about
Hi! I’m Kush. I graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in May 2022 with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering specializing in Data Science and Information Processing.
Over my time at UT, I worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Socially Intelligent Machines Lab with Professor Andrea Thomaz, was a part of the Punjabbawockeez and helped organize HackTX with Freetail Hackers.
I was also a a co-host of the Talking Robotics seminar series.
I’m currently a Production Engineer at Meta learning how to build secure, performant and reliable infrastructure for platforms that serve billions of people daily.
employment
2022 - present
Senior Production Engineer
Building a hyperscale GPU fleet on the Edge to support Reality Labs and Meta AI
Summer 2021
Production Engineering intern
Built an end-to-end load testing system for Facebook Live infrastructure that can handle large scale traffic at high QPS in Rust
2021 - 2022
Software Engineering intern
Using Python and ROS to build new features for Moxi, a socially aware humanoid robot
2018 - 2022
Research Assistant
Researched audio-augmented Imitation Learning and implemented object recognition algorithms under Dr. Andrea Thomaz.
publications
IROS 2022
HRI 2021 - Workshop