# Ashutosh Sundresh

> Computer Science student at UCLA, open-source developer, and Kleiner Perkins Fellow. Building at the intersection of systems programming, mobile OS, and developer tooling.

## About

Ashutosh Sundresh is a BS Computer Science student at the University of California, Los Angeles (2024–2028).

- Email: ashutoshsundresh@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/AshutoshSundresh
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashutoshsundresh
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/AshutoshSundresh
- Website: https://ashutoshsundresh.com

## Work Experience

### Software Engineering Intern at Brain Co.
- **Period**: Jun 2026 - Sep 2026
- **Link**: https://brain.co/
- AI Platform Team, first early career hire on the team

### Undergraduate Researcher at UCLA Programmable Software Systems Lab
- **Period**: Feb 2026 - Present
- **Link**: https://angelhof.github.io/programmable-software-systems-lab.html
- Advised by Prof. Konstantinos Kallas, JVM runtime systems and serverless infrastructure

### Software Engineering Intern at Harvey
- **Period**: Jun 2025 - Sep 2025
- **Link**: https://harvey.ai/
- Embedded Experience Team, joined as part of the first ~60 engineers, agentic workflows architecture for Harvey's Microsoft Word add-in
- Built workflow automation engine with composable Python blocks, React factory rendering, and Word Office.js integration
- Engineered real-time LLM suggestions system with SSE-based queueing, git-style diffs for Office.js, and granular apply/undo
- Built block-based execution engine with type-safe streaming of heterogeneous outputs (suggestions, text, files), workflow schema validation, streaming abort propagation, and Sentry/Datadog instrumentation
- Designed rubric-based SxS LLM evaluations with Legal Researchers and a Streamlit app to benchmark drafting quality

### Software Engineering Intern at Skylow
- **Period**: Jul 2024 - Sep 2024
- **Link**: https://skylow.ai/
- Founding Team (joined as part of the first ~5 engineers) at seed-stage LLM social platform out of Berkeley I&E / ACE@Berkeley
- Built a high-performance RAG pipeline with Pinecone vector search, achieving 90%+ retrieval accuracy under 0.2s latency
- Engineered social simulation system with LLM-driven personalities and vector-based memory for 10,000+ virtual characters
- Reduced NSFW content in the social media feed and user data by 98% via batch-processed AWS Rekognition
- Set up Sentry exception monitoring and PostHog event tracking to analyze user session flows and frontend error patterns

### Lead Software Engineer / Founder at ShapeShiftOS
- **Period**: May 2020 - Apr 2024
- **Link**: https://shapeshiftos.com/
- Open-source award-winning Android-based mobile operating system with a highly customizable user interface and unique features
- Developed features including custom kernel scheduler, under-screen fingerprint scanner animations and icons, system theming engine based on color-palettes, Google Lens integration in screenshot tool, dynamic TrueType lockscreen clock, upstream contributions to Google Material Components, etc.
- Grew to 160,000+ downloads across 160+ countries organically with no marketing budget
- Recruited talented engineering team consisting of 25+ Qualcomm device engineers and 3 core developers
- Received SourceForge Open Source Excellence Award (top 0.5% of open-source projects)

## Awards & Recognition

### Undergraduate
- **USACO Gold** (2026), USA Computing Olympiad
- **Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow** (2025), Kleiner Perkins (1 of 30) — Out of 3,000+ applicants
- **Upsilon Pi Epsilon Inductee** (2025), UCLA Computer Science
- **UCLA Merit Scholarships** (2024-2028), UCLA
- **William F. Sharpe Technology Fellow** (2025), UCLA Alumni

### High School
- **Linguistics Olympiads** (2023), IIIT Hyderabad (Top 25 in India)
- **Regional Asian Math Olympiads** (2023-2024), undefined (Multiple Medals)
- **Open Source Excellence and Community Leader** (2023), SourceForge File Hosting (160,000+ downloads)
- **XDA Recognized Developer** (2021), undefined (Top 300) — Out of 11 million users
- **Board Exam Excellence** (2022-2024), Central Board of Secondary Education (99.2% in Grade 10, 97% in Grade 12)

### Standardized Tests
- **SAT Perfect Math Score** (2023), The College Board (1580) — 800 Math, 780 Verbal
- **TOEFL Excellence** (2023), ETS (119/120) — Top 1% globally

## Education

### University of California, Los Angeles
- **Degree**: BS in Computer Science
- **Period**: 2024 - 2028
- **GPA**: 3.85/4.00 GPA
- **Honors**: Dean's Honors List
- **Courses**: CS 1 Freshman Computer Science Seminar (Fall 2024); MATH 32A Calculus of Several Variables (Fall 2024); CS 31 Introduction to Computer Science I (Fall 2024); LING 1 Introduction to Study of Language (Fall 2024); ENG 1ML Introduction to Engineering Design: Machine Learning (Winter 2025); CS 32 Introduction to Computer Science II (Winter 2025); PHYSICS 1A Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Mechanics (Winter 2025); CS 35L Software Construction (Spring 2025); CS 33 Introduction to Computer Organization (Spring 2025); EDUC 10 Introduction to Educational Issues and Scholarship (Spring 2025); ENG 1RK Introduction to Engineering Design: Rockets (Spring 2025); MATH 33A Linear Algebra and Applications (Fall 2025); CS M51A Logic Design of Digital Systems (Fall 2025); MATH 32B Calculus of Several Variables (Fall 2025); PHYSICS 1B Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Oscillations, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Fields (Fall 2025); MATH 61 Introduction to Discrete Structures (Winter 2025); CS 111 Operating Systems Principles (Winter 2026); CS 174A Introduction to Computer Graphics (Winter 2026); CS 188 Special Courses in Computer Science: Introduction to Robotics (Winter 2026); MATH 170E Introduction to Probability and Statistics 1: Probability (Winter 2026); CS 180 Introduction to Algorithms and Complexity (Spring 2026); CS 188 Special Courses in Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence for Human Interaction (Spring 2026); ECE C247B (Graduate) Neural Networks and Deep Learning II (Spring 2026); PHYSICS 1C Physics for Scientists and Engineers: Electrodynamics, Optics, and Special Relativity (Spring 2026)

