Arda Tas

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Heyy!! I'm Arda, a CS student at TUM in my 3rd semester and currently a research assistant at TUM AIS.

Most of my spare time goes into building stuff (like this website 😝)

Based in Munich.

Research, engineering, and community work.

AIS

Research Assistant

Present

Institute of Automation and Information Systems · Munich

I build AI systems with context-aware LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and ontologies.

IT Intern

06/2022 - 07/2022

Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity · Bremen

Linux development environments and HPC-backed analysis for drop-tower experiments.

Member and Hackathon Organizer

05/2026 - present

Munich

Web3 events and organization of the TUM Blockchain Hackathon 2026.

AI workflows, industrial data tools, and interactive projects.

AI-assisted résumé builder that turns existing résumés into tailored applications with LaTeX-quality PDF output.

Sisyphus AI assistant, job-specific tailoring, form and LaTeX editing, customizable layouts, autosave, and PDF export.
Tech stack: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Gemini, Supabase/PostgreSQL, Stripe, Docker, LuaLaTeX.

Full-stack job platform with AI-assisted application workflows

Built Gemini-based form mapping and cover-letter drafting across a TypeScript browser extension, React frontend, and Spring Boot backend.
Added structured-output validation, evidence checks, and review steps for uncertain or sensitive fields. Users stay in control of form submission.
Wrote Playwright end-to-end tests for browser workflows and failure cases, plus backend integration and security tests.

A ChatGPT-facing MCP proxy for the CHECK24 GenDev scholarship task

Built a TypeScript and Node.js proxy that combines four mock product services into one MCP endpoint, with namespaced tools and schema validation.
Added conformance checks, scoped QA endpoints, and a dashboard for tool errors and call traces.