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Savvy Raghuvanshi

Systems Engineer
Harvard Class of 2022, CS + Math

SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer

Since Jun 2022 | React, Typescript, Python, SQL
Farallon Capital Management

  • ~ Built an internal platform (team of 4) to improve investment research and decision-making

Backend Lead and Systems Engineer

Aug 2020 — May 2022 | Go, Python, C/C++
Whist (now defunct)

  • ~ Redesigned the distributed web backend for horizontal scalability and led a team of 5 to implement it over a period of three months

    ~ Architected, implemented, and maintained multiple core production backend services

Personal Projects

Since Apr 2017 | Shell, Go, Postgres, Node.js

Teaching Fellow for Systems Programming (CS 61)

Fall 2019 | Harvard University

Software Engineering Intern

May 2017 – June 2017 | Python, MongoDB
Harvard Clean Energy Project, Aspuru-Guzik Lab

SELECTED ACCOLADES

Co-Captain of Powerlifting Team

Sept 2019 - Jan 2022 | Harvard University

Robert Fletcher Rogers Prize (link ↗)

2020 | Harvard Mathematics Department

Top 10% Placement

2016 | William Lowell Putnam Competition

International Silver Medal (link ↗)

2015 | Dongrun-Yau Science Awards in Mathematics

NOTABLE RESEARCH PROJECTS

Alto: Lightweight VMs using Virtualization-aware Managed Runtimes

May 2019 – June 2020 | C/C++, Lua, Shell
Profs. Eddie Kohler and Minlan Yu, Harvard University

~ Integrated the PicoTCP user-level networking stack into the Alto runtime, enabling fast snapshot and restore of VMs. Also added limited networking event-driven capabilities to Alto

~ Implemented seccomp system call filters to isolate client code. Significantly reduced the set of required system calls, exposing a tiny attack surface compared to Docker

~ Redesigned the Alto hypervisor so client code would no longer run with root privileges

FontBlocker Browser Extension

Oct 2019 – Feb 2020 | Javascript
Prof. James Mickens, Harvard University

~ Closed a font-based fingerprinting side channel in Google Chrome, improving both blocking performance and end-user experience compared to previous font-based fingerprinting blockers

EDUCATION

Harvard University

2022 | B.A., Computer Science, Mathematics Secondary

  • Operating Systems
  • Performance Engineering
  • Security
  • Compilers
  • Quant Finance
  • Distributed Systems