Cody Kandarian
HI, I'M CODY

I like building useful things.

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Where I've worked.

Summer 2026
Incoming

Software Engineering Intern

SpaceX · Test Reliability McGregor, TX

Joining the team responsible for the reliability of engine test infrastructure. [ Placeholder — add specifics after start. ]

AerospaceReliabilityPythonReal-time systems
2024 — 2025

Software Engineering Co-op

Keysight Technologies Hybrid

Built data pipelines across AWS Kinesis → Redshift → Aurora for streaming test data; wrote Lambda handlers and CDK stacks shipping to production. Owned a dashboarding stack on top of Athena so engineers stopped opening notebooks for ad-hoc queries.

AWS CDKLambdaKinesisRedshiftAuroraAthenaPython
2024 — present

Undergraduate Researcher

Baylor SMART Hub · Dynamic Spectrum Access Waco, TX

Research on DSA for military radar: SAS/CBRS protocol simulation, incumbent-first scheduling, and measurement of false-vacate rates under synthetic load. Advised by [ faculty — replace ].

RFCBRS / SASMATLABPythonSimulation
2024 — present

Co-founder

Entry AI-powered networking

Co-founded and contribute to the data/ML stack.

Next.jsEmbeddingsAWS
2023 — present

Student Ambassador

Baylor School of Engineering & Computer Science

Represent ECS for prospective students and their families. Tours, panels, and admissions events.

LeadershipOutreach

Selected work.

01 · FLAGSHIP · HACKATHON

Zo

A 24/7 multilingual AI livestream-shopping seller, run end-to-end by Gemma 4 on Cactus.

Built at the Cactus × Google DeepMind × YC Gemma 4 Voice Agents Hackathon (April 2026). Gemma 4 E4B on-device handles five jobs — product vision, pitch generation, comment classification, voice-intent parsing, and Whisper transcription — driving a three-tier library of pre-rendered MP4 clips stitched live. Only ~10% of novel responses get a Wav2Lip lip-sync overlay on a RunPod 5090. ~$144/mo per seller vs. ~$9,628/mo cloud equivalent.

Gemma 4PythonTypeScriptFastAPIReactiOSWav2Lip
GitHub →README →
02 · TRADING

OllamaFun — MES Trading Assistant

AI day-trading assistant for MES futures with a 7-step risk engine and local-LLM coaching.

Live 5-sec IB bars via ib_async → DuckDB OHLCV. VWAP + Bollinger + Keltner + RSI mean-reversion gated by ADX regime. Optuna TPE walk-forward, no-look-ahead backtester, Mistral-7B via Ollama for per-trade coaching.

PythonStreamlitDuckDBOllamaIBKR
GitHub →
03 · FULL-STACK

AI Stock Sentiment Tracker

Watchlist that reads headlines with LLMs and calls Buy / Hold / Sell.

React 19 + Vite + Tailwind v4 + TanStack Query + Recharts; Express 5 + Mongoose backend. Aggregates 15+ financial feeds, scores with OpenAI or local Ollama, overlays on Alpha Vantage charts.

TypeScriptReact 19ExpressMongoDB
GitHub →
04 · DATA VIZ

Sleep & Success

Scrollytelling data-viz essay on sleep vs. freshman-year GPA across three universities.

Quarto + Closeread long-form narrative with layered encodings — color by university, size by bedtime variability, faceted small-multiples, and interactive x-axis dropdown. Includes an explicit alternatives-considered retro.

QuartoPlotlyClosereadJS
GitHub →
$ spacex-news --build
scraping 7 sources · 42 headlines
dedupe → 18 · Claude synthesize
deploy → gh-pages ✓
10:00 UTC · daily
05 · AUTOMATION

SpaceX Daily News Digest

AI-synthesized daily SpaceX briefing, auto-deployed every morning.

Parallel RSS + HTML + Nitter scraper dedupes across SpaceNews, NASASpaceflight, Teslarati, Ars, Space.com, The Verge, and @SpaceX / @elonmusk. Claude writes the brief, Jinja2 renders, GitHub Actions deploys at 10:00 UTC.

PythonClaude APIGitHub Actions
Live ↗
├─ packages/api
├─ packages/frontend-new
├─ packages/entry-landing
├─ packages/browser-ext
├─ packages/ai-service
└─ packages/figma-mcp
06 · MONOREPO · WIP

Entry Platform

Multi-workspace platform: API, dashboard, extension, AI service, Figma MCP.

npm workspaces monorepo combining an API, Next.js frontend, a browser extension, an AI service, a Figma MCP server for design-to-code, and shared TS packages.

TypeScriptNext.jsMCPMonorepo
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