Tanish Khadse

Hi, I'm Tanish 👋

I love challenges in distributed systems and low-level programming. Also have a drive for impact.

  • BS-MCS degree at UIUC.
  • Got into GPU programming.
  • Going pro in ping pong one day.
  • Happy to chat :)
    • tkhadse2 [at] illinois [dot] edu

Work Experience

  • Salesforce | Software Engineering Intern May 2025 - Aug 2025
    • high availablility & real-time translation
  • Nightshift | Co-founder/CTO Jan 2025 - present
    • voice AI agents for hotel automation
  • Yahoo | Software Engineering Intern Jun 2024 - Aug 2024
    • data pipeline observability
  • ML Research @ UIUC Oct 2023 - March 2024
    • model speedup with CUDA & long-sequence inference

Projects

  • PyTorch JIT Compiler [github] [blog]
    Fall 2025 - present
  • Hierarchical HLM (HiLM) [github]
    Fall 2025 - present
  • Query Reorder Buffer (QRB) for Efficient RAG [github]
    Fall 2025
  • Transport Protocol
    Fall 2024
  • Linux Kernel Modules
    Fall 2024
  • Autonomous F1-Tenth Vehicle [github]
    Fall 2024
  • Raft
    Spring 2024
  • CUDA-Accelerated Convolutional Neural Network
    Fall 2023