Ved Kommalapati

Experience

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  Oneiro Innovation

  Aug 2020 - May 2023

  Co-Founder and Co-President of Oneiro Illinois

  Ran an organization that provides 70+ students across Illinois access to Business, Health Science, and Law resources.Hosted annual research competition, awarding 3 teams job shadowing, mentorship, and internship opportunities.

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  STEM Kids

  Jun 2021 - May 2022

  Director Of Web Development

  Responsible for updating and maintaining our website to better display opportunities to students across theworld. Helped plan programs for future years and tutored older users using STEM Kids for ACT/SAT Prep. Worked with HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and WordPress as lead developer of student-led non-profit

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  National Center for Supercomputing Applications

  Jun 2021 - Feb 2022

  Migrated Parsl monitoring to runinfo, providing users access to execution times, thread/core usage, and dependency data. Filtered block messages, eliminating redundant alerts and minimizing monitoring storage footprint by 20x.Debugged issues within Parsl to improve the usability of the library in collaboration with the University of Chicago. Developed the Efficiency Evaluator for Parallel Scripting (EEPS), and researched parallel computing through Parsl.Provided researchers 2 workflow personalized visualizations, highlighting cost vs. time for various thread configurations.Presented EEPS at Parsl and funcX Fest 2021 with about 80 attendees from academia, national laboratories, and industry.

  • Software Engineer Intern

    Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

  • Research Intern

    Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
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  State Farm

  May 2022 - May 2024

  Created a decentralized insurance product offering more transparency, less fraud, and no central mediator.Engineered a full-stack tool by leveraging Ethereum smart contracts, enabling policy creation, payments, and payouts.Established an Oracle, providing the smart contracts access to real-time policyholder data.Implemented an ML virtual assistant to provide agents tailored recommendations to grow online presence via social media. Configured CRON job scheduler, enabling policy archival to optimize data storage (200+ GB saved).Developed the Archive Search Tool, enabling policy retrieval by vin/policy number, state, data flow, source, and date-range.Participated in Hack Day 2022 and received Sponsorship from Executive Mike FieldsPlaced 4th in State Farm AWS Deepracer 2022

  • RDC Software Engineer Intern

    Aug 2022 - May 2024

  • Software Engineer Intern

    May 2022 - Aug 2022
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  National Center for Supercomputing Applications

  Aug 2022 - now

  SPIN Intern

  Engineered funcXVisualize - web app highlighting funcX user, endpoint, function, and task data.Optimized database schema through indexes, groups, and subtables to shorten query times by 100x.Implemented Parsl to construct visualizations and process data in parallel, yielding 16x faster performance.Created 28 visualizations/tables that highlight task/function organization, runtimes, queuetimes, and funcX usage trends.

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  Zero2One VC

  Sept 2022 - May 2023

  Outreach Committee Executive

  Executed campus-wide events, conducted workshops, and offered resources to 100+ student entrepreneurs. Led partnership with ENTRECorps to provide 50+ venture directors with on-demand consulting services. Coordinated Demo Day and the Inspiration Fair 2023 in collaboration with fellow start-up incubators.

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  Illinois CS Sail

  Jan 2023 - Apr 2024

  Web Team Developer
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  Susquehanna International Group, LLP (SIG)

  Mar 2023 - Mar 2023

  Sophomore Discovery Day

  Explored the fundamentals of high-frequency trading and the significance of low-latency systems and networks.Engaged in collaborative code review sessions with SIG Engineers and Traders and discussed algorithmic design decisions.

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  Meta Frazo

  Sept 2023 - now

  Machine Learning Engineer
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  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Jan 2024 - now

  Undergraduate Course Assistant (CS 225)

  Data Structures and Algorithms

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  Illini Blockchain

  Jan 2024 - now

  Developer
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  Capital One

  Apr 2024 - now

  Incoming Software Engineering Intern