About Me
Hi, I am Nithin Senthil Kumar,
I am a second year Master’s student studying Computer Science at The Ohio State University. I am currently looking for full-time opportunities as a Software Developer.
My Master’s Thesis research is focused around optimizing the performance of GPU to GPU data transfers over Infiniband networks in supercomputers to speed up high performance deep learning applications.
I previously worked at Nutanix for 2 years where I gained expertise working with compute, storage and network infrastructure on Nutanix and VMware platforms.
I believe that the secret to a happy career is to never stop learning, to share your knowledge with your peers and to make time for family, friends and travel.
Skills
Languages
• C++
• C
• Python
• Shell
• Java
• MATLAB
• HTML/CSS
• Javascript
Programming Models
• CUDA
• MPI
• POSIX Threads
• Map Reduce
Frameworks, Libraries and Technologies
• Flask
• React
• Pandas
• Jekyll
• Git
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Socket Programming
• SQL
• AWS
• ESXi
• KVM
• Elasticsearch
• MongoDB
• Hadoop
• Spack(HPC)
• Infiniband
• SAN
• VDI
Education
M.S. in Computer Science, The Ohio State University
Aug 2019 — May 2021 (Expected)
GPA - 4.0/4.0
Academic Excellence Scholarship Recipient (2020-2021)
Courses:
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A
dvanced Operating Systems
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A
lgorithms and Data Structures
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D
ata Mining
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D
eep Learning
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H
igh Performance Computing Systems
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N
etwork Programming
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P
arallel Computing
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P
rogramming Languages
B.E. in Electronics and Communication, R.V. College of Engineering
Aug 2013 — Jun 2017
GPA - 9.04/10.0
Student Placement Coordinator (2016-2017)
Courses:
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A
dvanced Processors
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C
loud Computing
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J
ava and J2EE
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R
eal-Time Operating Systems
C.B.S.E XII Boards, Sri. Kumarans Educational Council
Jun 2011 — Mar 2013
Secured 96.2% - Rank 7
Head Prefect of the School (2012-2013)
I.G.C.S.E, Ipoh International School
Apr 2006 — Jun 2011
8A*, 1A(French)
Highest Mark in the World - Additional Mathematics
Highest Mark in Malaysia - Mathematics
Highest Mark in Malaysia - Aggregate over 9 I.G.C.S.E subjects
Head Prefect of the School (2010-2011)
Experience
Graduate Research Associate, NOWLAB Dept. of CSE, OSU
Apr 2020 — Present
- Currently integrating and optimizing the performance of Nvidia collective communications library(NCCL) into CUDA Aware MPI library - MVAPICH2GDR
- Drove the public launch of Mvapich2-X and Mvapich2-GDR MPI libraries on the HPC package management platform, Spack
- Implemented a benchmark to determine the latency of MPI applications with forked processes
Systems Reliability Engineer - II, Nutanix
Jul 2017 — Jun 2019
- Tech lead of team that won ”Strengthening the Core” @ Nutanix Hackathon 4.0
- Mentored and led the team that designed and developed a web platform [Flask, React, Docker, Elasticsearch] with Salesforce integration to display a live summary of critical alerts and configuration of customers’ clusters.
- Proactively proposed and pioneered automation projects that interfaced with Salesforce, Slack to improve management efficiency.
- Gained expertise in diagnosing and resolving critical performance issues in applications, storage, and networks in production data-center environments.
Engineering Intern, Nutanix
Jan 2017 — Jun 2017
- Deployed a diagnostic dashboard to speed up case resolution times by tracking trends in cluster performance stats.
- Developed and implemented a data extraction and migration tool [PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Java] to make historical records accessible for sales analytics.
Summer Research Fellow, IIT Hyderabad
May 2016 — Jul 2016
- Implemented graph coloring and barrier synchronization solutions to parallelize and tune the performance the Finite Elements Method problem.
- Libraries created were incorporated into Mechanical department projects.