Ata Fatahi

Ata Fatahi is a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, where they focus on cross-stack optimizations for scalable distributed machine learning model training. Ata is a Ph.D. student in computer science at Penn State University, exploring various aspects of cloud efficiency, including resource management and the Serverless paradigm. Previously, Ata gained valuable experience as a Research Intern at HashiCorp, where they worked on Consul scalability, and at Microsoft, focusing on differential data provenance in relational databases. Ata also served as a Graduate Research Assistant at Penn State University, studying the efficiency of distributed and cloud systems, and worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences. Ata earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.