Avikam

Hey! I'm Avikam

I'm a 4th year Computer Science undergraduate at the University of Waterloo.

I'm originally from New Delhi, but spent most of my childhood growing up in Singapore.

I love learning and building new things. My ultimate goal is to use technology to build products that people need and love using.

Outside of cs/tech, I love hiking and spending time outdoors. I also love playing all kinds of sports – football, table tennis, squash and more :)

Now

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This fall, I'm interning at Microsoft as a Software Engineer on the Azure Core Storage team.

Previously

Through 5 co-ops, I've had the opportunity to work across the full stack - gaining knowledge and experience in product engineering (frontend + backend), infra/devops, and machine learning.

Here's a brief overview of my past internships:

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Meta,  Software Engineer InternS25

  • At Facebook, I worked on the team that owns Instant Games (think FarmVille).
  • I built from scratch a feature that allows devs to set dynamic in-game item prices.

Tech: PHP (Hack), Javascript (React, React Native), GraphQL, SQL

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Verily,  Software Engineer InternF24

  • Verily, aka Google Life Sciences, is an Alphabet company working on precision health.
  • I worked on the Data Ingestion team within the Precision Health Platform.
  • I worked on building from scratch a mapping engine for structured FHIR data transformations.

Tech: Go, ProtoBufs, gRPC, React, ANTLR, GCP

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DNAstack,  Software Engineer InternW24

  • DNAstack is a federated data sharing platform for researchers to share, access, and derive insights from genomics and health data.
  • I worked as a Platform Engineer on the Platform Ops team.
  • Apart from day-to-day platform tasks that led to improved developer experience, I mostly worked on building out a new dev/staging cloud environment from scratch.

Tech: GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Datadog, Java, Python

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Constant Contact,  Software Engineer InternS23

  • Constant Contact is a digital and email marketing platform for small businesses.
  • I worked on the Shared Infrastructure team.
  • I was part of a small team that led migration of workloads to Kubernetes; also worked on training open-source LLMs to build a chat bot that allowed engineers to converse with company docs.

Tech: Kubernetes, Docker, Java/Spring, Jenkins, Argo, PyTorch, React, Flask

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Trend Micro,  Software Engineer InternF22

  • Trend Micro is a cybersecurity platform that provides tools for cloud security, endpoint protection, and network security.
  • I worked on the Cloud One Workload Security team
  • I worked on building infrastructure to securly stream, store and analyze TLS/HTTP metadata from agent connections to help debug cases of agents going offline.

Tech: AWS, Java/Spring, Jenkins

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