"?
My rule for AI agents: treat each one as capable but untrusted. Scope permissions to the risk of the action, not the ability of the model. A read-only lookup and a bulk delete should never share a permission model.
Is 3 months really 28 months?
Sometimes. I ran the COCOMO II numbers on how a "3-month project" becomes a 28-month, $3.37M project. Read the write-up before your next sprint planning.
Built with too much coffee and a healthy fear of blanket permissions.