Dev is a PhD candidate researching storage systems, SSDs, and data management at the Center for Research in Storage and Systems, UC Santa Cruz. He works on systems that enable easier host-device coordination for performance and reliability improvements.
His latest project, Shimmer, allows easy shim layers to generate and provide lifetime hints that improve the performance of log-structured systems on top of SSDs with no change to applications or operating systems. He graduated in Winter 2024

Dev has been an Engineering Intern at Riverbed Networks (2017), and an Architecture Enabling Intern at SK Hynix America Ltd. (2019)