Paran Sonthalia

Worked on EQR’s (Equity Quantitative Research) core platform in close collaboration with other QDs and QRs Owned the development of a new job orchestration platform custom built for EQR’s use case backed by Airflow and Kubernetes Developed a brand new service orchestration platform to allow for development of gRPC services from Python files and host them in Kubernetes Migrated all development workspaces to Kubernetes from bare metal.

- Y Combinator Interview Candidate - Y Combinator Startup School grant recipient - 1517 Fund Grant recipient - Cal Hacks Fellowship Team - AMP Accelerator Team - Used at YUM Brands, UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, and UC Davis (more to come) - All tools are built using ReactJS and Firebase

Working on backend written in Python and director of growth in charge of expanding MealMe’s selection of delivery and pickup apps

- Worked with large data sets to automate searching for anomalies - Predicted future outcomes based on past trends - Automated process of uploading data to various AWS services

- Worked to automate releases and run test suites - Coordinated with multiple teams to make sure releases were sent on time - Rewrote code to ship a release to make it more efficient

Working with data for renewable energy and transportation to explore different exploratory statistics using machine learning Researching under Distinguished Professor of Energy, Daniel Kammen Former Science Envoy for the Department of State of the United States

Holding office hours for CS61A - The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (largest class on campus) Assisting students during lab section to help with various questions and problems with the coursework

Working on designing sensors and building test fixtures to make sure the pod is working at maximum efficiency

Develop apps to solve social issues Internship program for high schoolers: Built a team of high school interns and over the course of each summer we built a new project (iOS, Android, and web) from inception to completion Currently working to complete existing projects and starting new ones

Courseware - Fall Semester: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (CS 61A) and Foundations of Data Science (Data 8) Spring Semester: Data Structures (CS 61B) and Designing Information Devices and Systems I (EE16A)