Ahmad Byagowi
Research Scientist at turbalance
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAhmad Byagowi is a research scientist and entrepreneur with over a decade of experience advancing time and frequency synchronization for hyperscale distributed systems. He leads the Open Compute Project’s Time Appliances Project, co-founded Wi-Wi STAMP Inc., and builds practical reference architectures and precision tools that make datacenter-grade time distribution reliable and scalable. Previously he researched synchronization at Meta and teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Manitoba, bridging academic rigor with production-scale engineering. His hands-on work includes embedded systems and IoT integrations for the Time Card project, demonstrating low-level sensor and I2C expertise alongside systems design. Based in Menlo Park with dual doctoral training in electrical engineering and computer science, he focuses on making clocks behave like “pseudo-entangled” references to minimize coordination overhead across distributed services. Colleagues know him for turning deep clocking theory into deployable standards and tools that reduce network chatter while improving system consistency.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Manitoba
English, German, Arabic, Persian
Github Skills (9)
i2c10
embedded10
script10
bash10
sys10
system-integration10
interfacing10
hardware-interface10
sensor-fusion10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Time-Appliances-Project/Time-Card
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Develop an end-to-end hypothetical reference model, network architectures, precision time tools, performance objectives and the methods to distribute, operate, monitor time synchronization within data center and much more...
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 247 commits, 15 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ahmad primarily contributed to the project by developing and testing sensor integrations within the time-card system. Their work involved writing and modifying bash scripts to interface with various I2C-based sensors, including the BNO055, BMP280, SSD1306, TSL2572, SI7020, and AD7414. They created scripts to initialize, configure, read data from, and display sensor readings, showcasing a hands-on approach to hardware interaction and data acquisition.
monitorsdnload-balancinglinearizabilitymonitoring
ahmadexp/Open-Source-PC110
Jan 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1 release, 482 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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