Aashray Arora aashray.arora@stonybrook.

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Mobile:631-520-4427, Stony Brook, NY http://aashrayarora.com; http://in.linkedin.com/in/aashrayarora
Education
Stony Brook University New York

Master of Science in Computer Science; GPA:3.83 Aug. 2014 Dec. 2015
Courses : Operating Systems, Analysis of Algorithms, Parallel Programming, Network Programming,
System Security, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Social Networks .
PES Institute of Technology, Autonomous under VTU Bangalore, India

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science; Major GPA: 8.3/10 Aug. 2008 Dec. 2012
Experience
File Systems and Storage Lab (FSL)- Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York

Graduate Researcher, Advisor: Prof. Erez Zadok Aug 2014 current
Research projects on Operating Systems and Storage. Current Project : Parametric optimization of
storage systems for specific workloads using Genetic Algorithms and Simulated Annealing.
Nutanix San Jose, California

Member of Technical Staff Intern - Core Data Path Team May 2015 Aug 2015
Modified key distributed computing components including the distributed meta-data store, File System,
the configuration management system and infrastructure system; to support a minimum cluster size of 2
nodes (previously 3). Key algorithmic changes in Apache Zookeeper and Apache Cassandra.
Reduced one-node take over time from a couple minutes to less than 20 seconds.
NetApp Bangalore, India
Technical Marketing Engineer June 2012 July 2014
Software Engineer Intern June 2011 June 2012
Worked with NetApp Manageability SDK(APIs) team. Administered developer.netapp.com. Authored
Technical Reports for the SDK. Also developed active storage monitoring and alerting mobile/desktop
applications.

Graduate Research & Projects

Publication : Parametric Optimization of Storage Systems. (HOT-STORAGE 2015)
Erez Zadok, Aashray Arora, Zhen Cao, Akhilesh Chaganti, Arvind Chaudhary, and Sonam Mandal

Published in the proceedings of the 7th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems,
July 6-7, Santa Clara, CA.
Extending JOS kernel functionality

OS, Kernel Programming Aug 2014 Dec 2014
Developed most key operating systems abstractions, memory relocation, management, a rudimentary file
system, and a command shell. Added support to JOS for dynamic loading of kernel modules.
Benchmarking Parallel/Distributed File Systems : Parallel NFS vs GlusterFS

File systems, Performance testing Jan 2015 May 2015
Guide: Prof. Rezaul Chowdary. Bench-marked GlustersFS (and pNFS) on different workloads viz.
sequential read, sequential write, re-read, re-write, random reads, random writes, Strided read, etc.
Classifying tweets as spam or not using Machine Learning

Spam Detection, Supervised Machine Learning - Classification Jan 2015 May 2015
Guide: Prof. Gie Jao. Achieved 96% accuracy with Multinomial Nave Bayes on test data.
Predicting Life Span of famous personalities using Machine Learning

Machine Learning, Scientific Data Analytics, SciPy, NumPy Aug 2014 Dec 2014
Guide: Prof. Steven Skiena. Used Scientific python and ML to predict the death of famous personalities
given their age, life style and health parameters. Used many supervised learning regression methods.
Artificial Intelligence - AI Game Bot

AI, ML, Python Aug 2014 Dec 2014
Implemented Pac-man game using various searching techniques like A* search, Minimax search, etc.
Implemented Sudoku solver, Bayesian network, decision trees (ID3), Nave Bayes and K-means
clustering.

Technical Skills
Algorithms, Data structures, Full-stack, Parallel & Distributed Computing, Operating systems, Storage.
Programming: C, Java, Python, C++, PHP, SQL, Javascript, JSP, HTML, CSS, Unix Shell Scripting.