Dev

PhD Candidate
Center For Research in Storage and Systems
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Baskin School of Engineering
University of California, Santa Cruz

dpuranda@ucsc.edu · dev@sincerely.dev

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🏰  Research overview

I am a PhD candidate in the Computer Science department at University of California Santa Cruz. My research interests lie in storage systems, operating systems and distributed systems, and programming languages. I am working on updated data structures and data management techniques for modern flash storage. My advisor is Dr. Ethan L. Miller.

⚙️  Industry

• Architecture Enabling Intern, SOLAB
  SK Hynix America Inc. -- June - September 2019
  Worked with the SOLAB team in the memory systems research division on cold storage, flash, and CEPH. Awarded MVP for Septmeber 2019.
• Engineering Intern
  Riverbed Inc. -- June - September 2017
  Worked with the protocols team to improve stats collection and aggregation.

👨🏾‍🏫  Teaching

I've been a Teaching Assistant for the following courses at UC Santa Cruz:

• CSE 180 Database Systems I -- Shel Finkelstein -- Fall '21, Winter '22
• CSE 134 Embedded Operating Systems -- Ethan L. Miller -- Spring '21
• CMPS 182 Introduction to Database Management Systems -- Shel Finkelstein -- Spring '18
• CMPS 12A, CMPS 11, CMPS 10 Introduction to Programming -- Dustin Adams -- Spring '17 - Winter '18

🛠️  Service

I am an organizer of the !!Con West conferences of ten-minute talks on the joy, excitement, and surprise of computing.

🏡  Publications

• Analysis and Workload Characterization of the CERN EOS Storage System.
  Devashish R. Purandare, Daniel Bittman, Ethan L. Miller.
  CHEOPS 2022
• Append is Near: Log-based Data Management on ZNS SSDs.
  Devashish R. Purandare, Pete Wilcox, Heiner Litz, Shel Finkelstein.
  CIDR 2022

📕  Dissertation and Reports

• Master's Project: Trace Analysis of Large Scale Storage Systems.
  June 2018.

🏚  Older drafts

These papers are not being actively worked on and may be in disrepair.

• Performance Improvement of Hybrid Content Based Image Retrieval.
  Devashish Purandare, Prashant Kumar, Amol Rokade.
  Draft, May 2016.
• The Systems of Instant Messaging.
  Devashish Purandare.
  Draft, December 2016.

🎤  Talks

• Append is Near: Log-based Data Management on ZNS SSDs.
  • Intel Labs, June 24, 2021.
  • LSD Labs Seminar, January 06, 2022.
  • CIDR 2022, Santa Cruz, CA, January 10, 2022.
  • Salesforce Database Group and hyPer team, February 16, 2022.
  • CSE 215 Data Management, February 21, 2022.
• Trace Analysis of Large Scale Storage Systems.
  • CHEOPS 2022, Rennes, France, April 05, 2022

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