Summary
Suleman Ahmad is a Senior Research Engineer at Cloudflare with eight years of experience building measurement-driven, security-focused systems at the intersection of product engineering and internet research. He has a strong academic foundation from UW–Madison where his thesis and graduate assistant roles centered on detecting real-world authentication attacks and engineering measurement infrastructures. His work spans internet measurement, network privacy, applied machine learning for cybersecurity, and distributed systems, with multiple collaborations that led to top-tier publications. At Cloudflare he progressed from R&D intern to lead research software engineer, shipping features like a TLS/SSL recommender that improved security for a large fraction of customers. Outside work he pursues cross-disciplinary MOOCs—ranging from biology to economics—and still finds time to read xkcd, reflecting a pragmatic curiosity that informs his research and engineering.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Lahore University of Management Sciences
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Urdu