Naman Sood

FreeBSD Foundation

Incoming Software Developer Intern Kitchener, ON

data.world

Software Engineer Intern Austin, TX

• Spearheaded Databricks and Apache Spark support in Java-based data catalog service by integrating JDBC database drivers.
• Boosted user productivity in code editing workspace by generating autocompletions for RDF classes and properties.
• Delivered key usability improvements to code workspace in areas like error visibility and autogeneration of code snippets.
• Refined syntax highlighting for SPARQL queries by improving regular expressions used to parse language constructs.

Carta

Software Engineer Intern, Infrastructure Kitchener, ON

• Designed distributed gRPC logging system using Apache Fluent for scalable auditing and compliance across organization.
• Created proof-of-concept for logging system using Kubernetes DaemonSets, with ConfigMaps to deploy custom configurations.
• Enforced standardization of Protobuf definitions for over 300 microservices by designing static analysis tool in Go.
• Optimized build times by 10x for Docker images by simplifying package requirements to allow precompiled dependencies.
• Improved system availability by identifying and removing bottlenecks in Redis server connections in Python library.

Tailscale

Software Engineer Intern Toronto, ON

• Introduced cloud/serverless support by emulating TCP/IP stack in userspace for Docker containers, using Google gVisor.
• Enabled standardized communication using SOCKS5 protocol over Tailscale VPN by implementing proxy server in Go.
• Simplified deployments in cloud environments by creating single-session authentication keys with auto-cleanup.
• Developed a GitHub Action for end-users that allows plug-and-play security for CI/CD pipelines.
• Expanded outreach within the technical community by writing long-form content for corporate blog.

University of Waterloo

Research Associate Waterloo, ON

• Optimized Go consensus system to 3x throughput by increasing maximum transaction count sent in each message.
• Streamlined deployment of project by using Docker images to generate repeatable builds across diverse environments.
• Unified similar codebases by migrating duplicate components to a single C++ project.
• Assisted distributed systems research by conducting experiments on AWS EC2 and analyzing performance data in gnuplot.

The Girl Code

Volunteer Full Stack Developer New Delhi, India

• Developed online platform to interactively teach programming in 10+ workshops across 3 countries using NodeJS.