### Brown University
- **Degree**: Brown Systems Week
- **Period**: 2026
- **GPA**: undefined
- **Honors**: Cohort of 25 participants; sponsored by NSF, Google, and Amazon
- **Topics**: eBPF and Kernel Extensions, GPU Performance Modeling, Supply-Chain Security, Formal Reasoning for Systems, Rust Privacy Analysis

### Shiv Nadar School
- **Degree**: undefined
- **Period**: 2021 - 2024
- **GPA**: 10.0/10.0 CGPA
- **Honors**: Valedictorian, AP Scholar with Distinction
- **Topics**: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, English

## Projects

### ShapeShiftOS
- **Tech**: Java, C, Go, Smali, Make
- **Link**: https://github.com/shapeshiftos
- **Stats**: Downloads: 160,000+, Countries: 160+, Stars: 50+, Open-Source Projects (SourceForge): Top 0.5%
- An open-source Android-based mobile operating system for Qualcomm devices in 2020 and have maintained it since. Shipped custom kernel scheduler, under-screen fingerprint scanner animations and icons, system theming engine based on color-palettes, Google Lens integration in screenshot tool, dynamic TrueType lockscreen clock, and upstreamed code to Google Material Components.

### MiniR (Embedded R-Like Programming Language)
- **Tech**: C++20
- **Link**: https://github.com/AshutoshSundresh/MiniR-Holly-Hock2
- A from-scratch R-like interpreter and REPL intended for Casio fx-CP400 family of calculators, including a custom lexer, expression parser, and evaluator that support R-style vectors, matrices, data.frames, subsetting, recycling rules, NA/NaN/Inf semantics, and many core builtins. Designed a compact runtime with attribute-aware values and lightweight containers tuned for constrained embedded environments, plus a simple desktop CLI/REPL interface that can also be embedded as a library.

### ResumeIDE (LaTeX Desktop Editor)
- **Tech**: Rust, Tokio, Tauri, TypeScript
- **Link**: https://github.com/AshutoshSundresh/latex-resume-editor
- A desktop LaTeX resume editor with live PDF preview using React 19 and Tauri 2. Implemented async Rust backend for real-time LaTeX compilation, Monaco Editor integration with syntax highlighting, system requirement detection with guidance, and cross-platform desktop deployment with native performance.

### 3D First-Person Pac-Man
- **Tech**: Three.js, TypeScript, Vite
- **Link**: https://github.com/AshutoshSundresh/three-js-first-person-pacman
- A 3D first-person Pac-Man game with dual-camera rendering (main view + minimap) in a single render pass. Implemented post-processing pipeline with dynamic bloom effects, procedural environment maps for real-time reflections, spatial audio, and ghost AI with pathfinding across multiple behavioral states.

### Bibliotheque (Library Management System)
- **Tech**: PostgreSQL, Supabase, Next.js, TypeScript
- **Link**: https://github.com/Ashutosh-s-Test-Dumpster/library-management
- A real-time library management platform achieving <50ms search latency. Implemented secure auth with row-level access control, admin dashboard, and concurrent CRUD operations.

## Interests

### Fashion
I mix-match a lot of different styles. Currently I own stuff (sweaters, jackets, jeans, etc.) from brands like A-Cold-Wall*, We11done, Diesel, Carhartt WIP, Stussy, Bluorng, Yitai, Almost Gods, Bape, Human Made, Derschutze, Fear of God, Marni, etc.

### Games
I’ve worked intermittently on RPG Maker XP to build small Pokémon fangames using Ruby, including design, storyboarding, and a lot of custom scripting required for gameplay logic.

In addition to several larger, unfinished Pokémon projects, I’ve spent some time in the Game Boy Advance Pokémon modding scene.

Outside of Pokémon, I mostly play classic Need for Speed titles such as Need for Speed II SE, Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit, and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2, and currently hold 10+ world records on speedrun.com for these Need for Speed games.

I also love playing Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars both on mobile and on a DS emulator.

### Films
Favourite films: The Pianist (2002), Fight Club (1999), Shutter Island (2010), The Green Mile (1999), The Truman Show (1998), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Parasite (2019), The Prestige (2006)

## Pages

- Home: https://ashutoshsundresh.com/
- Experience & Projects: https://ashutoshsundresh.com/experience
- Coursework: https://ashutoshsundresh.com/experience/coursework