About Me

Hi there, I'm Jamsheed! 👋

I'm a UC Berkeley Computer Science alumnus, and I'm currently working as Founding Engineer at Layerup (YC S22).

In my spare time, I help students start their own ventures at Hack+. I'm passionate about new ways to approach computer science education, especially through hackathons: in the past, I co-founded Pinnacle, the Olympics of Hackathons, and directed 30+ hackathons through projects like Los Altos Hacks and CodeDay.

In the past, I've worked at Twitter, Apple, Udacity, and Gauss Surgical (acq'd by Stryker), doing engineering and project management. I've also published research under Stanford Graduate School of Education and Berkeley Netsys Lab; see below for publications.

I've also been practicing Taekwondo for over 15 years, holding a 5th degree black belt and a International Referee certification from World Taekwondo. Aside from refereeing, I am a coach for the UC Berkeley collegiate Taekwondo team, self-defense instructor for PE courses at UC Berkeley, and a visiting instructor at my Taekwondo alma mater, Tiger Martial Arts. To find out more about my Taekwondo experience, check out my Taekwondo resume.

You can find out more about my specific positions and accomplishments on my LinkedIn or on my resume.

Publications

Title: Jut: A Framework for Just-in-Time Data Access

Co-authors: Silvery Fu, Siyuan Dong, Steve McCanne, Amy Ousterhout, Sylvia Ratnasamy

Publisher: arXiv

Funded by: University of California, Berkeley

Title: Instructional interventions for improving COVID-19 knowledge, attitudes, behaviors: Evidence from a large-scale RCT in India

Co-authors: Dinsha Mistree, Prashant Loyalka, Robert Fairlie, Ashutosh Bhuradia, Manyu Angrish, Jason Lin, Amar Karoshi, Sara Yen, Vafa Bayat

Publisher: Elsevier, Social Science & Medicine

Funded by: Stanford University

Projects

I love creating things that are useful or have an impact on people. Here are a handful of projects that I've worked on:

LaptopVR streams a Mac's screen to an iPhone over USB. The screen is displayed stereoscopically, allowing the user to view the screen in VR without needing an expensive VR headset. This project won the Best Hardware Hack prize at Cal Hacks 8. You can view the YouTube demo here.
3NAME perpetually scans for available three-letter Minecraft usernames (considered "rare") using a complex algorithm that I designed. Over the last 5 years, I've grown the website to serve over 500,000 monthly requests, and it even has a fanbase of over 5,000 gamers on Discord.
Chrome Theme Studio is a tool that allows users to create their own custom browser theme for most Chromium-based browsers. It was featured as #3 Product of the Day on Product Hunt, and it's my most starred project on GitHub.

Programming Skills

Languages

C
Java
Scala
Swift
Objective-C
JavaScript
TypeScript
HTML
CSS
PHP
Node.js
React
Redux
React Native
Python
SQL
Ruby
Bash
RISC-V

Concepts

AI/ML
LLMs
Object Oriented Programming
Distributed Computing
Database Design
Computer Security
Git Source Control
Unix System Administration
Unit Testing
API Design
DNS/Routing
Networking Protocols

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