Asser Tantawi
Research Staff Member at IBM
Town of Yorktown, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarAsser N. Tantawi is a research staff member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center with a Ph.D. in computer science from Rutgers and over four decades of continuous research experience in systems modeling, stochastic analysis, and resource optimization. He has a prolific publication record and has served in editorial and lecturing roles for ACM and IEEE, reflecting both deep technical expertise and thought leadership. At IBM he applies model-based control and queueing theory to cloud optimization and workload management, translating theoretical insights into practical resource-balancing solutions. More recently he has contributed open-source backend work to the Kubernetes scheduler ecosystem, developing a LoadVariationRiskBalancing plugin that integrates risk-aware scheduling into the scheduler framework. Colleagues value his ability to bridge rigorous stochastic modeling with hands-on system engineering to tackle real-world performance and scaling challenges. Based in Yorktown Heights, NY, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to drive measurable improvements in complex distributed systems.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
plugin-development10
kubernetes10
go10
api10
task-scheduler10
apidoc10
plugin10
kubernetes-pods10
job-scheduler10
scheduler10
testing9
configuration-management8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/scheduler-plugins
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Repository for out-of-tree scheduler plugins based on scheduler framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 reviews, 7 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Asser primarily contributed to the development of the `LoadVariationRiskBalancing` plugin for the Kubernetes scheduler. Their work involved adding the plugin's APIs and documentation, including generated conversion functions and deepcopy implementations for configuration types. They also integrated the plugin with the scheduler framework, modifying test scenarios and addressing potential integration issues. This suggests a focus on core plugin functionality and its integration within the scheduling system.
schedulerk8s-sig-schedulingout-of-tree
IBM/kube-safe-scheduler
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:14 commits, 15 PRs, 12 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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