Abhishek Bhardwaj Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- I invest in and support startups led by bold, innovative founders, focusing on areas where I have deep technical expertise. Reach out if you want to inquire about roles or using their products.- Current: e2b.dev

San Francisco Bay Area

-1 to 0 explorations around - - LLM powered developer tools - Sandboxes for AI agents

I work with Cocoa Ventures in the following capacity -- Vet inbound opportunities in the AI and Infrastructure domains doing thorough technical and competitive analysis.- Help Cocoa founders with technical advice.- Find outstanding founders to back.This collaboration started with a Hacker News comment :)

San Francisco Bay Area

- Implemented a new reverse WebSockets proxy k8s service that proxies all client connections to their containers. Handles 1M WAUs and 20M DAUs. Helped achieve 3 9s reliability- TL for new microVM based sandboxes for user code. Using cloud-hypervisor VMs on top of GCP bare metal servers at scale. Implementing Rust based emulated devices. Setup IAC to manage and auto scale bare metal GCP MIGs in our regional clusters.- Implemented a sidecar process on our VMs for chunking and embedding user code to support RAG based code chat.- Implemented Redis based caching to prevent GCS operation rate limiting under load. Resulted in 5% monthly GCS cost savings.- Implemented an Operational Transform persistence layer to persist user edits in the container to GCS.

San Francisco Bay Area

- 500+ contributions to the Chrome browser, Chrome OS, and AOSP.- Engineer on Rust-based "crosvm", a VMM to run Virtual Machines on Chrome OS. Helped enable secure Linux developer environments ("Project Crostini") and enhance appeal for developers.- Designed and implement features in "concierge" (C++), a daemon that manages Virtual Machines on all Chromebooks.- Improved Android emulator boot time on Chrome OS by 30% through 'perf kvm' profiling and VMEXITS reduction. Reduced development time for the Android Auto team.",- Implemented Meltdown and Spectre security mitigations with runtime checks, securing millions of Chromebooks from these vulnerabilities.

San Francisco Bay Area

- Founding engineer on "ARC++", leveraging Linux containers to bridge the app gap on Chrome OS by supporting Android applications.- Led implementation of 30+ Android APIs, enabling compatibility with Android M, N, and P Networking and Power stacks on Chrome OS.- Implemented wake up alarm APIs for Chrome and Chrome OS, enabling app-triggered resume functionality for Chromebooks and Chrome OS kiosks.- Implemented wake lock APIs on Chrome OS, enabling apps to prevent device suspension and support critical OS updates when the devices are sleeping.- Designed and implemented a "cron" like OS update policy system in Chrome and Chrome OS, enabling automatic wake-up and application of critical updates. Used in Chromebooks and Kiosks.

Redmond

- Implemented Windows kernel features to make unmodified Linux binaries work seamlessly on Windows. - Implemented VFS inode caching to support "DriveFS" - file sharing between Windows and Linux programs.

Redmond

- Founding engineer on the OS team for Microsoft's first fitness watch- The Microsoft Band. The OS powered 500K+ devices.- Implemented core OS features from 0-to-1 -Scheduler, Sensor Power Manager, Firmware Updater.- Designed and implemented Sensor, Display, Backlight, and Button UX. Gratend patent for the sensor power manager implementation.- Designed and implemented the communication protocol for streaming sensor data between the watch and the mobile app. The protocol supported both USB and Bluetooth.

Redmond

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical And Computer Engineering, 3.81 / 4.00

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Instrumentation And Control, 3.90 / 4.00

Education record