Farid Zandi
Research Assistant at University of Toronto
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolFarid Zandi is a research-focused software engineer and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto with a decade of experience building scalable infrastructure for ML and distributed systems. His work spans network-aware load balancing for large-scale ML clusters, live migration of stateful virtualized network functions, and resilient SDN controller migration—blending systems research with practical emulation and simulator extensions. Prior projects include Tor traffic fingerprinting and production-grade push-notification and ad-publishing platforms, showing fluency across privacy-sensitive networking and real-world web services. Based in Old Toronto, he combines strong academic rigor from Sharif University and U of T with hands-on engineering that repeatedly bridges simulators, emulators, and deployed systems. An understated strength is his habit of extending tooling (e.g., NS2/Mininet) to enable reproducible evaluations of complex distributed behaviors.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, Mathematics & Physics, High School, Mathematics & Physics at Allameh Helli schoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of TorontoBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
Persian, English
Github Skills (17)
gitweb6
anonymize6
modification5
nasm5
java5
simulator4
multicore4
python4
git-repository4
prebuild3
tor3
markdown3
simulation3
x862
scalable2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
FaridZandi/Final-Fantasy-XVI
Apr 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:33 commits, 14 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 6 months
javaadvanced-programmingpythonprogramming-project
FaridZandi/psim
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Protocol Simulator
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 367 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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