👋 Hey there, I'm Yanni!

I'm an MCS student studying computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 🌽

Currently, I'm an undergraduate research assistant at the Parallel Programming Laboratory (PPL) where I tinker with the Charm++ framework. My interests generally lie in building scalable systems for large-scale computing applications. Previously, I was one of the infrastructure leads for CS341, and a course assistant for CS374, CS128 and CS433.

This past summer, I worked at Jump Trading, where I worked on performance optimizations for post-trade analysis pipelines.

During the summer before that, I worked at Modern Treasury, where I redesigned a financial data ingestion system, 275x'ing its operating capacity.

I'm also the current Academic Committee Chair of UIUC's Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) student chapter. In the past, I've been the Vice Chair for ACM and a member of the Reflection Projections development team, Disruption Lab, and the Illinois Space Society.

When I'm not being a nerd, I like playing and making music, cooking, taking photos, and watching da bears lose. Feel free to contact me!