fig. 1 — me, from one photo · 42,000 pts
I build software that learns, sees and ships — from evolved race-car drivers to underwater 3D vision.
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Things I've shipped
01 / 04 — Personal
Racing Generations
Live demo — it’s running →Neural-network drivers that teach themselves to race — from a 2D sim to full 3D TORCS.
- 90%
- Held-out tracks finished
- 46.9s
- TORCS lap, gen 157
- 100
- Cars per generation
02 / 04 — Personal
TanayOS
Live demo — it’s running →My personal AI command center — one chat box that routes to coding agents, local models and my calendar.
- 373
- Tests
- 9
- Integrations
- 53k
- Lines of code
03 / 04 — Club · Purdue IEEE ROV
ROV Vision
Live demo — it’s running →Turning underwater photos into 3D models you can measure — for Purdue's competition robot.
- 92.6%
- Detection accuracy
- −18%
- Depth error
04 / 04 — Company
Pantheon
Site tour — playing →Competitive extracurricular programs for K-12 schools — debate, DECA, Model UN and more. I'm the CTO.
How it works→Also
- 05Paper TraderA backtesting lab built to catch itself overfitting — evolved strategies, strict train/test splits, lookahead audits.
- 06Autonomous MotorsportsSynthetic data and semantic segmentation for an autonomous race car.
- 07Engine Data SynthesizerA physics-based GAN that generates realistic aircraft-engine data for remaining-useful-life models.
- 08Solar ScorePredicts how well solar panels would work on a given house.
- Studying
- B.S. Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science
- Minor
- Business Economics
- Graduating
- May 2028
- GPA
- 3.73
Hi, I'm Tanay.
I'm a junior at Purdue studying Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, with a minor in Business Economics. This summer I was a software engineering intern at Apple, working on AI video generation for an internal platform with 200K+ users.
Outside class I'm the Vice President of Purdue IEEE ROV, where I work on the vision stack for our underwater robot, and the CTO of Pantheon, which runs competitive extracurricular programs for K-12 schools.
I'm from Fremont, CA. I'm happiest when a project has a number I can push — accuracy, lap time, latency — and a demo I can show someone.
Experience
- Summer 2026
Apple — Software Engineer Intern
Sunnyvale, CA
- Built and productionized scalable AI video generation, making end-to-end workflows 4× faster on an internal platform serving 200K+ users.
- Integrated 15+ HeyGen APIs and 20 generation controls across avatars, voices, rendering and video quality.
- Worked with HeyGen to define Apple's API requirements — evaluated 12 capabilities and helped shape their roadmap.
- 2024 — Now
Pantheon — Chief Technology Officer
pantheonprep.com
- Lead the technical side of a company that runs debate, DECA, FBLA, Model UN, Science Olympiad and chess programs for K-12 schools.
- Own the web platform end to end and the AI-powered learning tools built on it.
- 2024 — Now
Purdue IEEE ROV — Vice President + Software Engineer
West Lafayette, IN
- Built a real-time underwater object detection pipeline reaching 92.6% accuracy with OpenCV and TensorFlow.
- Engineered a stereo vision algorithm that cut depth-estimation error by 18%, turning depth maps into 3D point clouds with Open3D.
- Created a 360° photosphere stitching method for immersive underwater visualizations.
- 2025 — 2026
R&D Venture Studio — Software Engineer
Remote
- Built an end-to-end e-commerce automation platform on Supabase, containerized services and third-party APIs.
- Implemented order orchestration: inventory sync, supplier selection and delivery tracking, with analytics on every stage.
- Summer 2025
Boundary RSS — Software Engineer Intern
Remote
- Trained CNNs on 5TB+ of seismic data to detect hydrocarbon boundaries, raising detection accuracy by 23%.
- Applied 3D viscoelastic modeling and Kirchhoff migration, speeding up depth conversion by 38.8%.
Toolbox
- Languages
- Python · TypeScript · Java · C / C++ · C# · SQL · R · MATLAB
- AI & Data
- PyTorch · TensorFlow · OpenCV · scikit-learn · NumPy · pandas · RAG · Multi-agent systems
- Systems
- React · Next.js · Node · FastAPI · Spring Boot · AWS · Supabase · Docker · Unity
Let's build
something.
Looking for Summer 2027 internships. Email is the fastest way to reach me.