About
Tirath Chhatriwala
Product manager working at the seam of federal student aid policy and software. I turn ambiguous regulation into shipped, testable, publicly verifiable tools.
Cite or don't claim
Every number this site produces traces back to a labelled source, and where the regulation is unsettled the tool says so instead of guessing quietly.
Two audiences, one engine
Students and financial aid staff need opposite levels of detail from identical math. One tested engine, different surfaces, no forked logic.
Make it checkable
Public scenarios, an OpenAPI contract, a scenario-challenge process. If I am wrong, I want it to be cheap for someone to prove it.
Ship the boring parts
Versioning, disclaimers, release markers, and regression fixtures are the product when the domain is compliance.