May 2021 – Aug 2021 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Wrote a simulator to simulate the working of petabyte size Microsoft Hyper-V servers for end to end testing. Mocked responses to system level (WMI) calls and Apache Thrift RPC calls.
• Reduced test-bed setup time from ∼ 2 days to ∼ 5 minutes, enabled automated testing, fault injection using Python and Apache Thrift.

May 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Coded Data Rebalancing (Under Prof. Prasad Krishnan, SPCRC, IIIT-H)
• ◦ Studying the problem of rebalancing data after a node failure in distributed systems. Working on a scheme to use ideas from coding theory to minimize the communication load involved in this process.
• Algorithms for Graph Centrality (Under Prof. Kishore Kothapalli, CSTAR, IIIT-H)
• ◦ Studying graph decompositions to parallelize and speed up various graph centrality algorithms.
• Publications:
• Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Percolation Centrality [HiPC 2021] (Joint First Author)

May 2019 – Dec 2019 · 7 mos

• - Created algorithmic challenges of varying levels of difficulty involving data structures and algorithms. This involved generating test cases, rigorously testing and writing proofs of correctness for intended solutions, analyzing running time, and writing expository editorials.

May 2019 – May 2019 · 0 mo · Hyderabad, India

• Student Technology Education Program(STEP) is IIIT Hyderabad’s summer series of certification courses for 7th - 10th standard students on Computational Thinking.
• As a TA, I:
• Taught sessions on Informatics and Problem solving using paradigms like abstraction, algorithmic
• thinking, decomposition, etc.
• Conducted games and activities to help build intuition and understanding of difficult concepts.
• Assisted professors in creating lecture material.

Aug 2018 – Oct 2018 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, India

• Built an interactive voice assistant for Frejun’s meeting application, featuring hot-word recognition and real-time speech to text conversion.
• Created a minimum viable product with Django to use as a demo-able proof of concept, featuring the voice assistant along with additional features such as punctuation, tagging, etc.

Dec 2017 – Feb 2018 · 2 mos · Remote

• Developed Python-Flask backends and collaborated with frontend developers to build complete web applications
• Developed starter projects for ”Hasura Hub” which run on the Hasura platform along with Hasura’s microservices

Dec 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

• Read papers on various Estimator combination techniques.
• Used machine learning tools to prototype and empirically evaluate the performance of various models on a proprietary data set. Used NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn etc. to conduct and present experiments.