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title: "Tanish Desai - Software Engineer in Vadodara | Tal"
description: "Meet Tanish Desai, Engineering@Eightfold.ai | GSoC 2026 | Open Source Contributor Coconut SVSM | Model Context Protocol (MCP) | QEMU based in Vadodara. AI stack includes claude code."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/tanish-desai/share-image"
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# Tanish Desai on Tal

## Headline

Engineering@Eightfold\.ai \| GSoC 2026 \| Open Source Contributor Coconut SVSM \| Model Context Protocol \(MCP\) \| QEMU

## About

https://tanish111\.github\.io/tanishd/

## Location

Vadodara

## AI stack

claude code

## Work experience

Software Engineer at Eightfold AI, Jan 2026 \- Present · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Worked as a Software Engineer at Eightfold AI, where I built a web\-based code editor on top of a VS Code fork to support AI\-assisted coding interviews through an interactive in\-browser development environment\. Designed and implemented backend services and automation workflows to rank, match, and schedule AI interviews using configurable scoring and matching algorithms, significantly reducing manual recruiter effort\.

Software Engineer at JPMorganChase, May 2025 \- Jul 2025 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Completed a Software Engineering Internship at JPMorgan Chase in the Consumer & Community Banking division, where I built a Spring Boot microservice to enable multi\-level authorization for corporate credit card transactions in the Chase Mobile App\. Developed and integrated five supporting microservices using JWT, OAuth 2\.0, REST APIs, and Oracle SQL, improving the security and scalability of the authorization workflow\. Collaborated with cross\-functional teams to design, implement, test, and deploy backend services following enterprise software engineering best practices\.

Software Engineer at Jio Platforms Limited \(JPL\), May 2024 \- Jul 2024 · 3 mos, Mumbai, Worked as a Machine Learning Intern at Jio Platforms \(Jio Matrix\), where I developed an automated data collection and preprocessing pipeline that reduced manual effort by over 50%\. Built and curated large\-scale computer vision datasets using Roboflow and trained Ultralytics YOLOv8 models for object detection across 24 classes, achieving strong detection performance \(mAP > 0\.8 for 13 classes\)\. Implemented data augmentation, model evaluation, and inference pipelines using PyTorch, contributing to the development of production\-ready computer vision solutions\.

Junior Consultant at BITS Goa Consulting Club, May 2023 \- Mar 2024 · 11 mos, Goa, India

Senior Web Developer at Developers' Society, BITS Goa, Dec 2022 \- Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Goa, India

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Computer Science, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani \- Goa Campus

Delhi Public School \- India

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