Reshi Adavan

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Reshi Adavan

Computer Engineering Student

About Me

I am a recent Computer Engineering graduate at the University of Waterloo, with a passion for exploring software and its intersections. Outside of engineering, I compete in a wide range of sports, and have interests in the automotive industry, music, fitness, and travelling.

Experience

Amazon

Toronto, ON

Software Development Engineer

June 2025 – Present

🤖 Working on the Alexa AI team

Texada

Remote

Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2024 – Dec 2024

👷 Flagship equipment management services for Texada core products

Huawei Canada

Markham, ON

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2024 – Apr 2024

☁️ R&D in serverless distributed data solutions for Huawei cloud

Achievers

Toronto, ON

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2023 – April 2023

🚀 Fintech services, systems, engines for the Employee Recognition platforms

Metro Supply Chain

Remote

Software Engineer Intern

May 2022 – Aug 2022

🚛 Lead engineer on visibility tooling and architected data solutions for the transportation management system

Loblaw Companies Limited

Remote

Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2021 – Dec 2021

🏭 Implemented machine learning models, UIs, and data solutions for distribution centers across Canada

Home Trust Company

Toronto, ON

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2021 – Apr 2021

⚙️ Innovation and transformation tools for banking solutions

Research

Alljoined

Research Scientist

May 2024 – Sep 2024

🧠 Researched brain image reconstruction with engineers from StabilityAI, Emotiv, Nvidia and DeepMind

University of Waterloo

Research Assistant

Sep 2023 – Dec 2023

💻 AMD interconnect, architecture, communicative algorithms research on the ROCm and RCCL software stack

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, ON

Research Assistant

Feb 2023 – Sep 2023

🚗 Researched multi-agent reinforcement learning for testing autonomous vehicles

Extracurriculars

Wat Street

Waterloo, ON

Head of Quant

Feb 2024 – May 2025

📈 R&D in models, engines, and infra to solve quant problems

Achievers

Toronto, ON

Hacker

Mar 2023

🛠️ W23 Hackathon – Implemented a backend CI/CD tool for sanity-checking microservice architecture deployment configurations

UW Orbital

Waterloo, ON

Software Engineer

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022

🛰️ Designed controlling & interfacing algorithms for the satellite

HackTheNorth

Waterloo, ON

Hacker

Feb 2021, Oct 2021

🧩 F21 & W21 Hackathons

Waterloo Formula Electric

Waterloo, ON

Software Engineer

Jan 2021 – Apr 2021

🔌 Spearheaded diagnostics platforms & tooling for the formula electric vehicle

Projects

A compilation of my side projects and open-source contributions. More on GitHub

Scout

A multi-keyword search tool capable of instant, context-rich query results across large textual datasets and filesystems. (C++)

Optio

An options pricing engine for vanilla and exotic options, along with greeks; uses a heston model, black-scholes, binomial/trinomial trees, monte-carlo, etc. (C++)

351-Compiler

A LL(1) compiler for W, F, Java, and VHDL; uses RDP, ASTs, performs lexing, tokenization, parsing, and builds GraphViz, SVGs AST images. (Java)

Sentinel

A distributed, scalable, in-memory key value database, similar in architecture to popular caching solutions like Redis and DynamoDB. (Golang)

Thoth

An industry standard tokenizer, purposed for large-scale language models like the GPT Series from OpenAI. (Python)

Replica

A data generation AI tool that generates new data based on data provided as input. (PyTorch)

Reshi Adavan