Summary
Sahil Chatiwala is a pragmatic software engineer with five years of experience building backend systems, AI tooling, and security-aligned products across startups and research labs in the New York City area. He’s been an early engineer at multiple startups (person #10 at Fern) and contributed to agentic search and self-hosted gRPC infrastructures used by customers like Anduril and Nominal, later working on AI integrations for ElevenLabs and Cohere. His background spans applied research—Kalman filtering at Georgia Tech—to shipping production features like automated router error tracing at Cisco and a Seed automated testing suite. A startup enthusiast who has served as a founding engineer and short-term startup fellow at Palantir, Sahil blends hands-on systems engineering with an interest in AI safety and security alignment. He tends to operate at the intersection of research and production, turning experimental models and algorithms into reliable, deployable services.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Wayne Hills High School