Software engineer

Hitansh
Paliwal

I build reliable systems for document intelligence, distributed computing, and LLM evaluation.

Work

Dragin, now15k+ statements/month · 10.2× faster extractionPreviously Enphase Energy and Microsoft

Dragin · 2026 to nowDocument extraction services processing 15k+ bank statements a month. Async batching resolved recurring worker timeouts with a 10.2× speedup.

Enphase Energy · 2023 to 2025Backend services and React interfaces, including a gRPC sync channel serving 5,000+ daily requests after a 45% latency reduction.

Microsoft · 2020 to 2023Full-stack engineering across web interfaces, APIs, and data layers for enterprise clients.

Projects

Sharded Paxos Ledger2,230 tx/s · Multi-Paxos + 2PCAlso: Go/gRPC load balancer and tinywatchVisualization GitHub

Sharded Paxos LedgerNine nodes, Multi-Paxos, and two-phase commit. Throughput rose from 20 to 2,230 tx/s at equal concurrency.Visualization GitHub

nw load balancerLayer-7 gRPC routing in Go with consistent hashing and retry safety.Visualization GitHub

tinywatchA roughly 900-byte TypeScript analytics client with pluggable database adapters.npm GitHub

Research

When Policies Change ProbabilitiesDecision-theoretic LLM code reviewRead on arXiv

When Policies Change ProbabilitiesCo-author of a modular, decision-theoretic approach to LLM code review. Under review. Read on arXiv

About

MS CS · Stony BrookDistributed systems and NLPEmail LinkedIn GitHub

EducationMS Computer Science at Stony Brook University, 2025 to 2027. BTech Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology, 2016 to 2020.

FocusDistributed systems and NLP.

TeachingTA for CSE381, 3D Game Programming, Fall 2025.

ContactEmail LinkedIn arXiv GitHub

PythonGoTypeScriptC#ReactKafkaRedisAWSSQL

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Hitansh Paliwal

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