Ishraq Ashraf
IBM Z Firmware Developer
Filderstadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolIshraq Ashraf is an experienced firmware and embedded systems engineer with 12 years of hands-on work across core networking and device-level software, currently developing firmware for IBM Z systems in Filderstadt, Germany. His background spans low-level device firmware, Linux kernel driver optimization, and JavaScript-based tooling from his multi-year tenure at Tinkerforge, plus earlier core network software and monitoring tools developed in a telecom environment. He combines an electrical engineering foundation with a completed MS in Embedded Systems and partial graduate work in signal processing, enabling a strong cross-disciplinary approach to hardware-software integration. Colleagues describe him as versatile—comfortable from kernel internals to higher-level developer tooling—and he maintains an active GitHub presence to showcase practical projects and prototypes. Notably, his career shows a pattern of building pragmatic infrastructure: from CDR and link monitoring systems to production-grade firmware for mainframe-class hardware.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS (Incomplete), Electrical Systems Engineering (Signal and Information Processing), Master of Science - MS (Incomplete), Electrical Systems Engineering (Signal and Information Processing) at Paderborn UniversityBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at American International University-Bangladesh
German, Bengali, English
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Github Skills (101)
video-conferencing10
collaborative-editing10
internet10
onlyoffice10
pdf-generation10
qt-gui10
collaboration10
document-management10
dms10
software-update10
etherpad10
api10
coap10
freertos10
docx10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
iia/blue-switch-bots
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 release, 54 commits, 50 pushes in 20 days
Tinkerforge/red-brick
May 2014 - Dec 2019
Executes user programs and controls other Bricks/Bricklets standalone
Contributions:535 commits, 255 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 7 months
brickletsbricksprogramsstandalone
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