# Abhiti Vaish

> Tech for US Gov // Cape

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/abhiti

Software dev specializing in big data, small devices, and scalable solutions across the federal government. Particularly passionate about social development in health, agriculture, education, and city planning.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cape
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States

### Enterprise Technical Lead // AI for US Government @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
Scaling the Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) to support use cases across the health, civil, and defense portfolio. Focused specifically on integration of open-source and foundational embedding and large language models (LLMs) at high DoD impact levels.

### Enterprise Technical Lead // HHS-ASPR @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
Enterprise Technical Lead for the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) portfolio, supporting the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in taking COVID-19 infrastructure and expanding it to support a breadth of public health emergencies. Working most closely with the Supply Chain Control Tower (SCCT), H-CORE (HHS Coordination Operations and Response Element), and the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS).

### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States
Individual contributor supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs (specifically, Veterans Health Administration) during the COVID response, through the first round of vaccines and beyond by building tooling to assess Veterans' timely access to healthcare.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, MA
Designed ed-tech web app to teach Smartfonts, Microsoft Research’s tool which facilitates reading digital content using static and dynamic colorful “21st Century fonts” which are highly distinguishable in comparison to familiar fonts; championed the REST API and DevOps for the product.

### Mobile Engineering Intern @ Brightest, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Brooklyn, NY
Built the Android app to widen the Brightest user pool, to help individuals use the platform to get involved with (volunteer) opportunities that they are passionate about.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Comcast
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Philadelphia Area
Smart Network Platform, NetIQ
Designed Zone Lookup Service, a REST API (Python Flask and Java Spring Boot + Swagger) returning pertinent security zones and services pertaining to queried IP address (based on corresponding subnet); deployed organization-wide in July 2018. Wrote PyBatfish wrappers utilizing Batfish (www.batfish.org), an open-source network configuration tool that preemptively detects configurations and path inconsistencies to validate NTP and ACLS in Comcast router configuration files.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Teralytic
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, NY
Designed a Serverless AWS-backed (Lambda, DynamoDB) Alexa skill that reports soil metrics and anomalies on command. Created an AWS-backed (SNS) backoff Slack alert mechanism that detects inactive LoRaWAN gateways, used to monitor farm land. Constructed Apple ARKit experience to display soil sensor data.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Senseable City Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA
Developed scripts to analyze smartphone accelerometer data to monitor and repair bridges using principles of Structural Health Monitoring. Structured organizational protocol for crowd-sourced data.

### OpenAg: Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA
Set up industrial open-source hydroponic crop lab, recorded and analyzed temperature regulatory systems had on crops


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### International Baccalaureate
UWC-USA
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### International Baccalaureate
American School of Bombay
Jan 2007 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhiti-vaish
- Website: https://abhitivaish.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-01