Summary
M Awal is a Software Engineering Manager at Intel with 16+ years in telecom and semiconductor domains and a PhD in Computer Science, blending deep research experience with hands-on systems engineering. He leads and mentors teams building high-performance networking stacks and SmartNIC/IPU enablement (DPDK, OVS-DPDK, P4) and has driven production-grade user-space TCP and IPsec implementations and QoS/DPI solutions. His background spans academia and industry—from wireless resource optimization and mesh testbeds during his PhD to shipping 100G SmartNIC features and Kubernetes/Istio workload characterizations at Intel. A pragmatic tech lead and former scrum master, he pairs people management with code-level contribution and has published, presented, and patented work in networking and systems. Based in Ireland, he brings a rare combination of protocol-stack expertise, hardware acceleration know-how, and applied machine learning for network analytics.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Asian Institute of Technology
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at American International University-Bangladesh
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Université Paris-Saclay
French, Bengali, Hindi, English