$ whoami

Snehith
Nayak

Work
Software Engineer, Applied Materials
2024 - Present
School
M.S. Applied Data Science, University of Michigan
2025 - Present
B.S. Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
2024
snehith — zsh
~$ cat profile.json
{
  "languages": ["Python", "SQL", "C++"],
  "ml_and_data": ["PyTorch", "TensorFlow", "ClickHouse", "DuckDB", "PyArrow"],
  "infrastructure": ["Kubernetes", "Kafka", "AWS", "Redis", "Docker", "FastAPI"],
  "ai_tooling": ["MCP", "Claude API", "OpenAI API"],
  "location": "Bay Area, CA",
  "interests": ["Touching Grass", "Hiking", "Golf", "Basketball", "My Dog"]
}
~$

Experience

July 2024 — Present
Software Engineer AIx
Applied Materials  ·  Santa Clara, CA
Python Machine Learning FastAPI ClickHouse AWS / S3
  • Solving problems that didnt exist a month ago
June 2023 — Sept 2023
Machine Learning Engineer Intern — BBP
KLA  ·  Milpitas, CA
Python TensorFlow Image Classification
  • Taught computers how to learn
June 2022 — Sept 2022
Application Development Intern
Synopsys  ·  Santa Clara, CA
SQL Python
  • Made data do things it probably didn't want to do
Jun 2018 — Jan 2021
Founder
NPTutoring
Python HTML/CSS/PHP Firebase
  • Taught students how to code

Education

Projects

May 2026 — Present

Pixel Pane — Local-First macOS AI Assistant

Notch-native macOS assistant that runs on-device by default, with permission-gated side effects.

SwiftUIMLXCloudflare WorkersAnthropic APImacOS
Apr 2026

iso-code — Safe Worktree Management for AI Agents

Safe git worktree lifecycle management for AI coding agents.

RustCLIMCP ServerGit
Nov 2023 — Jun 2024

Health Monitoring Wearable — Capstone

Remote health monitoring wearable for nursing home residents.

PythonCJavaASIC DesignAltium
Jan 2023

Chromatic Tuner FPGA Development

FPGA-based chromatic tuner with fast FFT processing.

CC++FPGAEmbedded Systems
Jan 2020

Stock Market Sentiment Analysis

NLP sentiment model for surfacing market signals from news.

PythonNLPML
Jan 2020

Supply Chain Optimization

Regression-based manufacturing optimization for a competition case.

PythonRegressionOptimization
Apr 2022

Emotional Intelligence AI

Computer vision model for real-time emotion detection.

PythonDeep LearningComputer Vision

Tinkering

Jun 2026 tool

Pocket Library — one-file Analogue Pocket SD manager

Bought a used Analogue Pocket and wanted a simpler way to manage its SD card than hand-juggling the openFPGA Assets, Cores, and BIOS folders. So I built a single ~1,000-line Perl file: double-click it and it spins up a local web UI — browse games grouped by system, auto-sort dropped ROMs into the right folders, fetch missing BIOS files from the community archive (size-verified before install), pull box art, back up saves, and run maintenance. No install, no dependencies; the entire interface is embedded in the one file. Themed in noonlight, naturally.

Jun 2026 theme

noonlight — matching Terminal, Zed & VSCode themes

Put macOS Terminal and Zed on one shared palette: a warm, low-glare dark scheme — espresso-black background, soft cream text, and a muted red→amber→green→aqua accent ramp. The shell and the editor render the same colors, so moving between them is seamless.

shared palette