Kunal Sareen
PHD Candidate
Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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Top SchoolKunal Sareen is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University researching how to make memory management on mobile devices—particularly Android—more efficient, working with leaders like Prof. Steve Blackburn and Sara Hamouda. With around five years of experience spanning research, teaching, and industry, he blends programming language implementation, performance evaluation, and low-level hardware perspectives. He contributed to ART garbage collection investigations during a Google research stint and ported low-overhead tracing tools to Android, demonstrating practical systems impact. Outside academia he improved build and test automation for a lightweight native language project on GitHub, showing a knack for reliable release engineering. Kunal’s profile uniquely combines rigorous research with hands-on tooling and automation skills that accelerate reproducible systems experimentation.
5 years of coding experience
Australian National University
Github Skills (11)
compiler10
bash10
compiler-compiler10
cicd10
testing10
c178
c118
makefile7
webassembly7
github-ci6
githubaction-workflow6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
titzer/virgil
Jul 2020 - Dec 2022
A fast and lightweight native programming language
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:65 reviews, 25 commits, 32 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kunal primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and automating the build process. They added scripts to check differences in bootstrapped binaries, including `test/check-bootstrap.bash` and `test/compare.bash`. Additionally, the user implemented a test progress printer in C, enhancing the test output and providing more informative feedback during test execution. This demonstrates a focus on improving the reliability and automation of the project's build and test pipelines.
garbage-collectionnativesystem-programmingwebassemblycompiler
k-sareen/mmtk-core
Dec 2020 - Mar 2025
Memory Management ToolKit
Contributions:287 pushes, 93 branches in 4 years 3 months
memory-managementmemorywindowslinuxtriggers
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