Quality Assurance Access Control

Home Benchmarks Software Miscellaneous

Resume for Samy Al Bahra

Location: New York, NY

Citizenship: United States of America

E-mail: ******@******.***

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/samy-bahra/28/646/832Technical Skills

Computer Architectures

x86, x86_64, ...

Programming Languages

C, R, LUA, Haskell, Unified Parallel C, ...

Operating Systems

FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, Solaris, ...Commercial Work

AppNexus, Inc.

June 2011 - Present.

Part of the core team working on a low latency/high throughput advertising platform.

Message Systems, Inc.

May 2010 - May 2011.

Engineer for high performance messaging platform that is the driving force for multiple

product lines. Helped solve long-standing technical issues and developed several core

facilities including a high performance generic cache, low latency delivery protocol

implementation, targeted string processing functionality (SSE2-SSE4.2), scalable counters,

synchronization facilities and more.

Magnolia Labs, Inc.

September 2009.

Implemented light-weight customer relationship management system with voicemail

integration.

SureSec, Inc.

October 2006.

Ported FreeBSD jails (for process namespace and resource isolation) to Mac OS X.

Xeca, Inc.

July 2004.

Penetration testing and implemented security improvements to the FreeBSD ARP cache in the

form of selectable per-entry per-interface expiration behavior.

Subcontractor

October 2003.

Developed C# client for .NET-based camera surveillance system.

and more...

Recent Academic Experience

Arctic Region Supercomputing CenterResearch Assistant, performance evaluation of ccNUMA high performance computing cluster

and analysis of synchronization algorithms, Summer 2008.

The George Washington University, Electrical/Computer Engineering DepartmentResearch Assistant, The George Washington University High Performance Computing

Laboratory, Fall 2006 - Spring 2009.

Published Research

Working Papers

Performance Evaluation of Clusters with ccNUMA Nodes - A Case Study, with Abullah Kayi,

Edward Kornkven, Tarek El-Ghazawi and Gregory Newby (HPCC 2008).

Parallel Programming of High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing Systems with Unified

Parallel C, with Tarek El-Ghazawi, Olivier Serres, Miaoqing Huang and Esam El-Araby (RSSI

2008).

Using the PGAS Programming Paradigm for Biological Sequence Alignment on a Chip Multi-

Threading Architecture, with Mohamed Bakhouya (PDCS 2008).

Related Software

guts, a UPC 1.2 standards compliance testing suite for UPC compiler and runtime

implementations, with Abdullah Kayi and Olivier Serres (2008).

gca, interface definition language and run-time system for portable and type-safe

interaction with FGPA core I/O (supports SGI RASC and Cray XD1 platforms) (2007).

ubf, a binary file format for FPGA core storage and retrieval with support for SGI RASC

and Cray XD1 platforms (2007).

libupcio, reference implementation of the parallel UPC/IO 1.2 specifications, with

Abdullah Kayi and Kun Xi (2006).

Talks

Conference Presentations

The UPC/IO Library, Specification and Reference Implementation, The Second Partitioned

Global Address Space (PGAS) Programming Models Conference, The George Washington

University, September 28, 2006.

The TrustedBSD Mandatory Access Control Framework, HackInTheBox 2005, October 3, 2005.

Non-Profit Work

Concurrency Kit

A library to ease the design and development of scalable and correct concurrent systems

in the C programming language (February 2011).

svnmanage

Implemented subversion repository, access list and user credentials management software

for the George Washington University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Project extended repository metadata to support notion of project ownership (June 2006).

TrustedBSD

Implemented credential-related mandatory access control framework entry points for the

FreeBSD kernel (and the TrustedBSD project), implemented system hardening policy in the

form of a credential access list implementation and implemented FreeBSD ports for MAC

policies (June 2005).

nvclock

Ported software-based nVidia graphics card overclocking tool to the FreeBSD platform by

adding support for the FreeBSD PCI sub-system, with Roderick Colenbrander (August 2003).

wnews

Implemented portable RSS news client with terminal and GUI interface frontends for POSIX

operating systems, with Mohamad Susli and Ulf Lilleengen (December 2002).

Arabeyes

Ported tool for bidirectional text rendering to the FreeBSD platform and worked on

software quality assurance through source-code audits (June 2002).

and more...

Additional Code Samples

Not that they are very representive, but you may find additional code samples at

http://repnop.org/carte/snippets/

Awards

Message Systems, Inc.

Recipient of the first Momentum Award to the core engineering group. Rewarded for client

care and innovation.References

Available on request. c 2007 - 2012 Samy Al Bahra

Contact this candidate