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hey, I'm Tanishq.

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I turn complex algorithms into clean, people-first, impact-driven products, chasing whatever's next in tech.

At the crossroads of Quantum Computing, Software Development and Artificial Intelligence, I find my passion and purpose. Join me as I navigate the tech frontier and innovate for tomorrow.

01 / About

Great software, like great images, is a perfect balance between light, space & story.

I'm a Chancellor's Award Scholar at UMass Amherst who tries to turn complex algorithms into clean, people-first, impact-driven products with Python, TypeScript/React, C and Swift.

I've shipped customer-facing features as an intern at SolarWinds, built five AI apps in five weeks at Headstarter, mentored 30+ peers as an Undergraduate TA, and maintain GitProfAlyzer, an open-source dashboard that turns raw GitHub activity into insights across 400+ repos, all while chasing the next innovation where technology can move the needle for people and planet.

Off the keyboard, photography keeps my eye sharp. Great software, like great images, is a perfect balance between light, space, and story.

I download developer betas on day one, not just to see the future, but to start building on it. I'm obsessed with frictionless experiences and making impact at scale.

Tanishq Saria
ƒ/1.8 · 1/200s · the maker

Education

University of Massachusetts Amherst

B.S. Computer Science · Minor in Business

Sep 2023 – Expected May 2027

Chancellor's ScholarDean's List
5K+
students served by UMassTableFinder
80%
faster icon discovery shipped @ SolarWinds
400+
repos analyzed by GitProfAlyzer
5
AI apps built in 5 weeks @ Headstarter

02 / Experience

The road so far.

03 / Selected Work

Things I've built to solve real problems.

Sep 2025 – Present

UMassTableFinder

Real-time dining, solved with NFC.

Founded a full-stack dining platform serving 5,000+ students with real-time reservations, NFC seat check-in, and live maps. Born from a real frustration: 29 minutes to find a seat in a 30-minute lunch break. Cut table-search time by 50%. Now prototyping native SwiftUI apps.

ReactTypeScriptTailwindSupabasePostgreSQLNFCSwiftUI

2026

yapload

Talk your day out.

A voice-first AI life organizer: ramble about your day like you're venting to a friend, and it files everything where it belongs — journal, tasks, calendar, notes — then auto-schedules the loose ends into the real gaps in your day and syncs two-way with Google. A Whisper → Llama 3.3 70B pipeline handles schema-validated, tense- and timezone-aware intent classification, and each day becomes a cinematic 3D photo memory. Built for everyone who tried journaling and quit — capture friction drops to near zero.

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseGroq · Whisper + LlamaGoogle APIsFramer Motion

2026

DOPPEL

Find any product's doppelgänger.

Type any product and pick your intent — budget dupe, same-vibe alternative, or premium upgrade — and DOPPEL reads the web for you: Reddit, YouTube transcripts, fragrance pyramids, ingredient catalogs, synthesized into honest, scored matches. Built on a $0 budget with a 7-provider LLM failover chain and a self-healing search stack that shrugged off three providers dying at once, plus a Redis cache that cuts repeat lookups from ~30s to 0.65s. Democratizes expensive taste — the $10 answer to a $185 serum, in 30 seconds.

Next.jsTypeScriptMulti-LLM orchestrationRedis (Upstash)Web scrapingCanvas API

Jan 2025 – Present

FoundTheLost

An AI lost-and-found that actually finds things.

An AI-driven campus lost-and-found that uses MCP-based ingestion with Claude/OpenAI vision and NLP to pull lost-item posts from Snapchat, Reddit, and in-app reports into Supabase, then automatically matches items by text, image, and location across UMass and sister campuses.

ReactTypeScriptSupabaseOpenAIClaudeMCP

Open Source

GitProfAlyzer

Raw GitHub activity into real insight.

An open-source dashboard that turns raw GitHub activity into meaningful insights across 400+ repositories, visualizing contribution patterns, languages, and developer signal.

ReactTypeScriptGitHub APIData Viz

2024

Headstarter AI Suite

5 AI apps in 5 weeks.

A sprint of full-stack AI products: a RAG search tool, an automated portfolio generator, a Pantry Tracker, a Customer-Support AI, and a Flashcard app with paywall, all shipped on Next.js and OpenAI.

Next.jsOpenAIFirebaseStripeAWS

More on GitHub →

04 / Through the Lens

When I'm off the keyboard,
I'm chasing light.

photography · art · perspective

Tap any frame to open the viewfinder. A living gallery. Fresh frames added often.

Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence React TypeScript Quantum Photography Next.js Swift Product Design Supabase Open Source Light · Space · Story Building What's Next Software Engineering Artificial Intelligence React TypeScript Quantum Photography Next.js Swift Product Design Supabase Open Source Light · Space · Story Building What's Next

05 / Toolkit

What I build with.

Languages

PythonJavaTypeScript / JSCSwiftKotlinHTMLCSSSQL

Frameworks & Libraries

ReactNext.jsNode.jsExpress.jsTailwind CSSSwiftUIREST APIs

Tools & Platforms

GitAgile / ScrumDockerAWSMongoDBSupabaseFigmaViteOpenAI APIStripe

Interests

Artificial IntelligenceQuantum ComputingProductPhotographyArt & PaintingArchery

Honors

Chancellor's Award

Certifications

IBM Z Xplore (Concepts)

Languages

Hindi (Native)

English (Professional)

06 / Let's connect

Let's build
what's next.

Always up for collaborations where AI, quantum, or great software can solve real-world problems. Let's talk.