Hello, I'm Martin Chernyavskiy đź‘‹
I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My interests center on database internals, systems engineering, and backend infrastructure: how high-performance data systems are designed and built, from query execution and storage engines to the hardware-software interface that shapes their performance. I'm increasingly drawn to the data-platform side of that work, applying systems fundamentals to how data moves, scales, and powers real products.
Experience
Software Engineer Intern
Jun 2026 – PresentiManage · Chicago, IL
Java / Spring Boot backend: REST APIs that turn a manual multi-CLI Kubernetes deploy into one API-driven workflow, plus OAuth2/RBAC auth, CI speedups, and an Ebean→MyBatis persistence migration.
Undergraduate Researcher, Sirius DB
Jan 2026 – May 2026UW–Madison Systems Lab (NVIDIA collaborative)
GPU-accelerated SQL engine in C++/CUDA: query operators over columnar data with NVIDIA libcudf and RMM.
Distributed Systems Research Intern
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025Peking University, Beijing
Replicated key-value store in Go: Raft-style replication, with latency and failover optimization.
Undergraduate Researcher, Info Theory
Aug 2024 – May 2025University of Wisconsin–Madison
Algorithmic information theory and Kolmogorov complexity: theoretical compression limits relevant to storage systems.
Software Engineer
Sep 2024 – Jan 2025Cardinal Trading Group · Madison, WI
Python backtesting engine (per-strategy P&L, Sharpe, max drawdown) and a market-data ETL pipeline ingesting and caching 10+ years of daily prices for 1,000+ equities.
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.