Naseer Ahmed
Senior System Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Pickering, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNaseer Ahmed is a Senior System Software Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in Linux and Android display and graphics stacks, currently contributing at NVIDIA after a long tenure at Qualcomm. He has led cross-functional teams that delivered display features and color management for flagship devices including Google Nexus and Pixel phones, and has deep expertise across the stack from Linux drivers to Android framework. A hands-on engineer and architect, he has implemented system-level optimizations like triple framebuffer support in upstream Android frameworks and driven CI/tooling improvements to streamline driver delivery as technology packages. Comfortable in C, C++, Rust, and Python, he blends low-level debugging and performance tuning with higher-level feature design and product delivery across mobile, XR, IoT, and wearables. Notably, he has a track record of shipping fixes for hot-plug display handling and preventing runtime crashes in hardware composer interactions—work that quietly improves end-user reliability. Based in Pickering, Ontario, he pairs formal M.Tech training with practical experience bringing complex display systems to production at scale.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High school, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High school, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at St. Georges Grammar School, HyderabadM.Tech, IT, M.Tech, IT at International Institute of Information Technology BangaloreB.E, Electronics and Comm, B.E, Electronics and Comm at Osmania University
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
system-design10
surf10
surface-flinger10
cprogramming-language10
android-framework10
abstraction-layer9
hal9
opengl7
macos6
android-emulator6
vim6
nodejs6
android6
bash6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
CyanogenMod/android_frameworks_native
Jun 2012 - Jan 2015
Role in this project:
System Architect / Software Architect
System Architect / Software ArchitectContributions:20 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Naseer contributed to the Android frameworks native repository, focusing on system-level modifications and optimizations. Their work included adding support for triple framebuffers, which impacts display handling. They also modified display configurations and Hardware Composer (HWC) interactions, improving performance by leveraging hardware capabilities. Furthermore, they addressed display configuration clearing during hot-plug events and added a check to prevent crashes related to incorrect display configuration handling.
naseer/naseer.github.io
Jan 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 9 months
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