# Conor Kotwasinski

> Software Engineer at STR | Northwestern CS

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/conorkotwasinski

Computer Systems Engineer building low-latency, mission-critical systems at the intersection of hardware and software. Specializing in bare-metal and RTOS development, kernel-level optimization, and FPGA integration.

Currently engineering performance-sensitive embedded infrastructure at STR with an active TS clearance.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ STR
Jan 2024 – Present
- Engineered low-latency kernel-bypass and DMA drivers achieving sub-microsecond latencies with <1% overhead for mission-critical real-time systems
- Developed high-performance eBPF instrumentation and QEMU/KVM virtualization layers, optimizing CPU cache utilization and memory access patterns for bare-metal performance targets
- Built embedded RTOS firmware with FPGA integration, implementing cache-aware scheduling and lock-free data paths for deterministic real-time execution

### Software Engineer @ Leidos
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Architected real-time data pipeline processing 15K messages/s using Apache Kafka for national security applications

### Software Engineer @ Luabase
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
- Architected a high-throughput OLAP pipeline ingesting millions of social posts with ClickHouse, applying NLP sentiment analysis to extract real-time market signals with sub-second analytical query performance across billions of records
- Designed a low-latency streaming pipeline correlating social trend signals with on-chain price action using materialized views and AggregatingMergeTree, powering predictive trading insights at millisecond query latencies

### Software Engineer Summer Intern @ CIPIO.ai
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Fairfax County, Virginia, United States


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Northwestern University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Northwestern University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/conor-kotwasinski
- Portfolio: https://conorkotwasinski.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13