Arjun K

I build systems that turn messy,
human input into something a
computer can act on.

A tweet, a scanned tax form, a hand sign — trained into signal, shipped as working software. Data Scientist & ML Engineer based in Kozhikode, Kerala.

9+Shipped apps
99.5%Uptime sustained
IEEE '23Published & Best Paper
0.93Price-model R²
01 About

I'm a computer science engineer who kept saying yes to whatever layer of the stack needed attention — training the model, building the API around it, keeping the server it runs on alive.

Before any of the projects on this page: a year keeping a 100+ camera government AI-surveillance network at 99.5% uptime, then three months at Ladder7 shipping four sentiment products end-to-end, scraper to model to dashboard. One of my earlier builds, a real-time sign-language translator, was published at an IEEE conference and won Best Paper at my university's project expo.

I'm based in Kozhikode, Kerala, and I've just wrapped up at Ladder7 — looking for what's next in software engineering, backend, or ML. I'm not fussy about the title. I want to work on something real.

Portrait of Arjun K
Kozhikode, IN
02 Experience
Jun 2026 — Sep 2026
Ladder7 Nextstep Solutions
Kerala · Hybrid
Jun 2026 — Sep 2026 · Ladder7 Nextstep Solutions

AI/ML Intern

  • Independently scoped, built, and deployed 4 end-to-end sentiment-analysis apps and a multi-platform brand-intelligence tool — each shipped as a working web app, not a notebook.
  • Automated data collection with Playwright across 6+ web sources (YouTube, X/Twitter, Google Reviews, Instagram, Reddit), handling dynamic content and pagination, then cleaned and deduplicated with Pandas.
  • Applied a HuggingFace RoBERTa sentiment model (CardiffNLP, Twitter-tuned) consistently across every project, adapting the scraper and dashboard to each platform's data shape.
  • Owned each build end-to-end — scraping, modeling, REST API (FastAPI/Flask), and dashboard.
Jun 2024 — Jun 2025
Keltron
Kozhikode, Kerala
Jun 2024 — Jun 2025 · Keltron

Graduate Apprentice — System Administrator, AI & Data Systems

  • Monitored and maintained 100+ AI-enabled surveillance cameras for the Safe Kerala AI Camera Project (Motor Vehicle Department), sustaining 99.5% uptime through proactive health checks and anomaly detection.
  • Built automated reporting workflows that compiled camera and system data for MVD certification and billing, cutting down manual reporting effort.
  • Administered servers, storage, and network infrastructure for a 24×7 government enforcement control room, coordinating with vendors and the State Central Control Room.
Jun 2022 (15 days)
Stalza Technologies
Kozhikode, Kerala
Jun 2022 (15 days) — Stalza Technologies

WordPress Website Developer Intern

  • Built and deployed a live production WordPress website with custom plugins and performance optimizations, delivered on schedule with positive client feedback.
03 Work

Thirteen shipped repositories. Four are below in full — the rest are grouped by what they have in common.

GSTVision AI

Repo

A 3-tier document-AI system that pulls structured data — GSTIN, invoice values, tax splits — out of scanned GST 2A statements and E-Way Bills, using a triple-OCR pipeline (PaddleOCR + Tesseract + EasyOCR) feeding a fine-tuned LayoutLMv3 model. Shadow correction and auto-straightening handle poor scans and phone photos; an auto-retraining loop learns from every user correction; output lands as a ready-to-use Excel report.

DjangoFastAPIReactPostgreSQLLayoutLMv3
anomaly

TrustLens

Repo

A unit-normalized analytics dashboard that turns platform trust & safety transparency reports (Meta, X, WhatsApp) into anomaly detection with Isolation Forest, per-organization forecasting with 95% confidence bands, and category-level breakdowns. The data-cleaning layer keeps absolute counts and percentage/rate metrics from ever being wrongly summed together, and an offline rule-based Q&A assistant answers questions directly from the filtered dataset.

