Teaching

I have been involved in designing and running courses at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam during my PhD. I have also assisted with courses during my bachelors and master studies.

Year(s) Course University Academic Level Role
2020 - 2024 Distributed Systems VU MSc Head TA
2019 Distributed Systems VU MSc TA
2020 - 2022 Storage Systems VU MSc TA
2018 Distributed Systems TU Delft MSc TA
2018 Big Data Processing TU Delft BSc TA
2015 - 2016 System Software DA-IICT BSc TA
2015 - 2016 Object-oriented Programming DA-IICT BSc TA


I have supervised the following student projects at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Computer Science BSc and MSc programs:

Year Student Name Project Title Project Type Recognition
2025 Ritul Satish Mewbie: Scale-Adjustable Benchmark for Microservice Deployments MSc Thesis  
2025 Ritul Satish Performance Characterization of Data Store Event Trigger Mechanisms for Serverless Computing MSc Independent Research Project Conference paper
2024 Anders Nõu Investigating Performance Overhead of Distributed Tracing in Microservices and Serverless Systems MSc Thesis Workshop paper
2024 Prashant Dommaraju Erroneous Kubernetes Object Generation using Structure-aware Fuzzing MSc Thesis  
2024 Lennart Schulz ShareBench: Performance Characterization of Distributed Resource-Sharing Mechanisms BSc Thesis Workshop paper
2024 Karina Sudnicina Task-in-Pod Scheduling Support for Kubernetes and Apache Spark Stack BSc Thesis Runner-up best thesis
2023 Aratz Manterola Lasa Understanding Datacenter Scheduler Programming Abstractions: Reference Architecture Design, Scheduler Analysis, and Cost Quantification MSc Thesis Conference paper
2022 Aratz Manterola Lasa Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Container Migrations in Datacenter Scheduling MSc Independent Research Project  
2022 Bogdan Ene Design, implementation, and evaluation of data intensive applications in cluster and serverless environments MSc Thesis Workshop paper
2022 Jakob Kyselica Analysis of Failures in Massive-Scale Multiplayer Online Games MSc Thesis (With Jesse Donkervliet)  
2022 Shane Minnema A Statistical Analysis of Cloud Service Failures by Source, Popularity, and Severity MSc Thesis  
2022 Jelena Masic Design and Experimental Exploration of Operational Techniques for Serverless Graph Processing BSc Thesis  
2022 Muhammad Ahsan The OpenDC Microservice Simulator: Design, Implementation, and Experimentation BSc Thesis  
2022 Mehmet Cetin Characterizing User and Provider Reported Cloud Failures BSc Thesis  
2021 Kai Zhang Multi-detector Framework to Detect and Localize Failures in Microservice Applications MSc Thesis  
2020 Nick Tehrany Evaluating Performance Characteristics of the PMDK Persistent Memory Software Stack BSc Thesis (With Animesh Trivedi) ADS best thesis