Tanishq Kancharla

Tanishq Kancharla

Software engineer in San Francisco, He/him

Hey! I'm Tanishq, a fullstack developer. I'm experienced in React, Typescript, and Node.JS, and I'm primarily interested in developer tools, tools for creatives, and tools for the public good.

Contact

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Education

2017 — Now
Bachelor of Science in Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

At CMU, I majored in Physics with an additional major in Computer Science.

Work Experience

2021 — 2022
Full-stack Developer at Stealth Startup

Working with Chet Corcos from Notion on an Electron productivity app with React, Typescript, and a local database engine.

2021 — 2021
Remote

Built the replica page (replica.bit.io) and mobile landing page (bit.io) in Tailwind and React. Also worked on rebuilding the main dashboard in Tailwind, React, and Zustand.

2020 — 2020
🎥 Software Engineering Intern at ASML
Remote

As a data scientist/software engineering intern at ASML, I worked with another intern to create a Tensorflow model to automate a tedious human process in their workflow. Our project saved nearly 1000 man-hours per year for engineers.

2019 — 2019
🦖 Data Science Intern at Fortive
Pittsburgh, PA

As a data science intern at Fortive, I worked on various projects with Fortive's operating companies. The projects mostly involved understanding and cleaning data, realizing key insights and creating visualizations, and communicating strategies for companies. Additionally, I developed comprehensive educational Python resources for corporate leaders who wanted to perform their own analyses.

Projects

2020
🦋 Object Detection at ASML

At ASML, my keystone project was an object detection program using Tensorflow. It detects imperfections in semiconductor wafers, replacing a time-consuming process for ASML and saving over a thousand man-hours every year.

2019
🐛 Fuzzy String Interpreter at Fortive

At Fortive, my keystone project used artificial intelligence to parse and aggregate data about human written inputs.

Side Projects

2022
Teg

Tiny declarative parser combinator toolkit written in Typescript, for the browser or server.

2021
Gem

Gem is a light-weight, performant, and minimal editor designed to be aesthetic and fun. It's built with Prosemirror, and open source.

2021

My personal website, built in Next.js. I use a custom-built parser for a markdown-like DSL that I use for my blog posts.

2020

The NASA Web API is a simple program created by me on my website designed to let the user search the NASA media database, learn more about them, and favorite media they like in an intuitive, easy-to-use interface. This project was done as a submission to the Capital One Software Engineering Summit.

2020

Notion slides is a Google Chrome extension that allows users to navigate Notion databases in a slide show.