Ali Siddiqui
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco
San Bruno, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Siddiqui is a software engineering technical leader with 16 years of hands-on experience in embedded systems, hardware security and cryptographic engineering, currently leading software efforts at Cisco. He holds a PhD in Electrical/Computer Engineering focused on secure boot for reconfigurable architectures and has blended academic research with industry work across Cisco, AMD and Intuitive Surgical to deliver secure firmware, TPM/TrustZone integrations and secure update/PKI systems. Comfortable across low-level languages (C/C++, assembly), hardware description languages (VHDL/Verilog/SystemC) and FPGA toolchains, he pairs deep side-channel and reverse-engineering expertise with practical multithreaded software and tooling experience. Notably, he has driven device-timing and parser projects for FPGA toolchains and implemented production-ready cryptographic solutions for surgical systems—demonstrating an uncommon bridge between chip-to-system security and product delivery. Based in San Bruno, CA, he brings a track record of shipping secure embedded solutions for safety- and security-critical domains.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Engineering at Florida Institute of TechnologyM. Engg. Computer Information Systems, M. Engg. Computer Information Systems at NED University of Engineering and TechnologyBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at University of North Carolina at CharlotteMaster of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at The University of Texas at ArlingtonMaster of Science (M.S.) Embedded Computing, Master of Science (M.S.) Embedded Computing at Turun yliopisto - University of Turku
English, Urdu, German, Finnish
Github Skills (33)
r7
cuda6
regression6
data-mining6
kaggle6
machine-learning6
python6
classification6
computation6
gpu5
gradient5
java5
cpu5
data-science5
big-data4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alishuja/networkled
Apr 2010 - Jun 2012
Contributions:8 commits in 2 years 2 months
alishuja/csmith
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Csmith, a random generator of C programs
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 6 months
c-programsrandom-generatorrandom-generationprograms
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