Minu Palaniappan
Software Engineer at Finch
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMinu Palaniappan is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building infrastructure and product features for startups and early-stage companies in New York. She’s currently focused on data infrastructure at Finch after helping stand up virtual storefronts and supplier platforms as Engineer #1 at Nickel. Earlier roles include core engineering at Middesk (employee #3), investment diligence at 8VC, and impactful internships at Google, Yelp, and MailChimp where she shipped energy-optimization and search-performance improvements. As a student founder she scaled Gradfire to serve ~15K students and 60M course search requests, earning UC Davis’s Chancellor’s Innovation Award—an early sign of her product sensibility and operational drive. Comfortable across backend systems, automation, and data pipelines, she combines startup grit with a talent for turning ambiguous problems into reliable, production-ready systems. Based in NYC, she brings a pragmatic engineering approach informed by both hands-on shipping and strategic evaluation of technical risk.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of California, DavisSaratoga High School
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Github Skills (35)
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web-crawler9
puppeteer9
npm9
typescript9
graphql-query9
nodejs9
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firefox8
api8
automation8
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
minupalaniappan/minupalaniappan.github.io
May 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:278 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 9 months
minupalaniappan/linear-cli
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 49 commits, 8 PRs in 24 days
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