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 Transformer LLMs, at The Burns Lab, under Dr. Randal Burns. I’m also working on building Weit, an assisted nutrition tracking experience for diet-conscious folk who find traditional macro tracking to be a lot of work.

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 and everything works 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, well, I hit Ascendant 1 in Valorant around 2 years ago, I can ice-skate now and maybe my resume might help for more serious stuff.