Arya Javadi

Systems & Software Engineering

Engineering at UWaterloo, Systems and Software at D.E. Shaw, Palantir, AWS. A collection of my work, readings and interests, this page will serve as my digital bookshelf as I add to its bits and pieces.

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Experience

Software Engineer Intern

D.E. Shaw — Summer 2026 (Incoming)

New York, NY

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Toronto, ON

Software Engineer Intern

Palantir Technologies

New York, NY

Software Engineer Intern

Signiant

Remote

Research

Undergraduate Applied ML Research

Critical ML Lab — Advisor: Sirisha Rambhatla

Developed Refusal Direction Optimization – vector space disentanglement for large language models and explored parallels with PCA-style orthogonalizations.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

PMEAL Labs — Advisor: Jeff Gostick

Trained GNN diffusion kernels improving predictive accuracy 5x on Monte Carlo simulated datasets.