Tanay Anand

I am a mentor and STEM Enthusiast, fluent in C/C++, Java, and AI/ML applications with Python.

Resume

Data Science/Analytics Internship

Cisco

Shadowed current Data Science/Analytics employees, and observed how data and pipelines are used at larger companies. Used what I learned to complete a capstone project with a group, using data to create safer railways.

June - July 2022

President Of Game Development Club

Irvington High School

Introduced members to concepts in Unity, C#, Blender and other game dev tools. Have over 30 concurrent members, host monthly Game Jams and other competitions.

March 2020 - 2022

Web Development Mentor

Shooting Stars Foundation

Teach over 600 students total, the concepts of Web Development through a series of crash-courses (10+ sets of classes around 4 months every year), starting with fundamentals (tags, elements) moving in to more advanced concepts(creating shadows and animations with CSS)

November 2019 - 2023

Hackathon Tech Mentor & Producer

AMGEN, NetScout, and other StarHacks hosted Hackathons

Helped teams ranging from 5-10 members with any technical bugs/issues they had trouble solving when creating their product for the Hackathon, fixed bugs ranging from languages ranging from flutter/react-native to HTML/CSS/JS

June 2019 - 2022

Computer Science Tutor

TheCoderSchool

Taught students languages like Java, C#, and Python, prepared them for the AP Comp-Sci Test, and had them, create projects for their portfolio.

August 2022-June 2023

Alto Saxaphonist (Jazz)

Gregory's Big Band, Horner Junior High, Irvington High

Avid Alto Saxophonist for the past 7 years, tutored over 700 students ranging from 5th to 8th grade, part of over 5 different Jazz Bands, YouTube videos with over 1000 views.

August 2013 - Present

Education

Carnegie Mellon Pre-College Program

National High School Game Development Academy (NHSGA)
Programmer (Unity C#), Developer & Audio Engineer

June 2021 - August 2021

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science and Computer Systems Engineering

Current Classes: Linear Algebra, Advanced Algorithms, Electric Circuits, Thermodynamics

August 2023 - Present

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Fluency
  • 6+ years in C/C++
  • 5+ years in Java/JavaScript & HTML/CSS
  • 4+ years in C# Unity Game Development
  • 8+ years of Computer Science Knowledge

Projects

Transformer Scaling Explainer

An interactive visual tool that models Transformer inference scaling. Users can adjust layers, sequence length, precision, and hardware parameters to see how latency, attention cost, and KV cache memory change in real time.

The tool separates compute vs memory time and highlights when a model becomes memory bound or compute bound, demonstrating hardware-aware reasoning for AI accelerator design.

Live Demo | GitHub

Neural Networks and LLM Visualizer

An interactive visual tool that breaks down how large language models process text. Users can explore tokenization, attention patterns, and internal representations to better understand how transformers interpret and generate language.

The project focuses on making complex model behavior intuitive through real time visual feedback.

Live Demo | GitHub