Kay Ousterhout

PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley, Spark Committer

San Francisco Bay AreaComputer Networking

Current

UC Berkeley

Previous

Cloudera, Nicira, Princeton University

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Websites

Personal Website

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Experience

UC Berkeley

PhD Candidate

UC Berkeley

August 2011 – Present (4 years 8 months)

Cloudera

Software Engineering Intern

Cloudera

May 2012 – September 2012 (5 months)

Designed and built low-latency, high-throughput state store for Impala

Nicira

Software Engineering Intern

Nicira

June 2011 – August 2011 (3 months)

Implemented and tested a distributed hash table based on Amazon's Dynamo for use in a production service

Lab Teaching Assistant

Princeton University

September 2010 – May 2011 (9 months)

Assisted introductory computer science students with programming assignments

Google

Software Engineering Intern

Google

June 2010 – September 2010 (4 months)Sydney, Australia

Implemented improvements in production document conversion service used by many core Google products:

· Implemented new features for existing conversion technologies

· Improved core server to be more scalable and robust

Software Engineer in Test Intern

Google

June 2009 – September 2009 (4 months)

· Implemented image processing service for automated UI testing

· Implemented an improved image comparison algorithm for faster image processing based on recent research findings

Software Engineer Intern

Google

June 2008 – September 2008 (4 months)

Developed new code annotation tool using Python and Django, along with corresponding web-based user interface

Education

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

PhD, Computer Science

2011 – 2016

· Supported by a UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellowship

Princeton University

Princeton University

BSE, Computer Science

2007 – 2011

· Graduated summa cum laude in Computer Science

· Phillip Goldman '86 Senior Prize in Computer Science, Spring 2011 (awarded on graduation for outstanding performance in department courses and independent work)

· Computer Science Department Service Award, Spring 2011 (awarded on graduation in recognition of service for the department)

· Accenture Prize in Computer Science, December 2010 (awarded annually by the Computer Science department to one or more 1st-semester seniors in recognition of exceptional academic performance)

· Early Election to Phi Beta Kappa (one of 17 members of the class of 2011 elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the beginning of senior year)

· Tau Beta Pi Member (invited to join in November 2009)

· Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence, September 2008 and September 2009 (recognizes outstanding academic achievement on the part of freshmen and sophomores)

· Pyka Prize, June 2008 (awarded to students who showed the greatest progress in one of the beginning physics courses)

Activities and Societies: Princeton Women in Computer Science (Co-founder), Cap and Gown Club Tech Chair, Web Programmer for the Daily Princetonian

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