ABC Code Jam 2023
Rishi Shah
Keynote Speaker
Rishi Shah is our keynote speaker for this year and is interested in the topics of Observability, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering.
He is passionate about DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering. He is currently a Senior SWE at Disney Streaming, working on the Observability Platform Engineering team. He graduated from UC Irvine with a B.S. in Software Engineering.
Varun Bharadwaj
Building a Machine Learning Model with Python Leader
Varun is a sophomore studying Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, and an alumni of Whitney High School. Varun is currently interested in software engineering in quantitative trading, is part of a drone research club, and enjoys Formula 1 in his free time.
During his time at Whitney, Varun led the Whitney Robotics Team, and was the head event coordinator for ABC Code Jam.
Amar Gandhi
Building Web Apps with Python and Flask Leader
Amar is a junior Computer Science major at Cal Poly Pomona and an alumni of Whitney High School.
During his time at Whitney, he led the WHS Robotics software team and helped coordinate Code Jams 2019 and 2020. In college, he published research in computer vision/AI, and interned at VMware.
Tony Park
Hosting and Securing your own Web Server Leader
Tony is a former United States Marine Corps Communications Officer with an engineering background in Cybersecurity, Networks, and Web Development. He holds a Master's Degree in Cybersecurity Engineering from the University of San Diego and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
He is a passionate leader intent on serving the community and aiding small businesses grow through the incorporation of modern technology. He has aided a myriad of companies in fortifying their networks, updating their IT infrastructure, and modernizing their customer-facing websites.
Rishikesh Ingale
ML in the Industry Speaker
Rishikesh is a software engineer at Google working mainly on distributed machine learning and partly on machine learning research.
His prior industry experience involves natural language understanding and ML for cloud efficiency. He has broad interests in ML and systems.
Matt Johnson
Judge / Faculty Advisor
Matt Johnson is a teacher of physics and artificial intelligence at Whitney High School. He believes that the computer is the defining invention and device of modern humanity. As such, all young people need have at least some exposure to the logic upon computers are built. In order to be self-sufficient, useful, and aware of how society is changing, the computer needs to be a tool students can enjoy and command rather than some mystery device.
Steve Wong
Judge
Staff Engineer at VMware working on open source cloud native and edge native software projects. Co chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Edge and IoT Working Group.
Have held engineering or architect roles in products including various IBM and Dell PCs, control systems for pipelines, refineries, electric power generation, oil fields, medical devices, NASA mission control, manufacturing and process plants, cloud and data center storage and backup products, VMware vSphere, Kubernetes. Current interest is pursuing opportunities in edge and IoT computing enabled by technology advances in communication and AI/ML.
Richard Crow
Judge / Faculty Advisor
Richard Crow is a Computer Science teacher at Cerritos High School. Richard has been a teacher for over ten years, and prior to teaching Computer Science he taught Math at both Cerritos High and Teztlaff Middle schools. He graduated from California State University in Fullerton, and did his student teaching at Cerritos High. Richard loves teaching Computer Science because it allows him to encourage students to pursue STEM fields in college.