Bwak! #

My name’s Adithya, and I’m a CS grad student at the Johns Hopkins University. I like working on stuff that doesn’t involve mindless key hammering, and mostly involves wiping tears from my eyes at 3 AM in the night while praying to a god that I don’t believe in.

Presently, I’m researching on emergent contextual sparsity in Transformers, at The Burns Lab, under Dr. Randal Burns. I’m also working with Ben and the team to build MapApp, a tool to revolutionize location-based data management for non technical users like real estate agents, political candidates, schools and churches.

In Fall 2024, I worked on simulating microbursts caused by elephant flows in Meta’s Data Center Networks at HopNets, under Dr. Soudeh Ghorbani.

Before Hopkins, I’ve worked as an SDE in a super new Data Engineering team at Bajaj Markets. A benefit of joining the team early was that I got to work on a foundational unified framework for data transformation and all of the bells and whistles that come with it.

Before that job of mine, I was the President of the Open Source Community at my University, having run over 30+ events, 3 CTFs and 2 Seasons of Code. (Well, I was the team lead for the first SoC and we won it, so maybe that doesn’t count)

I like talking to people and I love it when connected components mix well together like cogs in a machine. I’m a professional at pestering people with ideas that I’ve been thinking about or stuff I’ve learnt recently.

I’m also a big fan of trying new stuff and I’ve decided that at some point, I will go skydiving, drifting, snowboarding, and surfing. Not all at once because that’s either impossible or dumb.

Finally, this website was made using Hugo & Congo, because they have a beautiful blog setup and I wanted to share my thoughts on stuff via a visually appealing front.

So far as introductions go, I hope that was half-decent. If not, I’m playing The Legend of Heroes series since the past few months, I can ice-skate now and maybe my resume might help for more serious stuff.