I'm a second year Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major at UC Berkeley. I'm currently working on the Spark cluster computing project at the Berkeley AMPLab, and I'll be spending the summer as an intern at Google.
In the past I've interned in the Core Systems team at Facebook and at the Microsoft Research eXtreme Computing Group.
I graduated from Interlake High School, where I enjoyed being part of the Gifted High School Program (PRISM).
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Work
| UC Berkeley AMPLab | Berkeley, CA |
| Undergraduate Research Assistant | September 2010 to present |
At the AMPLab I work on Spark, an open source cluster computing framework written in Scala. Currently I'm writing a replay debugger for Spark programs. I also used Spark to build a Pregel-like graph processing framework called Bagel.
| Palo Alto, CA | |
| Software Engineer Intern | May to August 2011 |
I spent last summer improving Facebook's cluster manager. I wrote code to track and limit the network usage of running jobs.
| Microsoft Research | Redmond, WA |
| Research Intern | June to August 2010 |
I interned at Microsoft Research's eXtreme Computing Group over the summer after I graduated high school. I explored how to design scalable iterative programs on top of certain cloud storage abstractions. I built a prototype called CloudClustering and presented the results at DataCloud 2011 in Anchorage, Alaska.
| Jain Foundation | Bellevue, WA |
| Software Development Consultant | January to June 2010 |
During 12th grade, I wrote some code on the side at the Jain Foundation to help process abstract submissions for their scientific conference.
| Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University | Cambridge, MA |
| Summer Intern | July to August 2009 |
I was lucky to do an internship at Harvard's Berkman Center after 11th grade. I worked on HerdictWeb, a site that collects user reports of Internet censorship and analyzes them.
| DreamBox Learning | Bellevue, WA |
| Software Development Engineer Intern | July to August 2007 |
My first internship was at DreamBox after 9th grade. I made virtual toys like abacuses to help kids learn math.
Other
In 11th grade, I did some research into distributed genetic algorithms applied to the Boggle word game, to satisfy my curiosity about the single Boggle board with the most words packed into it. This turned into a software project called DistBoggle, and a paper called "Optimizing Boggle Boards: An Evaluation of Parallelizable Techniques."
In 9th grade, I wrote a game called "Hunt the Wumpus 3D," leading a team of six AP Computer Science students for Microsoft's annual Hunt the Wumpus competition.
I loved playing XPilot back in fifth grade (2003), and my favorite map was "Nuke Dark Hell" – a remake of the standard New Dark Hell map, but with a bunch of item concentrators that churned out hundreds of missiles and mines... the perfect recipe for nukes! Nuke Dark Hell seems to have disappeared, so I remade it (and set up a server running it at xpilot.ankurdave.com). Here's the map: NukeDH 1.6 for XPilot.