Sangita Kunapuli

Fullstack Software Developer

Recent Computer Science Master’s graduate from UCSB, based in the Bay Area. I am passionate about designing intuitive user experiences and writing quality code with impact.

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Work Experience

UC Santa Barbara

Teaching Assistant

Sept 2023 — Jun 2025

Lead course 3x/week for software engineering legacy project class of 96 students and mentor student teams on large scale legacy applications in Java/Spring Boot + React, over 6 quarters of the course.
Address debugging queries, grade programming assignments, and conduct code reviews of novel feature implementations to support students’ understanding of software development and Git.

UC Santa Barbara

Software Engineering Researcher

Jan 2025 — Mar 2025

Analyze Git commit data across course iterations with Python to understand and improve student usage of Agile methodologies, doubling productivity and influencing software best practices in project codebases.
Maintain 4 Java/Spring Boot + React repositories with Github Actions, software design documentation, backlogs, and code reviews, reinforcing collaboration and code quality in legacy applications.

Dropbox

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2023 — Sept 2023

Build and optimize full-stack File Requests feature using Python + React/Typescript, enabling scalable, cross platform file upload with email attachments.
Improve collaboration workflows for 5+ enterprise teams and thousands of users, shipping and strengthening production infrastructure and responding to user needs

UC Santa Barbara

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2022 — Aug 2022

Develop REST API services powering full-stack React web application used by 150+ students, simulating limitations on environmental resources in the real world
Integrate automated testing and CI/CD pipelines within 3 repositories, ensuring 100% test coverage and accelerating developer iteration cycles

Featured Projects

Object Recall in Augmented Reality

AR immersive office environment with Magic Leap 2 and HCI user study.

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Unity
C#
R
Research

Spatially AwARe

Mobile AR navigation app to improve spatial awareness through gamified interface.

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React Native
Xcode
ARKit

Chess AI Mate

Figma high fidelity design of explainable AI tool to learn chess.

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Figma
UI/UX
AI

ChatGPT as a Code Repair Tool

Quantitative experiment with prompt engineering on GPT model to determine code-repair ability.

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Python
AI
C++
Research

Gaucho Grub

UI/UX design of mobile app to interact with UCSB dining hall info.

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Figma
UI/UX
Mobile

Fridge Master

Mobile app developed with Flutter to track groceries and suggest recipes.

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Flutter
UI/UX
Mobile

Where's the Bear?

Machine learning classification project to build cloud computing filtration pipeline for camera traps & scientists.

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Python
Tensorflow
PostgreSQL

About Me

Hi there, I’m Sangita! I just completed my Master's in Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I am an aspiring software engineer with a passion for building web applications and designing intuitive user experiences. With experience in developing for applications of AR and industry/research experience in software engineering, I always enjoy tackling complex problems to improve user experiences and leverage human-AI interaction. When I’m not coding or designing, you can find me at the gym, trying out a new recipe I found on Instagram, or bullet journaling!