Joe
Komskis

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Master of Science in Computer Science

Atlanta, GA

May 2022

    University of Florida

    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

    Gainesville, FL

    May 2020

    • GPA: 3.98
    • Cum Laude
    • Honors Program
    • Minor: Business Administration

    Experience

    Microsoft

    Software Engineering Intern (Virtual Internship)

    Ft Lauderdale, FL

    May 2020 - August 2020

    • Designed and implemented share caching in Azure Data Lake Store to reduce load on the namespace service of ADLS
    • Collected and analyzed log files from production machines to estimate impact and tune caching parameters
    • Executed test workloads before and after caching to evaluate performance improvements

    University of Florida

    Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - Data Structures and Algorithms

    Gainesville, FL

    August 2018 - May 2020

    • Taught a weekly discussion of 50 students, administered and graded quizzes, reviewed and gave context to material
    • Held weekly office hours to help students with assignments and projects
    • Organized the creation of an interface, test suite, and automatic grader for a project implementing Huffman’s Algorithm

    University of Florida Programming Team

    Captain
    Lead

    Gainesville, FL

    January 2019-May 2020
    September 2018-January 2019

    • Competed in ACM Programming Competitions focusing in data structures and algorithms
    • Led meetings and taught competitive programming topics such as algorithm complexity
    • SER 2017: 20/47 SER 2018: 10/36 SER 2019: 11/36

    Microsoft

    Software Engineering Intern

    Redmond, WA

    May 2019 - August 2019

    • Implemented directory range partitioning to increase throughput of the hierarchical namespace service of Azure Storage
    • Demonstrated performance improvements using parallelized tests
    • Documented the design and implementation to facilitate understanding of the project in the future

    Ultimate Software

    Software Engineering Intern

    Weston, FL

    May 2018 - August 2018

    • Shortened the feedback loop of the TeamCity CI/CD pipeline and optimized acceptance testing, increasing team workflow efficiency
    • Created a new CI/CD pipeline for deploying and reconciling forms to assist migrating to a microservices architecture
    • Tested and reviewed code developed by other members of my team to ensure coding standards were met