Summary
Ashwin Alaparthi is a software engineer and MS student at the University of Pennsylvania specializing in distributed systems and next-generation databases, with 11 years of hands-on engineering experience across backend systems and research. He has delivered production-grade services at Nutanix and Pattern—optimizing Java workers and SQL for large datasets and building full-stack integrations including a React Chrome extension—while researching LLM-driven database tooling and cost-efficient embedding pipelines with Prof. Ryan Marcus. His research work includes building PostgreSQL tools that integrate local LLMs to cut inference costs by up to 95% and designing incremental embedding update workflows, reflecting a pragmatic focus on performance and operational efficiency. Comfortable in Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Snowflake, Ruby on Rails, Go, C++ and Rust, he bridges systems research and production engineering and is open to backend or systems roles after graduation. An organizer and mentor in university programming communities, he combines a competitive-programming mindset with measurable impact on query performance and large-scale data workflows.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at PES University
Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Master of Science - MS, Computer and Information Sciences, General at University of Pennsylvania