Aug 2015 – Aug 2023 · 8 yrs

• Studying the parallels between neural architecture and distributed computational systems.

Jul 2013 – Jul 2015 · 2 yrs · La Jolla, CA

• Working to understand the dichotomy between simple and complex cells in the feline primary visual cortex by characterizing spike-train datasets through their algebraic topologies. We use Python and Matlab for data analytics and simulations.

Jun 2011 – Dec 2011 · 6 mos

• Worked with a small team addressing the disk bottleneck problem in data de-duplication for primary storage by using my thesis work in data grouping. Involved analyzing traces of 100GB+ in short amounts of time as well as writing Python libraries to simulate de-duplication. This work appeared in ICDE 2013.

Jun 2010 – Aug 2010 · 2 mos

• Worked with Lee Ward to analyze block I/O data from a multi-use production system in order to define and identify similarity between particular data blocks. Published in SYSTOR 2011

Jun 2009 – Sep 2009 · 3 mos

• Implemented a PID-based control system in Python to automatically balance customers for Bigtable (a key/value store). Extensively researched reward functions and SLA/SLO management techniques and wrote out a detailed experiment plan to investigate the tradeoffs between economic and standard scheduling techniques. Worked with the Census team to expand their SLO framework to include SLAs.

May 2008 – Aug 2008 · 3 mos

• Worked with a team of 4 researchers to develop a highly accurate method to automatically classify log excerpts from commercially deployed storage systems to speed up problem isolation. This involved coding in Java, particularly the Lucene search engine, and Python for the backend and data-manipulation respectively. This work was published in SRDS 2009

Aug 2007 – Sep 2013 · 6 yrs 1 mo

• I worked in the Storage Systems Research Center (http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/) focusing on probabilistic models over distributed storage systems.

May 2006 – Aug 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Documented Internal Build System Components using HTML/CSS and Wiki. Studied and documented Code Dependencies in Python, UNIX Shell, and C++ scripts. Used Python to implement statistical techniques including Hidden Markov Models to analyze web data.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr

• Rolled out and managed Cisco VoIP across organization, managed XServes and Cisco optical routing equipment along with NOC services including RT, Ciscoworks, and Intermapper.