Harish Palani
Co-Founder at HABIT
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolHarish Palani is a founder and applied scientist with nine years of experience building multimodal AI, video understanding, and robotics systems across industry and research. After roles at Amazon and Twitch developing production-grade multimodal and video-content models, he co-founded HABIT (YC-backed) to bring intelligent robotics to neighborhood services. His background includes earthquake early warning research at USGS and aerial autonomy at Berkeley AI Research, showing an unusual blend of safety-critical sensing and embodied autonomy. A UC Berkeley M.E.T. and EECS graduate with business training from Haas, he pairs technical depth with product and go-to-market instincts. Notably, he started high-impact independent research as a teen—earning Intel ISEF recognition and even a minor planet named after him—demonstrating long-standing curiosity and results.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.E.T. Program, M.E.T. Program at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at UC Berkeley College of EngineeringBachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business4.75 GPA, 4.75 GPA at Sunset High School
Malayalam, Tamil, Spanish, English
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Github Skills (3)
android-intent6
android6
java6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
harishpalani/heap
Mar 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
harishpalani/linked-list-2
Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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