Dilawer Ahmed
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDilawer Ahmed is a software engineer with 8 years of experience blending security, networking, and full-stack development, currently building software at Microsoft in Mountain View. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from NC State and a BS from LUMS, with research and industry experience in computer and network security, ML, and performance optimization. His background includes internships and roles at Google and Microsoft, academic research that parallelized legacy code for up to 30x speedups, and leadership as CTO at a fintech startup. Comfortable moving between research and production, he has repeatedly rewritten and modernized systems to improve security and scalability. Known for the motto “reinventing the wheel is the only way to invent better wheels,” he combines academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to deliver faster, more secure software. Based in Silicon Valley, he brings a researcher’s curiosity to practical product problems and large-scale systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at North Carolina State University
Stackoverflow
1reputation
0reached
0answers
0questions
Github Skills (4)
linux7
macos6
react5
nextjs4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dilawer11/Smmar-International-Web
Jan 2020 - May 2024
Static Web Application of Smmar International
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
web-application
dilawer11/strider-gaming
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
A Startup Promoting E-Sports in Pakistan
Contributions:45 commits, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
reactpakistanreactjssportsnextjs
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.