About Me

I am currently in my sixth year of PhD at Emory University, where I am working at Spatial Computing Lab. My research focus is on making microservices more performant. In a quest to increase their performace, I have been researching different ways to identify failure root cause and faster communication paradigm. I am advised by Dr. Andreas Züfle and Dr. Avani Wildani. I also closely collaborate with Dr. Irene Zhang from Microsoft Research.

During my PhD, I did internships at Amazon Web Services, Katanagraph to apply my research for solving real world problems. In the past, I worked at UMM Studios, where I was the one of the first engineers to build a review aggregation service for Zceppa. I obtained my BE in Computer Science in 2018 from Department of Computer Science at CEG.

Here are a few technologies, I’ve been working with recently:

  • Rust
  • DPDK
  • Docker
  • Distributed Tracing
  • Linux
  • Kernel Bypass

Where I’ve Worked

Graduate Research Assistant @ Emory University

May - Present

  • Doing PhD in Computer Science at Spatial Computing Lab.
  • Working on diagnosing and fixing performance problems in microservices.
  • Teaching Assistant: Database (Fall 2022), Algorithms(Spring 2020), Security (Fall 2019)
  • Instructor of Record: Intro to Python (Spring 2021)

Publication

  1. Chatting with Logs: An exploratory study on Finetuning LLMs for LogQL Vishwanath Seshagiri, Siddharth Balyan, Vaastav Anand, Kaustubh Dhole, Ishan Sharma, Avani Wildani, José Cambronero, Andreas Züfle [PDF][LINK][CODE](Under Review)
  2. Rethinking the Networking Stack for Serverless Environments: A Sidecar Approach Vishwanath Seshagiri, Abhinav Gupta, Vahab Jabrayilov, Avani Wildani, Kostis Kaffes [PDF][LINK]
  3. Identifying Mismatches Between Microservice Testbeds and Industrial Perception of Microservices. Vishwanath Seshagiri, Darby Huye, Lan Liu, Avani Wildani, Raja Sambasivan [PDF][LINK]
  4. A biologically plausible network model for pattern storage and recall inspired by Dentate Gyrus V. Vidya Janarthanam, Vishwanath Seshagiri, and A.P. Shanthi [PDF][LINK][CODE]

What’s Next?

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