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Basics

Name Alexander Aghili
Label Computer Science and Mathematics Student
Email [email protected]
Phone +1 (415) 420-9343
Url https://alexanderaghili.com/
Summary Computer Science and Mathematics student interested in computer systems, computer simulations, and aviation.

Education

  • 2022 - 2026

    Santa Cruz, California

    Bachelor of Science
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    Computer Science and Mathematics
    • Partial Differential Equations
    • Operating Systems
    • Computer Architecture
    • Vector Calculus

Work

  • Sep 2022 - Apr 2023
    Head of Software
    PinpointAVL
    Head of Software for student startup developing Automatic Vehicle Tracking (AVL) systems for local buses. Developed embedded C code for Raspberry Pi Pico Multi-Core system with peripheral devices.
    • C Programming
    • Embedded Systems
    • SPI, I2C, UART Protocols
  • Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
    Software Engineering Intern
    appreciate.it
    Developed and optimized API endpoints providing functionality to a core business product. Employed industry-standard tools and practices, including GitHub Actions for efficient CI/CD pipeline management and Jira for comprehensive feature tracking and project management.
    • Rest API
    • Python
    • Jira
  • Feb 2024 - Present
    Undergraduate Researcher
    Storage Systems Research Center - University of California, Santa Cruz
    Utilized Coq for rigorous verification of operating system models. Conducted comprehensive testing of Twizzler operating system written in Rust using Kani model checking.
    • Rust
    • Kani
    • Test-Driven Development
    • Formal Methods

Volunteer

  • Sep 2023 - Present

    Santa Cruz, California

    Lead
    Slugbotics - SOMARS Subteam
    As the lead of slugbotics, I led a team of five building and researching with unmanned aerial vehicles and presenting a proposal on Advanced Air Mobility to a team at NASA Ames Research Center.
  • Apr 2024 - Present

    Santa Cruz, California

    Co-President
    Student Entrepeneurship Club
    As Co-President of SCEE, I organize school-wide events, foster a community of entrepenuers, coordinate with staff to provide opportunities to students, and more!

Certificates

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services Oct 2022
Private Pilot Certificate
Federal Aviation Administration May 2022
Quantum Computing Certificate
Qubit by Qubit June 2021
Supernal Most Innovative Design Award
CITRIS Aviation Prize Organization April 2024

Skills

Technical - Languages
Java
Python
C/C++
Rust
Dart
Bash
Technical - Infrastructure
SQL
AWS Cloud
Linux
Git/Github
Apache Tomcat
Redis
MySQL
Rest
Soft
Project Management
Team Synthesis
Time Management

Interests

High Performance Computing
CXL 3.0 Interconnects
Shared Memory and Message Passing Interface
Accelerators
Computional Fluid Dynamics Simulations
Programming Models
Computer Systems
Operating System Internals
Embedded Systems
Distributed Systems
Formal Verificiation of Safety-Critical Code

Projects

  • May 2021 - Sep 2021
    Public Poll Mobile App
    A Full-Stack Mobile Application for Polling
    • Java Backend
    • Mobile Application
  • - Jul 2021
    LIDAR Distance Network
    Created real-time distance data streaming from a cutting-edge time-of-flight LIDAR sensor to multiple remote clients via a wireless network using C++.
    • LIDAR
    • C++
  • - Mar 2023
    Schmidt-Somoa Cryptography
    Built Schmidt-Samoa public/private key cryptography application that can encrypt and decrypt a message securely, providing end-to-end encryption.
    • Cryptography
    • E2E Encryption
  • - Apr 2023
    Lempel-Ziv-78 Compression
    Program that compresses files using the LZ-78 Compression Algorithm
    • Compression
    • LZ-78