Dwarakesh Baraneetharan

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I studied computer science and mathematics at the University of Maryland, and I am now doing an M.S. in computer science at Columbia. Before that I built ETL pipelines at a defense contractor, worked on medical image segmentation for spinal surgery planning at IIT Madras, and wrote the control layer that sat between the vision stack and the motors on a semi-autonomous Mars rover.

Most of what I enjoy sits in the gap between the two disciplines: a bound that tells you a data structure cannot be faster, a cache line that says the bound was optimistic, and the work of reconciling them. I like building tools other people can poke at, which is why so much of what I write ends up rendering something.

Away from a terminal I read a great deal of analysis I do not fully understand yet, play chess badly and quickly, and keep a running list of problems I intend to come back to.

Clifford attractor — x′ = sin(a·y) + c·cos(a·x), y′ = sin(b·x) + d·cos(b·y). Parameters drift over time. Hover to bend a and b.

TwodegreesfromMaryland.Amaster'sunderwayatColumbia.

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  1. Sep 2026 - Dec 2027Next

    M.S. Computer Science

    Columbia University

    Coursework in networks, hyperscale and AI infrastructure, NLP and advanced algorithms.

  2. Sep 2024 - Jul 2026Robotics

    Integration Team Lead

    UMD Loop (University Rover Challenge)

    Led a team of 7 across 6 software subsystems. Wrote the ros2_control hardware abstraction layer that synchronised Python vision pipelines with the real-time C++ motor controllers on a semi-autonomous Mars rover.

  3. Aug 2024 - May 2026Education

    B.S. Computer Science & Mathematics

    University of Maryland, College Park

    Dual degrees in CS (data science track) and mathematics (statistics track). College Park Scholar, Science, Technology and Society. 3.75 GPA.

  4. May 2025 - Aug 2025Industry

    Data Engineering Intern

    Aquil Systems Inc.

    Built an ETL pipeline pulling REST payloads into a SQL warehouse behind 15 D3.js visualisations, and a load-testing harness that held 1000 requests per second.

  5. Dec 2024 - Jan 2025Research

    Computer Vision Intern

    IIT Madras Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre

    Reworked a PyTorch medical image segmentation pipeline used for spinal surgery planning, cutting a run from 4 hours to 53 minutes through memory changes and batched inference without losing accuracy.

02Colophon

Framework
React 19 + Vite
Motion
Motion for React + Lenis
Backdrop
Hand-written GLSL, domain-warped simplex noise
Artwork
Harmonographs generated per project seed
Type
Bricolage Grotesque · Instrument Serif · Inter Tight · JetBrains Mono
Hosting
GitHub Pages behind Cloudflare