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 winter, I'm back at university finishing up my 4A term. I'm taking:

• CS 479 - Neural Networks
• CS 454 - Distributed Systems
• ECE 459 - Programming for Performance

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:

Verily,  Software Engineer InternF24

• Verily, formerly Google Life Sciences, is an Alphabet company dedicated to precision healthcare.
• 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

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