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Education City, Qatar

As part of the Senior Staff, I'm leading two core projects at QCRI, namely Fanar LLM Apps (e.g., TokenX, aiXamine) and the Cybersecurity Initiative for Blockchain Research. This involves leading cross-functional development among teams of 10+ scientists and engineers, working with local stakeholders and focal points to scope out new use cases across.

Doha, Qatar

Founded QuickByte as a remote-first tech venture studio to satisfy the market's need in Qatar. I built an amazing team that combined design/engineering expertise, operational support, and capital to turn ideas into lean startups. Notably, we bootstrapped Lobbyz, a social e-commerce app for food delivery, with a functional MVP and $100K in pre-seed funding.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Developed disruptive products, experimented with emerging technologies, and promoted lean innovation. As a full stack engineer, I worked with a wide array of technologies and languages such as Python, Flask, Django, NGINX, Tornado, MongoDB, MySQL, RAML, Blueprint, PHP, Vagrant, Ansible, Javascript, AngularJS, React Native, PhoneGap/Cordova, Objective-C.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Motivated by the rise of malicious socialbots, I worked on building scalable and robust defense systems to fight against abusive automation on the (social) web. My research has been covered by many international news outlets (e.g., BBC, CBC, New Scientist), and is currently being used by online services to protect millions of users (e.g., Tuenti.

San Francisco Bay Area

Designed, implemented, and evaluated a prototypical DBMS extension to Sketch, a distributed system for exploring large datasets. One application using the Sketch framework is a distributed spreadsheet for summarizing and visualizing large structured data at interactive speeds (i.e., few seconds). While Sketch performs data analytics computation in memory.

Barcelona Area, Spain

Designed, implemented, and evaluated a system for fake account detection in social networking websites. Along with the Big Data team, I deployed the system on top of Mahout and Giraph, where it delivered up to 30% improvement in classification AUC when compared to the state-of-the-art. The system scales nearly linearly with increasing user base, and it is.

San Francisco Bay Area

Designed, implemented, and evaluated a tera-scale system for IP address reputation and botnet detection. Along with the Site Integrity team, I deployed the system in beta on production servers, where it delivered an additional 25% in detection sensitivity when compared to existing detection systems.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Designed, implemented, and evaluated a system for automated malware detection using large-scale machine learning. Along with SophosLabs team, I deployed the system in beta on production servers,where it achieved 99.9% specificity and 30% sensitivity in malware detection, in addition to automatically generating effective malware signatures in Virus.

Stuttgart Area, Germany

Designed, implemented and benchmarked Lattice Boltzmann numerical methods on a massively parallel GPU cluster using CUDA. I integrated the vectorized methods into an existing software framework designed for highly parallel numerical algorithms on super-computers. In order to improve the overall performance, I also extended CUDA basic I/O libraries to.

Heidelberg Area, Germany

Performed performance analysis and code optimization for SAP NetWeaver. I also reported performance bugs in Intel C/C++ Compiler to Intel Compiler team. As an Intel employee working at SAP, I evangelized Intel software tools and technologies to the software community in SAP.

Heidelberg Area, Germany

Gave consultation and training on software vecorization using Intel SSE technology. I designed and developed a vectorization framework for decompressing in-memory data structures in TREX, which is the SAP NetWeaver search and classification engine. Along with the TREX team, I integrated the framework into SAP NetWeaver, where it achieved up to 2.1x speedup.

Stuttgart Area, Germany

Developed Symbian C communication plug-ins for 3PC PCOM middleware. I also performed experimentations to improve weighted centroid localization in smart ubiquitous environments. As part of my M.Sc. thesis, I designed and developed low-cost automatic configuration algorithms in J2ME for component-based pervasive applications.

Sultanate Of Oman

Designed, deployed, and tested Microsoft enterprise solutions and server infrastructure for mobile number portability across providers at Nawras, a mobile network operator. I also designed, deployed, and tested a virtualized product staging environment for business software development at Nawras.

Jordan

As a CCNA, CCDA, SCJP, MCP, MCSA, MCSE, and Certified Cisco Specialist in VoIP, Wireless Networking, and Sales, I gave Cisco and Microsoft solutions consultancy. Moreover, I lead a team of five to plan, design, implement, optimize and operate a campus-wide IEEE 802.11 wireless networking solution for the University of Jordan. I deployed a Cisco IP Telephony.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Engineering

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Information Technology

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Engineering