NYU MS CS grad who ships and verifies: looking for a fast NYC startup

I’m Keshav, MS CS from NYU Tandon (May 2026). I like owning a problem end to end and proving the fix against the running thing, not just the tests. A few recent things:

TideFit: audited and launched my roommate Utkarsh Mittal’s Next.js trip planner. I found 15 issues and fixed 13, upgraded Next 14 to 16 to take npm audit from 6 vulnerabilities to 0, took tests from 0 to 45, and set up CI with auto-deploy. Strava and Google sign-in are verified live.

Custodian: a household inventory that watches CPSC, NHTSA and FDA recalls. It runs as an MCP server with its own OAuth 2.1 server so Alexa+ and Claude can use it: 10 tools, 79 tests, p95 under 100 ms.

Ledger: a revenue-forecast agent where code checks every number and buyer quote before a finance team sees it. Fabrications went from 97 to 0.

Gemma 4 SWE-agent (Kaggle, ongoing): rebuilt the organizers’ agent harness so I could evaluate offline exactly as the scorer does, and I run automated daily submissions.

Portfolio Pulse: built with Utkarsh at NYC’s Deal Flow VC hackathon. It turns news on 142 portfolio companies into ranked signals, and code drops any drafted fact without a citation.

The common thread is agents and LLM products that don’t lie: checks in code, real evals, CI from day one.

I’m looking for an early-stage NYC team that moves fast (applied AI, agents or full-stack). I can start immediately. If you’re hiring, or know someone who is, I’d love to talk. Everything is at happyc0der.github.io.