Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science, 2021 - Present

Emory University

B.S. in Computer Science Minor in Applied Mathematics, 2019

Research Experience

Graduate Student Researcher, Fall 2021 - Present

Language, Systems, and Data Lab at UCSC

Work under Dr. Peter Alvaro in the intersection of distributed systems, networks, and operating systems
Improving microservices communication performance by leveraging new disaggregated memory technologies enabled by CXL

Undergraduate Student Researcher Fall 2019

SimBioSys Lab at Emory University

Worked with Dr. Arnold of Emory University on research exploring the simulation of exascale HPC programs
Researched synthesizing of traces of HPC motifs/patterns to benchmark systems on a system upscaling simulator

Invited Talks

Computational I/O Stack Workshop, UC Santa Cruz, August 17, 2023
- Split gRPC: An Isolation Architecture for RPC Stacks on SmartNICs

Distinction

MCM/ICM: The Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling(COMAP), Spring 2019

Outstanding Winner

Competed with Emily Rexer and Ishan Saran in the MCM/ICM 2019 and chosen as one of the 19 Outstanding Winners out of 11,000 participating teams and for publication
Paper published in the Fall 2019 Edition of the UMAP Journal, as A Monetary Evaluation of Ecosystem Services

Industrial Experience

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California, USA, Summer 2022

Graduate Software Engineering Intern

Worked on RemoteProocedureCall(RPC) offload to Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU)
Significantly reduced latency through low level profiling and testing to reach zero-copy request/reply flow in gRPC offload prototype

NCR Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Spring 2020- Fall 2021

Software Engineer

Worked as a full-time Software Engineer in an experienced team using Agile methodology on a Microservices based series of Java applications deployed on Kubernetes with Apache Beam integration
Aided in the design and development of a configurable schema-flexible ETA ingestion platform for batch and stream processing of large numbers of customer records

Verint Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Summer 2019

Software Engineering Intern

Developed a RESTful API in Java that facilitated querying of internal status information of a complex integration component in a largely self led project that was pushed into production after completion

Programming Skills

Languages: Proficient in Java, C, C++, SQL; Experience with Rust, Python, JavaScript, MATLAB, x86 Assembly

Frameworks/Tools: Proficient in UNIX, SpringFramework; Experience with Valgrind, linux-perf, Kubernetes, Apache Beam, Gradle, Maven, Google Cloud Platform

Relevant Coursework Distributed Systems, Compilers, Networks, Design of Database Systems, Systems Programming, Mathematical Modeling, Computer Security, Assembly Programming, Algorithms, Cryptography, Numerical Analysis

Languages

Native Spanish, Fluent English, Proficient in German