Summary
Ariful Islam is a Technical Lead with 11 years of experience specializing in SDK and systems development for high-performance networking silicon, currently leading Traffic Manager SDK design for Cisco’s Silicon One ASIC. He architects and implements TM APIs and features that enable advanced queuing, scheduling, buffering, and congestion control, driving cross-functional collaboration with ASIC architects, firmware, and platform teams to deliver production-grade hardware–software integration. His background blends deep academic rigor—a PhD in Computer Science with roles as a postdoc at CMU and assistant professor at Texas Tech—with hands-on C/C++ systems engineering and applied algorithmic expertise. Comfortable translating formal methods and research into pragmatic, scalable solutions, he focuses on system performance, reliability, and operationalizing complex TM architectures. Based in Dhaka and holding diverse experience from finance analytics to biomedical modeling, he brings an unusually broad perspective to networking problems and a track record of turning theoretical insight into deployable software.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science & Engineering, BSc Computer Science & Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Bangla