Ali Younis
Berkeley,CA
Summary
Ambitious Engineering Intern keen to contribute boundless enthusiasm while expanding personal competencies. Dedicated to absorbing and leveraging new techniques and skills. Ready to positively impact all new and ongoing projects through diligent pursuit of exceptional final products.
Overview
1
1
year of professional experience
Work History
SSD Validation & Data Pipeline Engineering Intern
Virtium LLC
06.2025 - 11.2025
- Built end-to-end SSD performance analysis pipelines parsing CrystalDiskMark, EZFIO (.ods), Ulink CSVs, Sanblaze HTML tables, sustained/latency logs, and SMART telemetry into unified dataframes.
- Developed automated regression-detection engines using thresholds, tolerance bands, z-scores, and full-distribution comparisons of latency, IOPS, throughput, and percentile performance degradation.
- Engineered a robust ODS diffing system: fixed-width formatting, scrollable table output, empty-row/column pruning, fuzzy 5% numeric matching, side-by-side visualization, automatic header preservation.
- Implemented full SMB server integration: wildcard part-number search, recursive directory crawling, folder disambiguation, timestamp filtering, multi-root traversal, and automated part-number extraction from DOCX qual reports.
- Created a Tkinter GUI with real-time mismatch highlighting, interactive table inspection, multi-file comparison, normalized key-value views, and integrated SMART log visual summaries.
- Added JESD219 workload-scaling logic to replay endurance traces adjusted by SSD capacity (e.g., 4Ö trace length for 512GB) enabling consistent cross-device benchmarking.
- Built Keysight PSU automation via raw /dev/usbtmc: voltage sweeps, dips, sags, brown-out injections, current-limit manipulation, power-cycling routines, recovery signature logging.
- Implemented real-time NVMe performance graphing synchronized to PSU voltage transitions to analyze bandwidth collapse, latency spikes, and throughput cliffs under unstable power.
- Created automated ROM-mode detection pipeline capturing controller unresponsiveness, mis-identification events, PCIe re-enumeration, and thermal-electrical fault interactions.
- Integrated PSU automation with heatbox control to enable compound thermal-electrical failure-mode mapping.
- Logged power abnormality signatures, kernel error patterns, SMART anomalies, and device recovery timelines for reliability modeling.
Cryptography & Wireless Security Intern
Thirdwayv Inc.
06.2024 - 11.2024
- Developed a Python/C++ cryptography analysis suite for handshake introspection, nonce-lifetime tracking, replay detection, key-rotation logging, and authentication-pattern visualization.
- Improved encrypted packet anomaly detection by 23% using statistical scoring heuristics, rolling deviation windows, frequency analysis, and flow-shape classification.
- Reverse-engineered low-power IoT authentication sequences (ECDH variants, challenge-response mechanisms, ephemeral key usage) for robustness evaluation.
- Modeled end-to-end latency, jitter, retry probability, packet-integrity degradation, and multi-hop wireless attenuation patterns.
- Optimized internal cryptographic pipelines by reducing serialization overhead, minimizing memory copies, and restructuring buffer scheduling.
Education
B.A. - Data Science - Machine Learning Domain Emphasis
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA12-2026
Skills
- Languages: Python, Java, C, JavaScript, MATLAB, SQL
- Data: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Matplotlib
- Development: Flask, Tkinter, BeautifulSoup, OpenPyXL
- Systems: SMBClient, NVMe CLI, SMART telemetry, Modbus, Keysight PSU automation
- Domains: Cryptography, automation pipelines, firmware validation, performance engineering, numerical methods, benchmarking, hardware–software integration
Websites
Projects
EVT SSD Comparison Platform, Flask, Built a web platform to compare qual reports with EVT test logs using automatic part-number extraction, wildcard directory mapping, and multi-directory search., Implemented advanced diff rendering for .txt, .csv, .ods logs; metric extraction; dynamic bandwidth/latency graphs; cross-file aggregation; multi-run statistical comparisons., Added SMART telemetry ingestion (RAW FOR DATASHEET CSV) with attribute normalization, visualization, and regression tracking. DTB4824 Heatbox Automation, Modbus, Created Modbus automation over /dev/usbtmc for temperature reading, control register manipulation, setpoint scheduling, and thermal-state logging., Integrated heatbox control with PSU logic for compound stress testing; automated voltage sweeps (baseline, ±5%, ±10% runs)., Built logging pipeline for thermal drift, steady-state variance, and PSU-induced thermal excursions. Drive Archive Platform, Flask, Designed recursive SMB traversal engine with caching, folder ranking, timestamp classification, and pattern-based log extraction., Implemented diff tools for large engineering logs with normalized token matching, structural alignment, and semantic change detection. Nutrition App, Flutter, Developed macro-calculation engine, automatic meal generator, PDF export system, and heuristic recipe lookup.
Timeline
SSD Validation & Data Pipeline Engineering Intern
Virtium LLC
06.2025 - 11.2025
Cryptography & Wireless Security Intern
Thirdwayv Inc.
06.2024 - 11.2024
B.A. - Data Science - Machine Learning Domain Emphasis
University of California, Berkeley