David Kahdian

Computer Engineering & Applied Mathematics Student at UCLA

About Me

I'm an undergraduate Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics student at UCLA with a 3.96 GPA, focused on building innovative solutions that make a real impact.

Problem Solver

Full-Stack Developer

Continuous Learner

Featured Projects

Calibration Agent Startup

Co-founding stealth AI operations platform for calibration laboratories, focused on intake, quoting, and scheduling workflows.

Next.jsTypeScriptFastAPIPostgreSQLOpenAI Agents SDK

Healthcare Supply-Chain Startup

Building stealth mobile platform for healthcare organizations to redistribute surplus medical supplies, with early prospective user demos.

React NativeTypeScriptExpoReduxReact Native Paper
BruinPlan

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BruinPlan

Web+mobile application enabling UCLA quarterly planning & prerequisite tracking for 500+ students with 14,000+ courses and 130+ majors.

SvelteTypeScriptPuppeteerCytoscape.jsPythonGemini API

Recent Experience

AI Researcher

UCLA StarAI Lab

Los Angeles, CA

Sept 2025 - Present
  • Building production web platform for AI researchers to explore 20 years of Knowledge Compilation research (public demo: kcm.kahdian.com)
  • Partnering with PhD researchers to design features based on real user feedback
  • Engineered algorithms eliminating 90% of manual data entry and 99% of human-generated errors
TypeScriptSvelteKitAWSGitHub Actions

Software Engineering Intern

UCLA Garrick Institute for Risk Sciences

Los Angeles, CA

June 2025 - Sept 2025
  • Saved 100+ hours of recurring data entry tasks by scripting conversion of 4 proprietary data types
  • Validated and processed 5,000+ risk event datasets for Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (provides 23% of California's clean energy)
  • Collaborated with a cross-functional team of 5 engineers on a 100,000+ line production codebase
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