I have lead the ACM Chapter at UMass, one of the largest student tech groups in Western Massachusetts, overlooking 7 clubs, 3 teams and 40 officers.

As the chair, I managed our partnerships, clubs and align everyone with our vision.

I interned with the Apple Maps SRE team over summer 22. I was in the Cupertino office and spent the summer in California.

My main project here was the first single-pane of glass for Maps production. This observability platform sourced data from several differnt services about datacenters, traffic weights, CDNs, deployed services, etc and put it together in a common format where all data connected. This involved a lot of Ruby-on-Rails and Kubernetes; infact we built a Rails framework to support the project.

This was a fun summer of learning, experiencing Apple Park in all its glory and meeting Tim Cook.

I currently work in the infrastructure team at Coursera. This is also where I interned Spring 22.

I work on some data platforms for observability and develop automation scripts to improve the developer experience.

CYE is an NSF research organization helping undeserved and at-risk youth through technology.

 I'm re/design and breaking down our monilithic systems into microservices, managing our cloud resources, packaging software and rickrolling everyone.

I'm a senior at UMass Amherst, double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics with honors.

Did you know, we rank #1 in Campus Dining across the U.S.?

My coursework has spanned from a breadth of CS domains, from OS to NLP, Networks to AI; it's been fun leveraging these learnings in industry.

I was a Full Stack SWE Intern in the Commercial Air Unit where I worked on production features and fixes with other FTEs. All my stuff's live on some major airlines and there's a good chance you've already seen it first hand!

 This is also where I got hands down on cloud architecture and got a chance to become a Pickle.

A native application for making downloads faster and use less data through data-pooling. For N clients on our network, we shard the target into N pieces and compress each client's part of the target, compresses and decompress for Client 0.

The download time and data for Client 0 goes down by N times. The participating users receive credit in exchange for sharing their device's compute, data and storage.

Fast Downloads

This was my first full stack app, where I used Express.js for backend with a React.js frontend and the API and database hosted on GCP's Firebase.

Users have individual accounts and can make posts and comments pretty much like Twitter.

The idea was to preserve all the memories I made with my friends, freshman year, somewhere.

Memories

PyNotes is a Python based CLI which can take notes directly from your terminal.

The application saves all data on a local cache with of 25 notes. The user is able to add, search and delete notes with a wide array of command line options.

PyNotes was built using Click and currently is registered on PyPI. Take it for a spin!

PyNotes

This website is a third iteration and is made using Next.js, a production grade React framework with a lot of benefits such as prerendering and prefetching.

All data is dynamically pulled from JSON files at compile time, making this super fast.

I've used Framer-Motion for most animations which integrates very well with Next.js.

This Website

This is an open source platform for matching teammates to projects using stable marriage. This was a product of COVID 🦠!

I built the pilot with the FERN stack with my team and with great feedback from our beta-testers, we started building the final version.

The current version is built in Rails in collab with DSC UMass, UIUC and NTU and supports Slack-like versioning for each org.

Project Matching

This is my first web app, built with plain HTML, CSS and JS.

I've used simple interactions with DOM to add/remove data from local storage so that the tasks persist in the browser.

Saakshaat Completes

This is my first take on systems programming. I'm building shells in 3 languages:

C: cshell, Rust: rustell, Ruby: rubell.

I also dwelled into writing my own grammer and parsers with Lex and Yacc.

While the main idea is to learn how to interact with systems and get some more experience with these languages, I'm also messing around with pipes and stuff.

Shells

Ah, yes my first project at UMass.

Stocksmith was born from my nascent interests in stocks and ML and their intersecting potential. What started as a web platform evolved to take its final form as a library.

Stocksmith provides packages for techincal, fundamental and sentimental analysis using ML and NLP. This was a collaborative effort between ACM ML and Google DSC at UMass.

Stocksmith

Platform for matching UMass students with each other based on shared interests.

Being remote is socially difficult and it's hard to meet people. U-Match tries to ease this.

It uses stable-marriage to match users with the similar properties such as year in school, dorms and interests in music. The backend is built with FastAPI, a Python based REST framework and the application is hosted using AWS EC2, RDS and Cognito.

Hi, I'm Saak

What am I doing?