Arta Ghasemi · Engineering

I build practical products and the launch loops around them.

CS @ Penn State, graduating Dec 2027. Shipped a native iOS app to the App Store and built a production RAG chatbot as a full-stack intern at Akadion. Currently building Test Maxer, handframe.app, and Rushline — and I don't hand off at the API boundary. I do the design, the copy, the tests, and the launch.

Founder Signals

CS GPA

3.74

Penn State Computer Science, Dean's List, while shipping products and client work.

first Swift app

3-4 mo

Learned, built, and shipped Test Maxer end-to-end.

downloads

450+

Combined App Store installs across two shipped consumer apps.

faster support

60%

Response-time cut from the RAG chatbot I owned at Akadion.

Selected Work

• Buff Kitty

  Founder & iOS engineer · on the App Store

  Protein tracker for people who hate calorie apps

  Native iOS protein tracker with manual, voice, AI-photo, and barcode logging, built around a mascot that reacts to how close you are to your daily goal. I designed it, built it, tested it, shipped it, and ran the marketing. Backend is Deno/TypeScript edge functions calling Gemini and OpenAI behind strict JSON schemas, with RevenueCat entitlement checks, atomic rate limits, and row-level security.

  Outcome

  250+ App Store downloads. 54 Swift Testing unit tests, 5 XCTest UI/performance tests, and 43 product events instrumented across onboarding, logging, goals, and conversion.

  Stack

  Swift · SwiftUI · SwiftData · WidgetKit · Supabase · Postgres · RevenueCat

• Test Maxer

  Personal iOS product · validation

  Men's health optimization iOS app

  Built and shipped a consumer app for men interested in natural testosterone optimization. Includes AI-powered face scanning, habit tracking, personalized action plans, and a scoring loop.

  Outcome

  200+ downloads, 60 short-form launch posts, first annual subscriber, and an active user-feedback sprint before the next product decision.

  Stack

  Swift · iOS · AI vision API · App Store

• handframe.app

  Personal product · shipping

  Paywalled file delivery for freelancers

  Platform for freelancers to create a paywalled download link for final files. Clients pay before accessing the video or asset, reducing late payment and post-download ghosting.

  Outcome

  Stripe Connect onboarding, webhooks, tokenized downloads with expiry and download caps, plan tiers, platform-fee logic, rate limiting, and payment reconciliation.

  Stack

  Next.js · TypeScript · Postgres · Stripe Checkout · Stripe Connect

• AI support chatbot

  Akadion · SWE internship, 2025

  RAG over a company's own support corpus

  Owned an internal support chatbot from concept through deployment. Python/FastAPI backend, Next.js/React frontend, and a Gemini-powered retrieval-augmented generation pipeline. Added real-time response streaming, background file ingestion, and a layered REST architecture so retrieval, generation, and transport could change independently.

  Outcome

  Cut customer-support response time 60%. Reached 95% answer accuracy in internal evaluation.

  Stack

  Python · FastAPI · Next.js · React · Gemini API · REST

• Rushline

  Personal product · advanced local prototype

  A Premiere Pro assistant that edits inside the timeline

  Turns timeline selections, transcripts, and typed phrases into finished captions, motion text, reframes, and effects without leaving Premiere. Nine automation workflows. Most AI video tools hand back a black-box render; Rushline outputs editable MOGRT clips and native Motion values, so the editor keeps control after the automation runs.

  Outcome

  Runs on real client work daily — podcast clipping and short-form delivery. Local-first: nothing leaves the machine.

  Stack

  UXP · Node.js · CEP/ExtendScript · MOGRT · Local LLM

• Validation sprintDirect outreach to Test Maxer users before the next build decision.
• Course SchedulerJava/SQL enrollment system — seat capacity, waitlists, automatic promotion.
• Build logShort dev notes on AI tooling and evals.

Stack

Languages

Swift · Python · Java · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQL

Frameworks

SwiftUI · SwiftData · WidgetKit · FastAPI · Next.js · React · Node.js · Deno

Infra

Postgres · Supabase · Stripe · RevenueCat · Gemini API · REST

Testing

Swift Testing · XCTest · PostHog · Git/GitHub · Xcode

Experience

1. Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern

   Akadion — remote

   Jun — Aug 2025
   • Owned an AI support chatbot from concept through deployment, cutting customer-support response time 60%.
   • Built a Python/FastAPI backend and Next.js/React frontend with a Gemini-powered RAG pipeline that hit 95% answer accuracy in internal evaluation.
   • Added real-time response streaming, background file ingestion, and a layered REST API architecture.

   Python · FastAPI · Next.js · React · Gemini API

2. Editing Lead

   Student Videography Association — Penn State

   Dec 2024 — Present
   • Lead and mentor 5+ editors across high-priority Penn State media projects.
   • Redesigned the post-production workflow after tracing recurring delivery bottlenecks to handoff, not editing speed.

   Premiere Pro · After Effects · DaVinci Resolve

3. B.S. Computer Science

   Penn State — University Park

   Expected Dec 2027
   • 3.74 GPA · Dean's List, while building products and running freelance video work.
   • Coursework in data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, systems, and linear algebra.

   Java · Python · C

Writing

• Notes on shipping Test MaxerDraft
• What a real RAG eval loop looks likeDraft
• Small models, real productsDraft