Nishanth G Palaniswami
Software Engineer · AI Applications & Data Pipelines
I build agentic AI systems and audit-ready data pipelines, and the tests that keep them honest. MS Computer Engineering @ NYU, May 2026 · previously SWE intern @ SAIL GTX.
Featured work
- SAIL: Software Engineer Intern (Sep 2025 – May 2026) on a customs tariff & classification platform. US tariff data pipeline; 166 HTS releases (2018–2026); 97% reliability. Python · FastAPI · Supabase.
- Second Brain: Agentic assistant over Gmail/Slack/Calendar/GitHub; 19 regression-tested guardrails, local hybrid RAG. Python · Claude Agent SDK.
- ASL Alphabet Recognition: Co-authored real-time ASL-to-voice pipeline; 99% alphabet-set accuracy per the paper. Published IEEE ICCCNT 2024.
- MetroScan: Engineered a 110M-row NYC subway feed into a 16M-row feature table; delay-proxy models and station clustering. PySpark, Spark MLlib.