Abhilash Nambissan
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New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Hey, I'm
Abhilash
.

I specialize in research and development of operating systems and distributed systems.
Currently, I'm a graduate student at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

About Me.

I am a software developer who works on low-level and systems programming, with several years of experience developing various kinds of system software. Currently a graduate student specializing in operating systems design for new hardware architectures, I am gaining expertise in working with various Linux kernel subsystems. I also have 4+ years of experience designing and implementing scalable distributed systems for various cloud platforms and web applications. I aim for elegance and a performance engineering mindset when developing software.

Experience.

Software Developer Intern May 2024 - Aug 2024
  • Developed an automatic data pipeline to gather, process, and visualize the company's AWS resource consumption and costs data.
company-pic Calix, Inc. 2024-2024
Member of Technical Staff 2 Mar 2022 - Aug 2023
  • Developed Kubernetes operators, controllers and CLI tools for the Tanzu Kubernetes Platform, for lifecycle management of multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure.
company-pic VMware, Inc. 2022-2023
Software Engineer 1 Jan 2020 - Mar 2022 Junior Software Engineer Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
  • Designed and implemented distributed microservices and job queue systems for various applications ranging from e-learning to finance.
company-pic McKinsey & Company 2018 - 2022

Education.

MS Computer Science Aug 2023 - May 2025
  • Specializing in Operating Systems and Distributed Systems.
  • Research: OS Support for Near-Memory Processing.
  • Teaching: Part-Time Lecturer + Teaching Assistant for CS518: Operating Systems Design.
uni-pic Rutgers University - New Brunswick 2023 - 2025
B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering Jul 2014 - May 2018
  • Thesis: Embedded device in vehicles for crowd-sourcing road condition information.
uni-pic VIT University 2014 - 2018

Skills.

Languages

Golang, Rust, C, Python, JavaScript, SQL

Systems Programming

Kubernetes Operators and Controllers, Container Runtimes, File Systems, Linux Kernel Modules, Linux Device Drivers

Distributed Systems and Cloud

Microservices, gRPC, REST, Distributed Data Stores, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, CI/CD, Terraform

Network Programming

eBPF, XDP, P4

Web Development

Node.js, React.js, CSS

Misc. tools & frameworks

Docker, Helm, PostgreSQL, Redis, Git

Get In Touch.

Want to discuss a collaboration opportunity, project idea or just say hi? Send me a message!

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