Hello, I'm Martin Chernyavskiy đŸ‘‹
I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My interests center on database internals, systems engineering, and backend infrastructure. I'm drawn to how high-performance data systems are designed and built, from query execution and storage engines to the hardware-software interface that shapes their performance.
Experience
Undergraduate Researcher, Sirius DB
Jan 2026 – PresentUW–Madison Systems Lab (NVIDIA Collaborative)
Developing C++ query execution pipelines for an NVIDIA-collaborative GPU-accelerated SQL engine, optimizing analytical workload performance using the RAPIDS ecosystem.
Visiting Researcher, Distributed Data Systems
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025Peking University, Beijing
Engineered a C++ analytical storage prototype migrating from row-oriented to vectorized execution, achieving a 3x improvement in query scan performance on TPC-H benchmarks.
Undergraduate Researcher, Info Theory
Aug 2024 – May 2025UW–Madison Department of Mathematics
Applied algorithmic information theory and Kolmogorov complexity to analyze theoretical compression limits relevant to database storage systems.
Software Engineer
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025Cardinal Trading Group
Built high-performance Python backtesting and ETL infrastructure for a quantitative trading organization, reducing execution time from 3 minutes to under 30 seconds.
Beyond Code
Traveling
Always drawn to new places and the stories that come with them.
Languages
Fascinated by how language shapes the way people think.
Meeting People
Energized by conversations with people from different walks of life.
Music
A constant companion for deep work, travel, and everything in between.
Reading
Drawn to both technical depth and stories that expand perspective.
Cooking
Finding creativity and calm in cooking something from scratch.