Summary
PhD graduate from Stony Brook University who is interested in Software Engineering roles. Engineering experience includes networking performance and security work in ML, R&D, datacenter networking, cient-side networking and network analytics teams in Cloudflare, Meta, Akamai, and a startup. Research experience involves computer networking, TCP, HTTP, mobile, video, and web as well as leading research projects to completion and mentoring students.
Work Experience
Systems Engineer, Cloudflare Inc., April 2023 - Present
Software Engineer Contractor (Visiting Researcher) & Software Engineering Intern (3x), Meta Inc., May 2019 - Sept 2022
Web Performance Research Intern, Akamai Technologies Inc., May 2018 - August 2018
Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, Stony Brook University, Aug 2016 - Nov 2022
Software Developer, CooCoo Inc., May 2014 - Dec 2015
Education
PhD in Computer Science, Stony Brook University, 2016 - 2022
- Area: Computer Networking (TCP, HTTP, Web, Video)
- Advisor & Lab: Aruna Balasubramanian & NetSys Lab
Computer Science & Mathematics Double Major, Molloy College, 2012 - 2015
- Valedictorian & Honors Program Graduate
- Computer Science/Math GPA 4.0 - Overall GPA 3.986
Publications
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Is IPFS Ready for Decentralized Video Streaming?
Zhengyu Wu, ChengHao Ryan Yang, Santiago Vargas, Aruna Balasubramanian
WWW 2023 -
Predicting Network Buffer Capacity for BBR
Fairness
Ibrahim Umit Akgun, Santiago Vargas, Michael Arkhangelskiy, Andrew Burford, Michael McNeill, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anshul Gandhi, Erez Zadok
ML for Systems Workshop NeurIPS 2022 -
Are Mobiles Ready for BBR?
Santiago Vargas, Gautham Gunapati, Anshul Gandhi, Aruna Balasubramanian
IMC 2022 -
BBR Bufferbloat in DASH
Video
Santiago Vargas, Rebecca Drucker, Aiswarya Renganathan, Aruna Balasubramanian, Anshul Gandhi
WWW 2021 -
PARSEC: Streaming 360 Degree Videos
Using Super-Resolution
Mallesham Dasari, Arani Bhattacharya, Santiago Vargas, Aruna Balasubramanian, Samir R. Das
INFOCOM 2020 -
Characterizing JSON Traffic Patterns
on a CDN
Santiago Vargas, Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Aruna Balasubramanian
IMC 2019 -
Impact of Device Performance on
Mobile Internet Quality of Experience
Mallesham Dasari, Santiago Vargas, Arani Bhattacharya, Aruna Balasubramanian, Samir R. Das, Michael Ferdman
IMC 2018
Academic Service
- Reviewer: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2023
- Reviewer: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2021
- Volunteer during PC meeting: ACM CoNEXT, 2019
- Co-organizer: Stony Brook CS Graduate Research Day, 2019
Awards & Honors
Stony Brook University
- Dr. W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship, 2016 - 2021
- GAANN Fellowship, Fall 2019
- Best Teaching Assistant Award, 2017
- Doctoral Diversity Fellowship in STEM, 2016
- Excellence Fellowship, 2016
Molloy College
- Valedictorian of Student Body, 2016
- Dominican Academic Excellence Scholarship, 2012 - 2016
- Honors Program Member and Graduate, 2012 - 2014
- Math Honors Society (Kappa Mu Epsilon), 2014 - 2015
- Mathematics/Computer Studies Club Secretary, 2014 - 2015