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, when I don't have immediate academic deadlines (and when the weather is nice), I like spending time outdoors. I also love playing all kinds of sports – football, table tennis, squash and more :)

Now

This fall, I'm working as a software engineer intern at Verily (Google Life Sciences), an Alphabet company born out of X, Google's moonshot factory.

I'm working on the Data Ingestion team on the Precision Health Platform.

Previously

Through my internships, I've had the opportunity to work across the full stack. Through co-ops at 4 different companies so far, I've gained knowledge and experience in infrastructure/devops, backend and frontend development, and (some) machine learning.

Here's a brief overview of my past internships:

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

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

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