Suleman Ahmad
Senior Research Engineer at Cloudflare
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSuleman Ahmad is a Senior Research Engineer at Cloudflare with eight years of experience building measurement-driven, security-focused systems at the intersection of product engineering and internet research. He has a strong academic foundation from UW–Madison where his thesis and graduate assistant roles centered on detecting real-world authentication attacks and engineering measurement infrastructures. His work spans internet measurement, network privacy, applied machine learning for cybersecurity, and distributed systems, with multiple collaborations that led to top-tier publications. At Cloudflare he progressed from R&D intern to lead research software engineer, shipping features like a TLS/SSL recommender that improved security for a large fraction of customers. Outside work he pursues cross-disciplinary MOOCs—ranging from biology to economics—and still finds time to read xkcd, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity that informs his research and engineering.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Urdu
Github Skills (32)
markdown10
cloudflare10
mdx10
ed255199
pki8
cryptography8
pass-extension8
post-quantum8
apl7
golang7
go7
preloading7
relational-algebra6
code-golf6
certificate-transparency5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
open-mpic/draft-mpic
Aug 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 review, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
SulemanAhmadd/draft-ietf-ppm-dap
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
This document describes the Distributed Aggregation Protocol (DAP) being developed by the PPM working group at IETF.
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 17 days
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