Ahmed Bashandy, Phd Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, United States

California, United States

▪ Architect a Cloud-Native, distributed, fault tolerant, segment routing Applications infrastructure to accommodate online computations such as create/delete/manage segment routing policies and/or RSVP tunnels, as well as offline data-crunching applications. o Design complete multi-container heterogeneous redundant and distributed system that includes internally coded applications encompassing proprietary and open source code, open source applications, routers, VMs, and DBMS’s to perform… Show more ▪ Architect a Cloud-Native, distributed, fault tolerant, segment routing Applications infrastructure to accommodate online computations such as create/delete/manage segment routing policies and/or RSVP tunnels, as well as offline data-crunching applications. o Design complete multi-container heterogeneous redundant and distributed system that includes internally coded applications encompassing proprietary and open source code, open source applications, routers, VMs, and DBMS’s to perform analytics by combining data from control plane and data plane o Implementation and coding using C and golang by incorporating CGO and utilizing open source code such as libcurl, libsqlite, and google protobuf templates▪ Contributed to industry standards through active participation in Standards Bodies, including the IETF, shaping the evolution of critical networking protocols. o Revitalized and spearheaded the successful standardization of the IETF draft "draft-ietf-rtgwg-segment-routing-ti-lfa" after 5+ years of effort by building strategic alliances, addressing key objections and gaining consensus, which safeguarded Cisco's strategic segment routing feature against potential loss. o Co-author draft-ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensions and help advancing it to become RFC 9352 (IS-IS Extensions for SRv6, December 2023)▪ Authored and secured approval for the Product Requirement Document of a limited availability release within one month, overcoming extreme resource constraints and meeting tight deadlines by uniting developers and PLMs around the project's objectives. Show less

San Jose, California, United States

▪ Collaborated to engineer software and infrastructure for next-generation multi-terabit routers, driving advancements in high-performance networking hardware and enabling scalable data processing for future-proof network solutions.▪ Architected and led the development of next-generation network infrastructure, integrating cutting-edge technologies and innovative design principles to deliver high-performance solutions to drive business growth.▪ Architect and implement a shared memory… Show more ▪ Collaborated to engineer software and infrastructure for next-generation multi-terabit routers, driving advancements in high-performance networking hardware and enabling scalable data processing for future-proof network solutions.▪ Architected and led the development of next-generation network infrastructure, integrating cutting-edge technologies and innovative design principles to deliver high-performance solutions to drive business growth.▪ Architect and implement a shared memory pool with AVL and binary search trees. Any number of containers and/or processes can concurrently allocate/free blocks from the pool as well as sharing multiple AVL trees and concurrently insert/delete/lookup/walk any number of objects. The pool survives some or all containers/processes restart.▪ Design and coding on shared memory queue for high speed point-to-point and point-to-multi-point inter-container and intra-container messaging▪ Design of bulk download of records and entries on a distributed system. Allows the downloading process running on a control card to download millions of routes to tens of linecards connected via an ethernet network. The design supports heterogeneous linecards with different memory and CPU power as well as handling skew in linecard speed. The design also handles online insertion and removal (OIR) of linecards allowing linecards to be pulled out and inserted into the chassis at will as well as restarting dataplane software▪ Design of PIM-SSM multicast mode including MFIB and dataplane programming coupled with IGMP snooping. Show less

Milpitas, California

▪ Developed software for white box systems as well as servers focused on securing and monitoring network activity, ensuring robust network protection and real-time surveillance to safeguard against potential threats and vulnerabilities.▪ Lead projects such as o Design and modification of Routing Information Base (RIB) on the open-source Free Range Routing (FRR) to manage Vector Packet Processor (VPP) restartability o Extend the FRR network stack to accommodate the Elisity… Show more ▪ Developed software for white box systems as well as servers focused on securing and monitoring network activity, ensuring robust network protection and real-time surveillance to safeguard against potential threats and vulnerabilities.▪ Lead projects such as o Design and modification of Routing Information Base (RIB) on the open-source Free Range Routing (FRR) to manage Vector Packet Processor (VPP) restartability o Extend the FRR network stack to accommodate the Elisity requirements Show less

San Jose, California

Although it was a short period, I was able to Delivered tailored solutions to meet client-specific requirements while ensuring high-quality code and efficient project execution across diverse environments.

▪ Designed software for white box systems, optimizing performance and functionality to meet industry demands for flexible, customizable network solutions.▪ Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement advanced software solutions, ensuring the delivery of scalable and high-performance systems across cloud and on-premise environments.▪ Design and implementation of MPLS label manager to support multiple concurrent clients as well as client processes… Show more ▪ Designed software for white box systems, optimizing performance and functionality to meet industry demands for flexible, customizable network solutions.▪ Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement advanced software solutions, ensuring the delivery of scalable and high-performance systems across cloud and on-premise environments.▪ Design and implementation of MPLS label manager to support multiple concurrent clients as well as client processes restartability▪ Design and implementation of ISIS Graceful Restart (RFC5306)▪ Design and implementation of FIB process restart with zero impact on traffic forwarding Show less

▪ Managed cross-functional teams, coordinating design, development, and integration efforts between IOS-XR and platform-specific teams to ensure seamless delivery of high-performance solutions.▪ Provided advanced debugging expertise, resolving critical production issues and enhancing network stability in customer environments.▪ Mentored and coached engineers, fostering talent growth and continuous learning while leading teams in delivering impactful engineering… Show more ▪ Managed cross-functional teams, coordinating design, development, and integration efforts between IOS-XR and platform-specific teams to ensure seamless delivery of high-performance solutions.▪ Provided advanced debugging expertise, resolving critical production issues and enhancing network stability in customer environments.▪ Mentored and coached engineers, fostering talent growth and continuous learning while leading teams in delivering impactful engineering solutions.▪ Contributed to industry standards and protocols, participating in IETF standard bodies to influence the future of networking technologies on a global scale.▪ Lead a multitude of collaborative, multi-site, multi-timezone projects, some of which are carrying the majority of the Internet traffic for over a decade, such as Segment Routing, IP-FRR, rLFA, BGP-PIC, FIB, MFIB▪ Segment Routing o Coded first ever implementation of SR-MPLS in ISIS o Lead first ever release of SR-MPLS as well as Topology Independent Loop-Free Alternate (Ti-LFA), a technology to recover traffic, within 50ms, from link, node, or SRLG failure irrespective of the topology. The project spanned about one years with more than 17 engineers and managers in 4 different locations around the world o IETF proposed standards, white papers, and patents o Participation in mathematical derivations of Ti-LFA and uloop avoidance algorithms o Participation in SRv6 design▪ Led architecting, design, and implementation of early fast convergence projects o Design of BGP Fast ReRoute (BGP-FRR), a technology that allows traffic recovery, within 50ms, from a complete BGP node failure o IP fast ReRoute (IP-FRR) and Remote Loop Free Alternate (rLFA): Lead IP-FRR implementation (including design, coding, testing, and managing) on IOS-XR and IOS-XE o BGP Prefix Independent Convergence (BGP-PIC): Lead design and implementation) of BGP-PIC on IOS-XR Show less

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Egyptian Student Association: Treasurer and President

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science