Nabeel Akhtar
Principal Engineer - SRE - Network Architecture at Akamai Technologies
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNabeel Akhtar is a Principal Engineer specializing in SRE and network architecture with nine years of experience building and modeling large-scale backbone and cloud networks. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Boston University and has applied rigorous optimization and modeling techniques to capacity planning, traffic routing, and NFV/SDN orchestration at Akamai and in academic research. His background spans serverless resource allocation, edge computing, mmWave and VANET communication modeling, and practical anomaly-detection systems deployed on Spark clusters. Known for translating complex mathematical models into production tooling, he couples deep research instincts with hands-on systems engineering to improve reliability and performance at internet scale. Based in New York, he brings a rare combination of academic rigor and product-focused delivery to network virtualization and cloud resource management challenges.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Lahore University of Management SciencesMaster’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Koç UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Boston University
Github Skills (7)
prediction5
tensorflow2
machine-learning2
deep-learning2
latency2
python2
low-latency1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
akhtarnabeel/akhtarnabeel.github.io
Jan 2018 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 290 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
akhtarnabeel/ELSEC
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
EL-SEC: ELastic Management of SECurity Applications on Virtualized Infrastructure
Contributions:2 PRs, 57 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
elasticsecurityinfrastructurevirtualizedsec
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