Vansh Patel
About
Most of my work is turning messy real-world data into tools people use.
Right now that means software at The Nuclear Company. I shipped Tabletop, TNC's first revenue-generating product. Constellation Energy uses it to assess physical security and run threat simulations at nuclear sites. Now I'm building the floorplan and site-assessment tools that go with it.
Before this I was at the University of Kentucky, first as an AIM fellow mapping opioid overdose hotspots for the state, then building AI research tools at the campus computing center. On the side I've built Big Talk (formerly SpeakUp), an iOS app for practicing speaking, and order forecasting for Papa Johns.
- Education
- B.S. Computer Science, University of Kentucky, 2025. Math minor, AI certificate, 4× Dean's List.
- Stack
- TypeScript, Python, Swift, Electron, Next.js, SwiftUI, PyTorch, SQLite
- Based in
- Lexington, KY
Off the clock
Formula 1
A favorite. There's an F1 car in the dex.
Sleep tinkering
I built two apps that set my bed temperature from WHOOP and Apple Health data.
Horse racing
I built a Keeneland race model at a hackathon.
Energy
Mostly nuclear, which is also my job.
The dex
The critter on the home screen can catch 17 creatures. See which ones you have.
Experience
Jun 2025 – Present
Software Engineer II
The Nuclear Company, Lexington, KY
- Shipped Tabletop, TNC's first revenue-generating product: an Electron desktop app Constellation Energy uses for physical security posture and threat assessment simulations
- Worked directly with Constellation, TNC's first paying customer, and am now onboarding its entire fleet
- Built floorplans end to end: site blueprints as GeoJSON mapped to buildings, with SQLite persistence and a shipped site asset pack fallback
- Built a red-flag site assessment that scored 100+ US candidate sites against 77 expert criteria for new nuclear deployment
- On a 3-person engineering team, closed 98% of identified bugs in the Linear backlog over three months
- Built Palantir Foundry mobile apps for site workers plus a hierarchical shapes-engine map from fleet level to site level
Oct 2024 – Apr 2025
AI Solutions Developer
Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
- Built a research platform with Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind that brought AI into scientific workflows across 5 university departments
- Developed a Python transcription and formatting system that turned hours of audio/video into structured data 2× faster than existing tools
- Shipped Chroma DB retrieval apps that improved data retrieval by 30%
May 2024 – Aug 2024
AIM Fellowship Researcher
Center of Applied Artificial Intelligence, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
- Led geospatial visualization for RADOR-KY, building predictive models that flagged emerging opioid overdose hotspots for statewide public health interventions
- Built a daily Python/GeoPandas pipeline and ArcGIS Pro analytics tool serving 120+ Kentucky counties, cutting map generation time by 17%
- Shipped Tabletop, TNC's first revenue-generating product: an Electron desktop app Constellation Energy uses for physical security posture and threat assessment simulations
- Worked directly with Constellation, TNC's first paying customer, and am now onboarding its entire fleet
- Built floorplans end to end: site blueprints as GeoJSON mapped to buildings, with SQLite persistence and a shipped site asset pack fallback
- Built a red-flag site assessment that scored 100+ US candidate sites against 77 expert criteria for new nuclear deployment
- On a 3-person engineering team, closed 98% of identified bugs in the Linear backlog over three months
- Built Palantir Foundry mobile apps for site workers plus a hierarchical shapes-engine map from fleet level to site level
Projects
- Big Talk2025–26A speaking gym for iPhone that scores every take on the phone. Formerly SpeakUp.
- Tokenuinely2026A semantic, graph-aware index of your repo, served to AI coding agents over MCP.
- Whisp2026A private dictation keyboard for iPhone. Speech becomes text on the Neural Engine and never leaves the phone.
- Inview2026A marketplace where creators auction product placement in the rooms they film in.
- Goodnight2026Apple Health sleep stages in, a phased overnight bed-temperature plan out. On device.
- Habit Formed2026A gesture-driven habit tracker whose habits can check themselves off from Apple Health.
- ShippingEnv2026A from-scratch reinforcement-learning environment: haul cargo between ports on a world map.
- Order forecasting for Papa Johns2025Per-store, per-hour order forecasts set against what the staff on shift can handle.
- Yapin2026A macOS menu-bar app: press a hotkey, talk, and styled text is pasted wherever you are.
- ProDeck AI2025A multi-agent pipeline that turns data files and a brand into an editable slide deck.
- Transcribin2025Finds the slide changes in a lecture video and writes notes with one section per slide.
- GoCrypt2025A Go CLI that stamps ownership into a PDF and seals it with AES-256-GCM.
- Keeneland race model2025A hackathon XGBoost model that ranks the likely top finishers of Keeneland races.
- Datote2025A browser-based statistics workbench: drop in a CSV, get charts, tests and cleanup.
- Vittle2025Photograph a meal, get an AI calorie estimate, share it with friends.
- Trace2025Encrypted academic records pinned to a permanent ledger, shared by the student.
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