George Mason University
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Expected June 2028
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Portfolio
Gagan Manjunatha
Computer Science Student
My passion is using Computer Science with practical Engineering to enhance technology for the future.
Contact
Education
Experience
Undergraduate Research Assistant, CREATE Lab
George Mason University,College of Engineering and Computing
May 2026 – Present
- Built Astroswarm, a visual coding game that turns swarm control into a playable simulator, generating trial data at scale on which algorithms best defend a target.
- Researching swarm robotics in Python and ROS for a research program on controlling robot fleets with one operator.
AI Summer Camp Instructor
ACCESS Academy
Jul 2026 – Aug 2026
- Taught the robotics section of an AI camp for 60 rising 9th to 12th graders, guiding teams to build robot kits and design algorithms that autonomously navigated a maze.
Team Lead, RAVC Team
Raytheon Autonomous Vehicle Competition (RAVC)
Dec 2025 – May 2026
1st Place Overall Winner
- Beat four competing universities including Virginia Tech.
- Led development of an autonomous system in Python and ROS2, enabling a UAV to scout and land on a moving UGV in an environment without GPS, validated against ArUco marker detection in Gazebo simulation.
QA Automation Intern
Deltek· Internship · Hybrid
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
- Designed a workflow integrating AI into the QA automation pipeline for the GovWin IQ team.
- Researched Model Context Protocol servers, publishing a public Selenium MCP package to NPM for agentic browser automation.
Skills
- > Languages
- Python · TypeScript/JavaScript · C/C++ · Java · Go · Rust · SQL
- > Frameworks
- React/Next.js · SvelteKit · Node/Express · Flask · Tailwind CSS · ROS2 · Gazebo
- > Tools & Data
- Docker · Git · Linux/Windows Server · PostgreSQL · MySQL · SQLite · MongoDB · Redis
Projects
Self hosted collaborative Typst editor with a Rust backend, SvelteKit frontend, real time multi user editing via Yjs, and a public render API.
Tauri desktop client for TypstDrive that keeps the same documents as local files and syncs them back with a three way merge.
CLI toolkit and utilities (Rust project), a small developer-focused CLI.
OBookLLM is a powerful, self-hosted, offline-capable alternative to NotebookLLM.
Leadership
- Team Lead, GMU RAVC Team
- Secretary, GMU Autonomous Robotics Club (ARC)
- President, GMU Minecraft Club
- Eagle Scout, BSA
- Volunteer, Fairfax County CERT