Joseph Palakapilly
Co-Founder at Meticulate (YC W24)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Palakapilly is a software engineer and founder blending full-stack product development with energy tech and data science. As Co-Founder of Meticulate (YC W24), he leads product development in San Francisco, applying practical engineering and scalable systems since 2023. Previously at Camus Energy, he built end-to-end software and a control system for utility-scale solar and storage, spanning infrastructure, data pipelines, and client-side UI. His background includes research in automatic speech recognition and NLP at Rev.com, plus ML-driven solar production forecasting during internships at kWh Analytics and Citrine Informatics. A UC Berkeley EECS graduate, he has nearly a decade of experience shipping production systems across energy tech and machine learning-focused software. He combines hands-on software craftsmanship with a founder's mindset, translating complex domain requirements into reliable, impactful products.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Github Skills (61)
gateway8
automatic-speech-recognition8
materials-informatics7
sdk7
api7
quantum-computing6
speech-recognition6
speech6
google6
science6
conformer6
asr6
graph6
whisper6
machine-learning-algorithms6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JPalakapilly/optimal_bidding
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Projects in process
Contributions:32 pushes, 10 branches in 1 month
in-process
JPalakapilly/optimanage
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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