About

Koustav Chowdhury is a final year undergraduate student pursuing a major in Computer Science at IIT Kharagpur. With a primary interest in programming language design and data structures, particularly hash tables and hashing schemes, he intends to work in Systems Engineering and Computer Networks. He is a competitive programmer who enjoys solving problems and is also an open-source enthusiast who loves contributing to a variety of projects. Koustav is a language enthusiast who always seeks to learn new languages at will. Currently, Koustav is a Member of Technical Staff at Nutanix, where he interned in the DR & Backup team of Nutanix India. He was involved in a project that required him to create a debug page for Magneto that lists details of Recovery Plan Jobs in a navigable format. He also contributed to a task that involved CHDR of VMs with SATA adapter type. This information will be required for failover from hypervisors that support these adapter type disks to those who don't. Koustav has also worked as a Student Developer for The Julia Language at Julia Computing during Google Summer of Code 2020. Here, he implemented a generic version of an ordered hash table, which is faster than the current OrderedDict of Julia. He also wrote a comprehensive benchmark suite for AbstractDict types, coded a hash table inspired by the Swiss Table developed at Google, and implemented several tree algorithms to create tags for implementing order statistics. Koustav has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur, which is expected to be completed in December 2021. His tech stack includes experience as a Software Engineer and in Search, and his relevant experience is 1.87 years.