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= Asa Paparo

#link("mailto:paparoa@mit.edu")[paparoa\@mit.edu]
| #link("https://anglesideangle.dev/")[anglesideangle.dev]
| #link("https://github.com/AngleSideAngle")[github.com/anglesideangle]
| #link("https://www.linkedin.com/in/asa-paparo/")[linkedin.com/in/asa-paparo]

== Education
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=== Massachusetts Institute of Technology #h(1fr) Cambridge, MA
Candidate for Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science #h(1fr) 8/2024 -- Present \
- Built end-to-end simulation of 7-DOF arm sorting books on a shelf using Drake in _Robotic Manipulation_
- Implemented simple RISC-V CPU in _Introduction to Low-Level Programming_

=== The Bronx High School of Science #h(1fr) Bronx, NY
Advanced Regents Diploma #h(1fr) 8/2020 -- 6/2024 \

== Experience
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=== MIT Motorsports #h(1fr) Cambridge, MA <motorsports>
Autonomous Driving Infrastructure Lead #h(1fr) 8/2024 -- Present \
- Design and deploy #link(<mantle>)[NixOS based operating system] for robotics
- Build zero-copy event driven sensor fusion inference pipeline in rust
- Develop simulation environment for vehicle dynamics and vision
- Founding member of team competing in the first North American FSAE driverless competition

=== MIT Aerospace Control Lab #h(1fr) Cambridge, MA
Undergraduate Researcher #h(1fr) 5/2025 -- 12/2025 \
- Build uniform infrastructure for controlling and interfacing with multiple robots
- Support research on multi-agent SLAM and cooperative planning

=== Charles Stark Draper Laboratory #h(1fr) Cambridge, MA
Autonomous Systems Intern #h(1fr) 6/2024 -- 8/2024 \
- Developed software for control and simulation of a fully autonomous rover with ROS 2 and Gazebo
- Collaborated with engineering team of 7 interns to budget, plan, and implement solution to design challenge

=== SciBorgs Robotics Team #h(1fr) Bronx, NY
Software Lead #h(1fr) 5/2023 -- 6/2024 \
- Led software team of 10+ people in development and integration of robot software
- Taught new members programming, version control, software development, and calculus
- Contributed to upstream development of critical libraries utilized by teams, including WPILib
- Mentored middle and high school students in foundational programming and robotics

== Projects

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=== Mantle <mantle>
Ongoing design of robotics deployment platform based on NixOS for #link(<motorsports>)[MIT Motorsports]
- Implement immutable A/B updates based on `systemd-repart` and `systemd-sysupdate`
- Design fast iteration system via an overlayfs nix store and live activation
- Maintain nix cross compilation infrastructure for subteam

=== #link("https://github.com/AngleSideAngle/sasc")[Stack Allocated Structured Concurrency] \
Experiments for developing a stack allocated stackless coroutines in a future version of rust
- Learned low level foundations of rust's concurrency and ownership models
- Developed unsafe system for executing custom `Future` instances without heap allocation

== Skills
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*Programming*: Rust, Python, C, C++, Java, Bash, Nushell, C\#, JS, TS \
*Tools*: Linux, Systemd, Nix, Docker, ROS 2, #typst, #latex, Git \