Anna Kornfeld Simpson
Student Researcher at University of Washington
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolAnna Kornfeld Simpson is a Master's student in Computer Science at the University of Washington with a decade of hands-on experience building production systems and engineering education. She has interned at Tesla, Meta, and Microsoft, shipping backend services for payments and CI infrastructure and contributing to high-impact projects like Demikernel where she implemented RDMA connection routing. As Head Teaching Assistant and student researcher she blends engineering with pedagogy—creating autograders that cut grading time dramatically and leading a study on Real-World Problems that applied over 3,000 qualitative codes. Comfortable across full-stack, backend, and systems work, she pairs rigorous statistical analysis and user-facing improvements with a track record of shipping robust, test-covered features.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tesla STEM High School
Github Skills (13)
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typescript10
javascript10
c-language10
typescripts10
cprogramming-language10
rdma10
kernel-mode10
typescript-types10
plugin10
testing9
regex9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
obsidian-tasks-group/obsidian-tasks
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Task management for the Obsidian knowledge base.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Anna has primarily focused on improving the task management features of the Obsidian plugin. They fixed bugs related to parsing tasks within blockquotes and callouts, added unit tests for task untoggling, and addressed issues with cursor positioning after toggling tasks. Additionally, they refactored and optimized code, moving regexes for better testability and trimming whitespace from headings for more accurate grouping. These changes indicate a focus on both feature improvements and code quality.
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microsoft/demikernel
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Kernel-Bypass LibOS Architecture
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits in 27 days
Contributions summary:Anna's contributions center on implementing and integrating an RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) router within the Demikernel LibOS architecture. They added a `rdmacm_router` utility, a key component for managing RDMA connection events. Further commits modified the `rdma_queue` module to utilize this router for event handling, streamlining event processing within the RDMA-based libOS. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving RDMA connection management within the Demikernel architecture.
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