Rhea Parekh

About

I am a software engineer specialising in distributed systems and infrastructure. I am also really passionate about research in the fields of quantum computing and quantum information. Currently pursuing a part time Masters in Computer Science at Columbia University, focusing on a thesis in quantum information.

Experience

• Software Engineer at Meta
  Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  Developing the Warm Storage file system layer for Meta.

• Software Engineer at Microsoft
  Mar 2021 - Aug 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  Worked on the Linux Infrastructure Platform for Microsoft’s CDN, Azure Front Door, specially on building a scalable and reliable network config delivery pipeline.

• Quantum Computing Mentorship Program - Mentee at Quantum Open Source Foundation
  Oct 2020 - Jan 2021 · 4 mos

  Created Interlin-q, a quantum interconnect simulator for Distributed Quantum Algorithms.

• Undergraduate Research Assistant at Institute for Quantum Computing
  May 2020 - Sep 2020 · 5 mos

  Worked on developing a quantum game theory framework and developed an algorithm which successfully computes the Nash Equilibrium for a low-dimensional random bi-matrix quantum games. I was supervised by Prof. John Watrous

• Undergraduate Research Assistant at LIP6 - Le laboratoire d'Informatique de Sorbonne Université
  Aug 2019 - Jan 2020 · 6 mos

  Worked on developing the Quantum Protocol Zoo and the Certification library, under the guidance of Prof. Elham Kashefi. Quantum Protocol Zoo: https://wiki.veriqloud.fr/ Certification Library: https://wiki.veriqloud.fr/index.php?title=Certification_Library