Arun Drelich


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Work Experience

Software Engineer Pylon Lending

NYC

Implemented a declarative DSL for mixed-integer optimization across borrower, customer and lender constraints. Integrated backend services with third parties.


Software Engineer Instabase

SF + NYC

Productionized in-house model training of Transformer-based document understanding models.


Research Engineer Intern Vision Systems

Providence, RI

Engineered an information extraction pipeline on web texts to inform dynamic computer vision algorithm selection.


Research Intern Los Alamos National Lab

Los Alamos, NM

Collaborated on Katana.jl, an open-source solver for convex non-linear programs.


Undergraduate Research Brown University

Providence, RI

Research project addressing some of the issues that arise when applying statistical part-of-speech taggers to Sanskrit, a highly inflected language with sparsely-available data.


Data Analyst Intern TradingScreen

NYC

Worked on model for order-filling futures using level-2 data.


Intern Madbits/Twitter

NYC

Contributed to Async – an open-source, asynchronous framework for Lua and Torch. Worked on a project using convolutional neural networks for image classification.

Skills

Python ◦ Typescript ◦ Golang ◦ C++ ◦ Rust

Kubernetes ◦ RabbitMQ/Celery ◦ Pytorch ◦ NodeJS

Academic Experience

Head Teaching Assistant

Graduate seminar on Computational Semantics. Developed assignments, tutorials, course website and grading infrastructure. Held office hours and managed staff. Topics included: semantic parsing, contextual embeddings, neural sentence representations. [course website].


Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Held weekly office and lab hours, graded student projects and developed course materials.


Avionics Firmware Brown Space Engineering

Brown Space Engineering's cubesat group developed the EQUiSat satellite, which deployed May 2018.

  • Design of sensor and computer systems, sensor drivers.
  • Design and execution of a comprehensive testing plan for the EQUiSat satellite, to ensure the integrity of the on-board computer systems.