Nitish Kovuru is Co-Founder of Coasty (YC S26), a state-of-the-art computer-use agent platform that delivers enterprise-grade automation for back-office and legacy software workflows.

Nitish holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and pursued a Computer Science (Vision track) graduate program at Columbia University, where he TA'd a graduate-level AI course as an undergrad.

Nitish previously built enterprise sales automation agentic systems at his prior company, giving him firsthand insight into the limitations of brittle, script-based automation tools.

At Coasty, Nitish co-leads the development of a SOTA computer-use agent framework that achieved 82% accuracy on OSWorld, surpassing competitors like Claude, GPT agents, and UiPath.

Coasty tripled its user base within 48 hours of launch, is backed by Y Combinator (S26), and serves industries including healthcare, insurance, legal, and accounting with AI-driven workflow automation.