Summary
Forhad Ahmed is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance networking and systems software, currently contributing at Arista Networks after a long tenure at Cisco. He combines deep C/C++ expertise, strong OS and Linux kernel knowledge, and practical experience with IP networking, L2/L3 routing and BGP to deliver robust, low-level implementations. Comfortable across the stack, he has worked with asynchronous event-driven architectures and Unix environments while also contributing earlier in web and simulation projects. Based in Dublin, Ohio, he brings a track record of solving protocol and performance challenges in production network platforms and a background that spans both systems internals and applied developer tooling.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at The Ohio State University