PythonStreamlitscikit-learnIsolation Forest

Manobhava AI

Repo

Point it at a company website and it auto-discovers the product line, then aggregates customer reviews across five platforms — Google, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit — in parallel. RoBERTa-based sentiment and aspect-level analysis runs on the combined review set, and the tool generates a downloadable PDF report summarizing brand- and product-level sentiment.

PythonFastAPIPlaywrightHuggingFace

Sign Language Translator

Repo

A real-time ASL-to-text/speech system built around a custom CNN trained on 31,000+ hand-gesture images, with MediaPipe handling hand tracking. Published at IEEE ICCCI 2023 and awarded Best Paper at the KARE Project Expo the same year.

TensorFlowOpenCVMediaPipeCNN

The sentiment suite

Four independent apps built on the same pattern — scrape a platform, score it with a Twitter-tuned RoBERTa model, lay it out on a dashboard — each adapted to its source's particular mess.

PulseScope
YouTube comment sentiment, with a curated set of comments worth reading — not a table of everything.
Repo
TweetPulse
Pulls the replies on a tweet, scores each one, and shows what actually drove the reaction.
Repo
StarSense
Automated Google Business review collection with a live, animated dashboard and word cloud.
Repo
MoodRing
A gauge, not a table — paste text (single or batch, up to 200 lines) and read the needle.
Repo

Car Price Prediction

Random Forest regression (R² 0.93, MAE ₹0.45L) estimating used-car resale prices from 7 features, served through a Flask REST API.

Flaskscikit-learn
Repo

Netflix Tudum

A Netflix-style browsing experience built from scratch — auth, watchlist, seeded catalog, live search, Top 10 row.

DjangoPostgreSQL
Repo

Password Manager

Desktop Java Swing app: generate, salt-hash encrypt, store, and retrieve passwords, fully offline. Presented at ICCES 2022.

JavaSwing
Repo

Calculator Neon

A cyberpunk-themed calculator — real-time computation, full keyboard support, glowing animated UI, deployed on Render.

JavaScriptCSS3
Repo

BrowseBrief

Scrapes any webpage with Playwright and generates an AI summary through LangChain + Groq, in one command.

PlaywrightLangChain
Repo
04 Skills
Languages
PythonSQLJavaJavaScript
Machine Learning & AI
scikit-learnTensorFlow / KerasPyTorchHuggingFace TransformersOpenCVMediaPipeCNNsNLP & Sentiment AnalysisLayoutLMv3
Analytics
Anomaly DetectionIsolation ForestRegression & ForecastingPredictive ModelingFeature Engineering
Data, BI & Visualization
PandasNumPyTableauPower BIStreamlitPlotly
Engineering & Deployment
FastAPIFlaskDjangoREST APIsPostgreSQLSQLitePlaywrightGitLinuxRender
05 Recognition
Publications & awards
  • IEEE ICCCI 2023
    "Analyses of Machine Learning Techniques for Sign Language to Text Conversion for Speech Impaired" — published paper
  • Best Paper Award
    KARE Project Expo, April 2023
  • ICCES 2022 International Conference
    Presented "Password Management System for Students"
  • 125-hour Virtual Internship
    Research & Solutions Unit — ICT Academy of Kerala, 2026
Certifications
  • Certified Specialist in Data Science & Analytics
    375 hrs — ICT Academy of Kerala, 2026
  • IBM Data Science Graduate
    IBM, 2023
  • Python for Data Science
    Elite, 67% — NPTEL, IIT Madras, 2025
  • Tableau 2024.1: Essential Training
    LinkedIn Learning, 2025
  • Complete Guide to Apache Kafka for Beginners
    LinkedIn Learning, 2025
Education
  • B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
    Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Tamil Nadu
    2019 – 2023 · CGPA 7.8 / 10 (First Class)
    Data Science specialization curriculum developed in partnership with IBM.
06 Contact

Just wrapped up at Ladder7 —
looking for what's next.

Software engineering, backend, or ML. I'm not fussy about the title — I want to work on something real.