Aditya Chopra
CS Grad Student @ CMU | prev @ D.E. Shaw, Nutanix
Pursuing a career in design, databases and distributed systems ✨
What am I up to?
CMU Database GroupMemberJan 2026 - PresentPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Working on cardinality and cost-estimation for an experimental query optimizer.
D.E. ShawSWE (I & II)Jul 2023 - Jun 2025Hyderabad, India
- Built a pipeline & dashboard, to track & analyze, internal compute & storage cluster's usage metrics.
- Pioneered effort to evaluate, benchmark and setup an internal data warehouse (ClickHouse).
- Deployed internship work.
NutanixSWE InternJan 2023 - Jun 2023Bengaluru, India
- Linked unpredictable customer performance issues to memory bandwidth saturation via systematic workload analysis.
- Reproduced intermittent latency issues using stress tests simulating customer I/O workloads from storage and network.
Max Planck Institute for Software SystemsVisiting Scholar, Research Fellow under Dr. Adish SinglaAug 2022 - Jan 2023Saarbrücken, Germany
- Replicated results from paper (arxiv:2207.14722), optimizing implementation to compute higher order gradients.
- Iterated and improved training times from 72hrs+ to 3hrs.
D.E. ShawSummer InternMay 2022 - Jul 2022Hyd, India
- Developed web-app to track alt. financial data with configurable alerts, eliminating manual workflows.
Happiest MindsConsultant InternJun 2021 - Jul 2021Bengaluru, India
- Developed Deep RL models (DDPG, TD3, SAC) for supply chain optimization using PyTorch and Ray RlLib.
- Achieved 34.5% higher returns compared to industry standard baselines.