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Jay Dharmadhikari

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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
Multimodal inference systems at Amazon Photos Computer Vision. Built a cloud-based system to tag and cluster images with semantic embeddings.
Amazon, Software Engineer Intern Summer 2024
Distributed service for Alexa+, the LLM-powered Alexa. Contributed to a system that scans for event tickets matching a user's preferences and pings the user when tickets are available. See it in the launch highlights.
University of Washington, Teaching Staff 2023 - Present
Courses taught, ranked by how fun they were to teach:
Cartogram, Software Engineer Intern Summer 2021
Migrating mobile app modules from Objective-C to Swift.

posts

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

sandbox

jvimMemory-safe modal text editor
jpaintOpenGL paint pad for Mac
data structuresLibrary of graphs, trees, and sketches
jumpseatMinimalist AI completion playground
canvas gamesVibe-coded games on HTML Canvas