Speaker

Shadaj Laddad

Shadaj is the research lead for the Hydro team at AWS. His work explores techniques that enable agentic coding for distributed systems, powered by Hydro: a Rust framework that enforces distributed correctness at compile-time. Previously, Shadaj received his PhD at UC Berkeley co-advised by Alvin Cheung and Joe Hellerstein, where he designed Hydro and its semantics. Shadaj is a founder and co-organizer of the SF Systems Club, which runs meetups and coffee chats for systems enthusiasts. When not r