Summary
Mogami L is a seasoned engine developer and tech lead with 14 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and production services, currently at Fortinet. His background spans low-level Linux C++ systems, RDMA-accelerated distributed training, and large-scale online recommendation platforms, with measurable wins such as 200% speedups on distributed ML workloads and production support for million-QPS events. A prolific researcher as well as practitioner, he has about 200 citations across peer-reviewed systems papers and has blended academic rigor with hands-on engineering from SFU research to industry. Comfortable owning design through deployment and on-call reliability, he brings deep expertise in parallel computing, memory and cache locality, crash consistency, and networking stacks. Notably, he transitioned from PhD work into impactful engineering roles, combining research-led insight with pragmatic system delivery.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Software Engineering at Shenzhen University
Master of Science in Computing Science, PhD Dropout, Master of Science in Computing Science, PhD Dropout at Simon Fraser University
Chinese, English