Jay Dharmadhikari

I'm a Master's student in computer science at the University of Washington. I study theory, systems, and the bridge between them. My goal is to build systems that are fast, user-facing, and algorithmic.

work

Amazon, Software Engineer Intern Summer 2025

Computer vision inference at Amazon Photos. Built a cloud-based system to tag and cluster images with semantic embeddings.

Amazon, Software Engineer Intern Summer 2024

Distributed systems for Alexa+, the LLM-powered Alexa. Worked on an agentic ticket buying feature shown at launch.

University of Washington, Teaching Staff 2023 - 2025

Courses taught:

3x Design and Analysis of Algorithms (CSE 421)
1x Probability Theory (CSE 312)
1x Discrete Math (CSE 311)
3x Java Programming (CSE 123)

Cartogram, Software Engineer Intern Summer 2021

Migrating mobile app modules from Objective-C to Swift.

posts

Amazon's Vehicle Routing, UnpackedSept 2025
Signed GraphsJune 2025
Sublinear AlgorithmsMay 2025
Sampling Spanning TreesApril 2025
Quantile ApproximationDecember 2024

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