Luka Govedič

Teaching Assistant for 6.1120 (Dynamic Computer Language Engineering)

Class of 30+ people. Taught introduction to C++, staffed office hours and provided help with the project, from parsing to garbage collection and JIT-compilation. Drastically improved the skeleton code to use smart pointers and CMake.

Undergraduate/Graduate Researcher

Designed and implemented a brand-new protocol for scheduling parallel for-loops in Cilk, a cutting-edge fork-join parallelization runtime system.

• Achieved a 2x speedup over state-of-the-art with unoptimized prototype
• Worked with LLVM compiler infrastructure
• Targeting publication

Software Performance Engineering Intern

Added end-to-end support for the bfloat16 data type to the inference engine to reduce data movement by up to 50%.

• Wrote 3000+ lines of C++17, used Xbyak to emit AVX-512 SIMD instructions.
• Added custom SFINAE-based type-traits to make the code more generic

Embedded Firmware Engineering Intern

Devised, designed, and implemented a backend service to support firmware updating and downloads. Worked with Backend engineers as well as Firmware.

• Wrote 5000+ lines of Go (using Fiber framework), deployed on ArgoCD & K8s
• Crucial service, used by 200,000 devices every day (more added daily)
• Implemented a cross-microservice authentication protocol
• Devised a new middleware-based error-reporting scheme for all microservices

Software Engineering Intern

Designed, built, tested, and deployed a honeypot to monitor malicious scanning activity on the internet. Worked across teams to drive the design specification.

• Learned Go and wrote 3000+ lines of it, and Java code for the ingest interface
• Used Ansible for Infrastructure as Code provisioning and deployed it in Docker

Embedded Systems Intern

Programmed the motor inverter controllers on their electric car and designed a PCB for driving contactors connecting motors to the batteries.

• Programmed TMS1227 ARM processors using C on top of SafeRTOS
• Designed an isolated contactor driver PCB with Altium and LTSpice

Avionics Subteam Leader/Member

Designing PCBs, writing code and tests for multi-threaded embedded systems with real-time position estimation, telemetry, and parachute deployment for a rocket going to space. Leader of avionics (15 people) between 3/2019 – 8/2020.

• Using the MbedOS RTOS with CMake, unit tests in C++ using GoogleTest
• Configured debugging with SEGGER JLink through JTAG with platformio

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• 6.172: Performance engineering
• 6.035: Compiler Engineering
• 6.818: Dynamic Computer Language Engineering
• 6.S081: Intro to Operating Systems
• 6.046: Advanced algorithms
• 6.857 (G): Network and computer security (A+)