Nishanth G Palaniswami
AI Engineer · LLM Agents & Data Pipelines
US work-authorized · F-1 OPT, STEM-OPT eligible
I build systems that have to be right, not just impressive: agentic AI systems, audit-ready data pipelines, and the tests that keep both honest. MS Computer Engineering @ NYU, May 2026 · AI Engineer @ got2eat · previously SWE intern @ SAIL GTX.
Featured work
- Got2eat: AI Engineer (Aug 2026 – present) on a community map of meals under $15, live at got2eat.app. Server-side LLM assistant; GTFS subway + PATH routing; B2B partner dashboard. React 19 · TypeScript · Deno · MapLibre.
- 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.