Nov 2022 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• As a full-time doctoral researcher at TU Darmstadt Germany, I was also a joint PhD candidate at Innovation Office (Global Cloud Services) of SAP. At SAP my research was based on smartNICs, AI hardware accelerators, SAP HANA database and distributed storage.
• ● I was also one of the co-authors of internal publication regarding AI Hardware Accelerators.
• ● I developed a complete end-to-end software-hardware co-design FPGA framework using 16nm chip
• Alveo U280 that was later tested on industrial benchmarks.

Oct 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos

• From 2019 till 2024, I was a full-time PhD candidate at Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. My research was based on distributed storage and networks. I continue working on storage and network topics. I make sure that a significant part of work is hands-on i.e., working on open-source codebases and some of my own codebases.

Oct 2019 – Sep 2024 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany

• ● As a PhD candidate I'm part of Embedded Systems and Applications (ESA) stellar group at Computer
• Science department of TU Darmstadt. My research is based on accelerating systems (mainly distributed
• storage) through FPGA-based hardware accelerators.
• ● I have also worked with our industrial partner called Xelera Technologies (a software provider for high-
• speed networking technology and machine learning applications) in a joint project.
• ● Part of Computer Science admissions committee for Master in CS programs
• ● Worked on following FPGAs and GPUs: AMD (Xilinx) Alveo U250, AMD (Xilinx) Alveo U280, Xilinx VC709,
• AMD Versal™ Adaptive SoCs, NVIDIA A100 GPU, NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA - Vector Engine

Jul 2019 – Sep 2019 · 2 mos · Bremen Area, Germany

• Text Control is a vendor of word processing and reporting components for Microsoft development technologies. The company is also a Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner.
• My work was based on:
• ) Microsoft .NET Applications / Common Language Runtime (CLR)
• ) Windows Forms / WPF
• ) Software Obfuscation with focus on Windows Kernel using "C++/CLI" programming language.
• ) Technical Documentation
• The main programming language I had worked with was Csharp (C#).

Jun 2019 – Jul 2019 · 1 mo · Bremen Area, Germany

• Daimler AG previously named Daimler-Benz and Daimler Chrysler is a German multinational automotive corporation. I was part of production plant.

May 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo · Cologne Area, Germany

• In the city of Duisburg, in the Ruhr district, Intel teams were developing cutting-edge technologies in the field of chip systems for mobile communications using mobile handsets. Assignments encompass the full spectrum, from the concept phase, through hardware and firmware design, to product tests and customer service.
• I was part of Verification Management Flow department (pre-silicon verification). My work was related to Verification and Validation of System-on-Chip (SoC) requirements. Meanwhile I also did my thesis at Intel and achieved the highest possible grade (Note 1.0, excellent).
• Some of my overall tasks were:
• ) High-Level Synthesis (HLS)
• ) Developing OOP UVM testbenches in SystemVerilog for verification of Verilog and VHDL RTLs.
• ) Developed an automated compiler in Java for the generation of hardware test cases.
• ) Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) / Formal Language Design
• ) Regression testing for functional verification
• ) Research on contemporary verification techniques in context of Deep Learning models.
• ) Technical documentation including a submission to Intel’s internal conference.

Sep 2017 – Oct 2017 · 1 mo · Bremen Area, Germany

Sep 2016 – Mar 2017 · 6 mos · Munich Area, Germany

• ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE (officially abbreviated as P7S1, formerly ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG) is a European mass media company, based in Germany. It operates free-to-air commercial TV channels, pay television channels, radio stations and related print businesses. It also operates advertising platform solutions through AdTech and SevenVentures, and is working on new digital platforms.
• ) one of the biggest playout centers in Europe transmitting linear channels and pay tv channels.
• ) tested broadcast and IT systems installed in central apparatus rooms.
• ) attended workshops and training related to emerging technologies in the field of media and broadcasting.
• Workshops attended:
• ) SONY IP based Production
• ) Nevion Video over IP
• ) Dataminer Skyline

Oct 2010 – Mar 2015 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Lahore, Pakistan · On-site

• Here I did everything related to Television Engineering.
• provided technical support of the broadcasting and networking equipment installed in three master control rooms, three production control rooms, Network Operation Center (NOC) and central newsroom.
• Four annual relaunch projects (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
• Worked on Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) production

Aug 2009 – Oct 2009 · 2 mos · Lahore

• Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) is an electric distribution company which supplies electricity to Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. I worked as an intern electrical engineer in grid station of LESCO for a period of four weeks.

Jul 2007 – Oct 2007 · 3 mos · Lahore, Pakistan

• ACS was/is a Lahore based call center. I worked as a Telesales Representative for a UK campaign as part time for 2-3 months. My first job ever and I ended up making top sales.