Hi, I'm Olaf

I'm currently a student at the University of Michigan interested in Operating Systems, LLMs, and Distributed Systems

Experience

What I've been up to lately

Software Engineer Intern

Netflix

May 2025 - Aug 2025

Los Gatos, CA

Ads Metrics Team.

Co-Founder & Engineer

Quail AI

Dec 2024 - May 2025

Ann Arbor, MI

ex: quailbi.com

Operating Systems TA

University of Michigan

Aug 2024 - Dec 2024

Ann Arbor, MI

Taught core OS concepts to 300+ students.

Software Engineer Intern

MeetYourClass

May 2024 - Aug 2024

Ann Arbor, MI

Back-end team.

Research Project Lead

University of Michigan

Apr 2023 - Aug 2024

Ann Arbor, MI

MRAPID Air Quality Monitoring Project.

Software Engineer Intern

Infinite Degrees

Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

Ann Arbor, MI

Data Processing Team.

Education

Master of Science

Computer Science and Engineering

University of Michigan

Aug 2025 - May 2026

Ann Arbor, MI

Bachelor of Science

Computer Science

University of Michigan

Aug 2022 - May 2025

Ann Arbor, MI

Bookshelf

Things I'm currently reading or highly recommend!

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Finished

Effective Modern C++

Page 31

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

Page 10

Modern Java in Action

Finished

The Adtech Book

Finished

Projects

A few things I've built

Aug 2025

Flash Chat

Built the world's fastest AI chatbot. Utilized Cloudflare Workers for minimal latency (60ms) and Groq for maximum inference speed (3000 tokens/s).

RemixGroqVercel AI SDK

Jan 2025

Azure AI Adapter

2000+ weekly downloads

Open-source npm package for the Vercel AI SDK with 2000+ weekly downloads

TypeScriptAzure AIVercel AI SDKNPM

Jan 2025

Quail

Quail was an AI Powered BI Platform/ SQL Editor.

TypeScriptSQLAI

Dec 2024

Distributed Key-Value Stores

Created 5 complex distributed key-value stores exploring fault tolerance, replication, and consensus.

GoDafnyPaxos2PCSharding

May 2024

Multithreaded Network File Server

Heavily concurrent, crash-consistent network fileserver utilizing committing writes, Boost threads, R/W locks for concurrency, and POSIX sockets for network communication.

C++Fault Tolerance

Feb 2022

IronThief

A minecraft server plugin that tracks the movement of iron in your world.

Java

Jan 2022

Chrome Counter

A Chrome extension that counts how many tabs you have (and encourages you to cut down :)

JavaScriptHTMLCSS

Sep 2021

Gamepigeon Tanks Solver

A solver for the Gamepigeon Tanks game using computer vision.

PythonComputer Vision

Feb 2021

SnakeBot

A discord social credit system

Python