Aug 2024 – May 2026
MS in Computer Science
University of Southern California · Los Angeles · GPA 3.63
Rajat Savdekar
Software engineer in Los Angeles ·
I write software. Right now that is Mediverse, a surgical trainer on Meta Quest, at Easley-Dunn Productions in Torrance. I am in the MS Computer Science program at USC. From 2022 to 2024 I worked on an ERP for a fruit-sales cooperative in Jalgaon, India.
I can start now. F-1 OPT, STEM-eligible through May 2029.
School
Aug 2019 – May 2023
Work
Aug 2026 – now
Software Developer, Easley-Dunn Productions
Torrance, CA · Mediverse
A surgical trainer for Meta Quest. Session replay went from 22 minutes to 15 seconds. Frame-time spikes in the simulation dropped 30%. The on-device model fits in under 4 GB of RAM.
May 2025 – Jul 2025
Teaching Assistant, USC Summer Programs
Los Angeles, CA
Python, Git, debugging, and REST for 150 students. I reviewed code for 20 teams taking a spec through to a hardware demo.
May 2023 – May 2024
Software Engineer II, Jalgaon Fruit Sales Cooperative
Jalgaon, India · AgriTech supply-chain ERP
I split a PHP monolith into Flask services on PostgreSQL. Peak harvest writes doubled, and query latency dropped 40%. Search over 150k procurement records went from 3 minutes to under 20 seconds. The services run in Docker on AWS, and I demoed the work to the people using it.
Jan 2022 – May 2023
Software Engineer I, Jalgaon Fruit Sales Cooperative
Jalgaon, India
I built the weighbridge payout APIs in Flask, and reconciliation workers in Celery and Redis that settle bank statements against the ledger. Slow-query latency on the harvest ledgers dropped 35%.
Jul 2021 – Dec 2021
Software Engineering Intern, Softaid Computers
Jalgaon, India
Shift scheduling and multi-branch ledgers for the attendance and accounts modules. Administrative reporting lag dropped 65%.
Projects
CelestiaVR
Quest 3 sky for a USC team. About 9,000 stars, first place at RealityShift.
Aura
On-device captions and sound awareness for Vision Pro. Second place at LA Tech Week.
MockPad
Shared interview pad on one Yjs document per room. 100+ people have used it.
Headcount & Vouch
Two phone agents. Voicemail is not a person reached, and Vouch will not dial without consent.
Stitch
A CI failure comes in and a patch pull request goes out. OpenAI Build Week.
EmojiCode
Five-emoji ciphers posted on Reddit and guessed in the comments.
AfterImage
Co-op puzzle game. Round 2 replays round 1 as a ghost.
SplitIt
Group expenses, splits, and settle-up. React and Express.
TrojanMind
A calendar goes in. Burnout risk and a 7-day plan come out.
Creator Lab
Manim, Remotion, Godot, and a few other tools for explainers.
F1
Scroll is the playhead on a lap. A GSAP lab piece.
Iron Man
A HUD tied to scroll. The other piece from the same lab.
Mediverse
The Quest surgical trainer from the job above. Replay, frame time, and the on-device model.
Caliberate
Hidden tests score LLM patches. The judge is checked against my labels first. In progress.
MARA
A planner, a scraper, and a synthesis agent write a research dossier.
Updated October 2026. One HTML file, one stylesheet, one script.