Colin Scott

Work

I lived in India for two years, where I was part of Microsoft Research. I spent most of my time working on improving the user experience and business model of device-to-device file sharing. I had the opportunity to present this work to Satya Nadella and the Senior Leadership Team at Microsoft.

I interned with the mobile web performance team at Google the summer of 2013 and the summer of 2014.

I interned with the control cluster team at Nicira (acquired by VMware July 2012) the summer of 2012.

I interned with the CloudFront team at Amazon Web Services the summer of 2010.

Teaching and Mentorship

Microsoft Research India has a fantastic research fellow and internship program for students hoping to gain research experience. I got the chance to work with six budding computer scientists and designers: Chirantan Mahipal (now a graduate student at UIUC), Sudheesh Singanamalla, Venkatesh Potluri (now a graduate student at UW), Nithin Ramachandrappa, Sanket Shah, and Venkatesh Balasubramanian.

I've had the opportunity to work with some of the smartest undergrads at Cal: Jamshed Vesuna, who joined Robin Hood, Andrew Or, who spent two years at Databrix and will soon be joining Princeton's PhD program, Sam Whitlock, who joined EPFL's PhD program, Chih Hu, who is now at VMware, Eugune Huang, who is now at Box, and Jefferson Lai, who is now a master's student at Berkeley.

I was a TA for Sylvia Ratnasamy's undergraduate networking course, taught Fall 2013.

I was a TA for Scott Shenker's undergraduate networking course, taught Fall 2012.

Here are some useful resources:
- For graduate students.
- For graduate school applicants, including how to write a statement of purpose.
- For systems researchers.
- For networking researchers.

Play

I love travelling. Here are the places I've been.

Several of my blog posts have topped Hacker News, make sure to check them out!