ashayc.

ashay changwani

engineer & founder

i build tools for agents
that do real work.

From evaluating how agents behave to building the systems they run on.

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engineer & founder
san jose, california

senior staff engineerPalo Alto Networks

technical co-founderStealth

agent evaluation
production AI
knowledge graphs

01 / career & ventures

experience.

Teams, products, and the
work I’ve owned.

aug 2023 — present

Palo Alto Networks

Senior Staff Software Engineer

staff → senior staff in 1.5 years

Building the systems behind production agents.

agent evaluation & execution

Helped lead an evaluation platform alongside the lead architect. Built simulated evaluation environments and an execution harness for a production agent assessing vulnerability exposure.

knowledge graph

Independently designed and built the initial knowledge graph, connecting OSINT, battlecards, Unit 42 reporting, paid cybersecurity publications, and first-party threat intelligence. Researchers and agents use it to trace indicators across infrastructure, threat actors, and campaigns.

oct 2026 — present

Stealth

Technical Co-Founder

Accentuating enterprise data for knowledge work agentic evals

jan 2024 — may 2025

Prospify

Founder & CEO

failed startup

From an everyday problem to a shipped product.

Built and launched a consumer finance product for shared expenses and credit reconciliation.

earlier experience

may — sep 2022

Palo Alto Networks

Software Application Engineer Intern

Threat-data ingestion and observability.

jan — aug 2021

Trilogy / Crossover

Software Development Engineer II

Backend APIs and reporting systems.

jul 2020 — jan 2021

Quantiphi

Machine Learning Intern

Call classification and speaker diarization.

02 / open source & experiments

independent projects.

Open-source tools, research,
and experiments beyond the day job.

01 / developer tools 2026

imprint.

Teach a workflow once.
Give an agent a tool it can reuse.

I built a TypeScript compiler that turns recorded browser workflows into parameterized MCP tools, with validation and live verification.

explore the source

inside imprint / architecture overview

select a stage to inspect

01 capture

captured evidence
requestsresponses
session.jsonl

02 compile

discovery · API researchworkflow.jsonoptional parsers & transforms

03 validate

independent review semantic checksevidence retained

04 serve

promote checked toolsindex.tsready for an agent call
focused repair & re-validationfailed checks
01 / capture

start with evidence from a real session.

Record network requests, responses, and DOM interactions. The session becomes concrete input for discovering and compiling tools.

compilation · capture → compile → validate → serve

schematic of the implementation · no live requests
architecture notes

02 / computer vision 2020

eye tracking &
foveated rendering

Iris localization and gaze estimation, applied to a rendering prototype. Published with collaborators.

source code IEEE publication

03 / data visualization 2023

aichart

A JavaScript library that selects chart types and generates validated ApexCharts configurations from data.

source code

more experiments

open a project for details
wastenotfood donation intake & pickup routingHack@CEWIT · 2023

team build · React Native · Flask

connect surplus food with a route to deliver it.

Co-built conversational donation intake and pickup routing that works within a volunteer’s available time.

four awards · Hack@CEWIT

Climate Action Hero, AI Mastermind, HealthTech Hero, and Hacking Hero.

project, demo & awards
study companionbrowsing sessions to notes & quizzesLAHacks · 2023

team build · browser extension

turn a study session into something you can revisit.

Co-built a Chrome extension and web app that turns study material from web pages, PDFs, and videos into summaries and quizzes.

Submitted to LAHacks as CRAP! — Creative and Remarkable AI for Productivity.

source code project & demo
twerpan AI writing assistantHackGPT NYC · 2023

solo build · writing tools

a second perspective on your writing.

I built a writing assistant for argument critique, grammar, tone, and fact-checking, with a Streamlit interface.

2nd overall · HackGPT NYC

PromptLayer challenge winner · 3rd in the Cohere challenge.

source code project & awards
original 2023 demo · tone changes shown as highlighted edits · silent recording
catcaptionsphotos to captions & text messagesWhiskerHacks · 2023

team build · React Native · Twilio

an image in. a few words to go with it.

Built the React Native interface and extended the backend for an image-to-caption app, with optional delivery by text message.

“Out of the whisker box” winner

source code project & demo
gptutorcourse-aware tutoring in DiscordHackNYU · 2023

retrieval · Flask · Discord

answers grounded in the course material.

Built a retrieval-based course assistant that brings uploaded teaching material into Discord. Student feedback routes disputed answers to professors, whose corrections feed back into the knowledge base.

source code project & demos

03 / education

the foundations.

2021 — 2023

New York University

M.S. Computer Science · Courant Institute

M. Michael Waller Master’s Fellowship

2016 — 2020

University of Mumbai

B.E. Computer Engineering · TSEC

Principal’s Award of Excellence

04 / contact

let’s build something
worth using.

Working on agents, evaluation environments, or the tools around them? I’d like to hear about it.