Hey! I'm Purag.

I'm a software engineer at YouTube. I graduated from UC San Diego with a degree in Computer Science. My primary research interests are in programming languages (program synthesis), computability theory, and compiler construction.

Experience

YouTube

Software Engineer
Software Engineer
  • Working to improve the presentation of content on the YouTube living room platform
TypeScript

Microsoft

Software Engineering Intern
Software Engineering Intern
  • Utilized prerelease APIs to update user interface in a core Windows application used on over 100 million devices each month
  • Implemented data model to allow core Windows application to display and set system date and time information
XAML
C++/CX
UWP

YouTube

Software Engineering Intern
Software Engineering Intern
  • Added Creator Endscreens to YouTube television application to drive activity to uploader channels and videos
  • Implemented functionality to enable TV remote/controller navigation of arbitrarily placed onscreen elements
  • Unit tested thoroughly using Jasmine framework
JavaScript
Closure Compiler
Jasmine

Pure Storage

Software Engineering Intern
Software Engineering Intern
  • Implemented database schema changes throughout kernel, CLI, and REST stack
  • Manipulated VMs using VMWare vSphere Web Client APIs in a customer-facing product
Java
C++
Python

UC San Diego CSE Department

Tutor
Tutor
  • Assisting students during lab hours and grading programming assignments
  • Holding office hours to go over homework problems and exam solutions
  • Leading discussion sessions to go over upcoming assignments
Programming Languages
Compiler Construction
Java
C
C++
SPARC Assembly
Data Structures
Computability Theory

Projects

Hamazkayin Pasadena WordPress Theme

  • Sophisticated WordPress theme for local Armenian cultural organization
  • Cutting-edge development tools and build process
Pug
Sass
PHP
JavaScript
WordPress

momo

  • Incredibly lightweight CSS animation library for JavaScript
  • Published on NPM as momojs with 75+ downloads
JavaScript
CSS
Node.js

concur

  • User-level threading library for JavaScript
JavaScript
Concurrency

archsim

  • Highly extensible simulator for user-defined assembly language architectures
JavaScript
C
Assembly

Adventour

  • Served as lead developer on Android app to create and take walking "tours"
  • Built database access wrapper in Android and RESTful data service with node-mysql
Android
Node.js
Express
Java
JavaScript
SQL

gcc.js

  • Full-scale C compiler built with JavaScript
JavaScript
C
Assembly

PearleyParser

  • Lexical analyzer and parser generator
  • JavaScript implementation of the Earley parsing algorithm
JavaScript
Lexical Analysis
Parsing

Stack Overflow

  • + reputation points with over 400 questions and answers
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
jQuery
Java
C

Piazza Hackathon

  • Web application that feeds data from student notes into live feedback visualizations for lecturers
  • Ranked with team as finalists
JavaScript
Node.js
Express.io
MongoDB
Mongoose