Kai Sun

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ABOUT KAI SUN

Hi, I\'m Kai. I am an incoming Software Engineering Intern at Snowflake and a 4th year Computer Science and Statistics student at the University of Waterloo. I am interested in distributed systems, low-latency and low-level programs, and algorithms.As a Software Engineering Intern at Jane Street, I developed a distributed system with significantly faster endpoint recovery time after node failure, a failure detection library, automatic failure recovery, and simulator of an internet connection to a cryptocurrency exchange.As a Research Intern at Uber ATG, I did deep learning research on intelligent vehicle-to-vehicle communication in cooperative self-driving. As a Software Engineering Intern at MemSQL (a distributed database, now SingleStore), I developed efficient search algorithms for the distributed query optimizer to find optimal join plans significantly faster and better backup join plansAs an Android Software Development Student at BlackBerry, I improved the BlackBerry Hub+ Inbox, Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes Android apps.I also enjoy competitive math and programming. I achieved a Silver Medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2016, was on the 4th Place Team in the ACM-ICPC East Central North America Regional Contest in 2018, and received Honorable Mentions in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition in 2018 and 2019.