Onkar Deshpande Email & Phone Number

Stanford, Ca, Us

Mountain View, California, United States

Projects:1. Compression-over-GPUs* Developed and presented proof-of-concept high throughput compression over GPUs using NVComp library from Nvidia.* Optimized and evaluated zStd compression over GPU. Achieved up to 3x throughput while maintaining compression ratio.2. Apache Spark query optimization over parquet files* Profiled multiple Spark queries run on a parquet dataset to find the relationship between parquet parameters and query performance.* Implemented optimizations in source code of Apache Spark and Parquet-java to avoid unnecessary copying of string data.* Improved throughput up to 20\% and memory requirement by up to 40\% for queries running on parquet files holding string data.3. Databricks integration for Granica data safety solution* Integrated existing Granica data safety solution with Databricks Metastore to allow scans based on customer defined policies.* Automated scanning of Databricks Metastore using a custom Unity catalog monitoring solution.* Presented a working technical demo to a Databricks team which cleared the technical validation for the integration solutionAdditionally, Presented multiple latest research papers and led their discussion in company wide technical talks.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked in the cloud workload protection team to develop multiple features and handled multiple on-call and customer found incidents.Major projects:1. Azure SQL Protection* Developed a persistent backup solution for Azure SQL offerings using Change Data Capture to repair inconsistent backups.* Worked on periodic integrity check of database and its configuration as well as the automatic alerting system to the customer.2. Customer Cost Estimating Tool for Sales* Received recognition award for complete ownership of the tool and it's revamp which included several discussions with all stakeholders.* Studied backup solutions for all Cloud-native workloads and conducted experiments to ensure confidence in provided estimates.* Completely revamped the backend from scratch with modular and extensible code patterns and enabled the entire team to contribute.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1. Automated Tag Based Protection* Built an automated system to discover and protect various cloud-native workloads based on resource tags and customer-defined rules.* Complete ownership of the feature along with its automated tests which helped uncover multiple unrelated bugs in the product.

Braunschweig Area, Germany

Created a tool for Liveness Verification of Concrete Broadcast Networks. It is based on Kleene fixed point iteration and work ins polynomial time. Also, solved and implemented a tool for the symbolic case

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

1. HotStuff: Fast Scalable BFT consensus with Prof. David Mazieres * Implemented a large scale Byzantine fault tolerant consensus.

Bachelor Of Technology, Computer Science, 9.78/10

Activities and Societies: Teaching Assistant for Quantum Physics and Application course(PH 107) Teaching Assistant for Logic in Computer.

Education record

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Elected Headboy: Responsible for smooth execution of various Intra and Inter school events. Student.