Builder, Founder, Researcher · Based in NJ

Taran Bethi.

I'm a high school junior building software, hardware, and companies. I write the code, design the circuit boards, and run the research behind them, from computer-vision pipelines to live products with real users.

01Work

Things I've built.

Live products, hardware on the bench, and early-stage companies. The first two are where most of my time goes; the rest are shipping or in active development.

More projects

Croft

A drone that uses computer vision to find invasive weeds and spray only the weed, not the field. I build the targeting model.
CV ag drone · 2026

Perch

A Chrome extension that watches a group of tabs and pings you the moment a tracked page actually changes. Filters the noise, stays local.
Browser tool · 2026

Stride

A formation tracker for South Asian competitive dance teams. Maps who stands where across a routine, so teams stop choreographing on memory.
Dance tooling · 2025

CustomsIQ

Automates the slow, error-prone parts of cross-border trade and customs paperwork.
Compliance SaaS · 2025

AXIS

The AI coaching layer inside StraightUP!, turning raw posture sessions into plain-language feedback over an n8n pipeline.
AI coaching · 2026

Sol

The AI guide behind Ask Apto. Answers a student's admissions questions in plain, calm language, with the personality that makes a stressful process feel human.
Conversational AI · 2026
02Experience

Where I've been.

01

FRC Robotics

Member · FIRST Robotics Competition
Compete at the highest level of high school robotics, contributing to mechanical and software systems across the season.
Now
02

FTC Robotics

Member · FIRST Tech Challenge
Build, program, and iterate on competition robots through the FIRST Tech Challenge seasons.
2023 to Now
03

Horizon Academic Research Program

ML Track · 1:1 PhD Lab
Machine learning research modeling how inflammatory bowel disease and ADHD overlap, mentored one-on-one by a PhD researcher.
2026
03Research

Papers in progress.

01

Posture Detection & Haptic Feedback for Pelvic Alignment

StraightUP! · pursuing faculty co-authorship
Built on the StraightUP! device and its clinical trial data, following a summer validation study. Working with university faculty toward submission.
In progress
02

Modeling IBD & ADHD Comorbidity

Horizon Academic · ML Track
Machine learning research on the overlap between inflammatory bowel disease and ADHD, conducted through a 1:1 PhD lab.
In progress
04About

A bit about me.

I'm a junior at West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, graduating June 2027. I co-found and build products that sit between software, hardware, and a real problem, most recently an AI admissions platform and a posture wearable with clinical data behind it.

On the hardware side I design PCBs and the embedded firmware that runs on them. On the software side I take products from an empty repo to something people actually use. I care more about whether a thing works in the world than whether it demos well.

Education
WW-P High School North
Junior · Class of 2027 · Plainsboro, NJ
AP Physics CHonors CalculusAP Physics: MechanicsAP CSAAP CSPPhysics Honors
Stack
Languages
TypeScriptPython
Web & Infra
Next.jsReactTailwindSupabase
AI
PerplexityOpenAIComputer Vision
Hardware
IMUFirmwarePCB / KiCad
Outside of work
SAASA Officer
South Asian American Student Association · WW-P High School North
05Contact

Let's build something.

Open to collaborations, research advising, and the occasional build. Send a short note. I read every email.

taranbethi@gmail.com