Aatish Nayak

Rental Cars, Delivered On-Demand

• Planned, scoped, and engineered the implementation of GPS devices in cars to track location and gather telematics data via live ops dashboards
• Designed a general purpose pipeline to gather engagement metrics for Skurt Drivers for reward and incentive programs
• Revamped Customer Support processes by streamlining handling of customer issues via a custom phone line solution built with Twilio Voice
• Used Checkr, CBC, and TLO APIs to gather data to train a Logistic Regression model to determine the riskiness of renters

• Worked on the Emerging Markets Growth team improving cash payments to increase rider retention and engagement in India, SEA, and LatAm
• Designed and engineered the creation of a more cohesive receipt experience for cash payments released to ~40+ cities and ~700k DAU
• Contributed to Node, Python, and Go microservices while optimizing indexes on the in-house Postgres + NoSQL hybrid database

• Led a team of students working on a platform for autograding and managing programming homework assignments.
• Decide on product goals and technical architecture affecting over 4,000 students at CMU with expansion trials in University of Washington, VCU, Rutgers University, PKU, Cornell University, among many others.
• Presented at SIGCSE on improving Computer Science Education through autograding technologies

Coursework: Operating System Design and Implementation

, Embedded Real-Time Systems

, Parallel and Sequential Data Structures and Algorithms

, Computer Systems

, How People Work (HCI)

Architected and wrote a Unix based operating system to run on x86 hardware. Custom implemented virtual memory, a physical frame manager, a round-robin scheduler, context switching, and a user-level thread library. Successfully runs a zsh shell and mimics a file system to launch user level programs.