Mehryar Garakani

Broad experience in software engineering spanning more than 2 decades.

EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer V (L7)-Aditi Consulting @Meta (8/2022-4/2023)

• Worked as an outside contractor on a L2/L3 simulator based on NS3 to support hardware
  implementation of machine learning training network for RDMA based on meta-RoCE (C++)
• Designed and implemented congestion control algorithm for meta-ROCE for the training network
  (data center). Primary author for a patent (application in progress) at Meta for the congestion control
  algorithm.

Prinicipal Software Engineer - Media, Airtime (8/2020-7/2022)

• Refactored code for RTP header modification of webRTC video streams (C++)
• Implemented changes to support Forward Error Correction on subscriber stream (C++)
• Made enhancement to ulpFEC on publisher stream for media server (C++)

Fellow in Distributed Consensus, Insight (2020)

• Designed call flow for a Blockchain demo to support Pay-Per-Call micropayments (C)
• Implemented cryptographic security services using OpenSSL library (C)
• Implemented off-chain micropayments by integrating with Bitcoin/Lightning (Ubuntu)

Adjunct Professor/Researcher, San Diego State University (2013-2016)

• Taught graduate-level physics courses in radiological physics
• (co)Founded SDSU radiobiology lab to support student and faculty research
• Mentored graduate student research in radiological physics and radiobiology

Senior Principal Engineer, Ciena, San Jose CA (2009-2010)

• Responsible for MPLS high availability for Ciena ethernet access devices.
• Provided HA architecture and design to support restart of MPLS functionality based on the relevant
  graceful restart RFCs for LDP, RSVP-TE, OSPF, and IS-IS protocols.

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale CA (2007 - 2008)

• Team lead for Juniper's high performance L2/L3 switch/router (EX Series)
• Implemented software for Quality of Service (C)
• Implemented support for Multicast (C)

Technical Leader II, Cisco Systems, San Jose CA (1995-2007)

• 2/06 – 9/07 Technical Leader II, Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
  Developed software to support enterprise solution testing and planning. Performed
  architecture, design, and implementation of high speed network performance
  monitoring tools for data, voice, and video.
• 1/05 - 2/06 Technical Leader II, Cisco Security Technology Group
  Implemented Secure Key Management for encrypted Implicit Tunnels for Cisco
  Enterprise switches. Ported and enhanced an openSSL X.509 certificate management
  proxy.
• 4/00 - 1/05 Technical Leader II (Cisco DSP Team), Cisco Voice Technology Group
  Defined and standardized transport protocol (ITU V.150.1) for transport of modem
  over IP networks. Specified call flows and design for Cisco gateways to support L3
  secure phones used by U.S. Department of Defense based on V.150.1. Designed and
  developed security software for Cisco VoIP platforms supporting secure RTP (on TI
  549 and 5510 DSPs). Designed and implemented MoIP software for a range of Cisco
  VoIP platforms (ATG, VGDBU). Provided design and architecture for video
  surveillance over IP, conferencing and transcoding projects. Designed and
  implemented loss-less codec for wireless cell phone applications (ATG).
• 4/98 - 4/00 Technical Leader I, CISCO, Enterprise Network Management
  Designed and implemented L2/L3 Path Analysis for tracing Layer 2 and Layer 3 path
  of data flow and voice calls for Cisco enterprise line of equipment (including routers,
  L2/L3 switches, voice gateways, IP phones, etc.). This application is written in Java
  and is part of the Campus Manager release. Authored 4 patent applications related to
  L2/L3 and voice path analysis.
• 11/95 - 4/98 Software Eng. IV, StrataCom/CISCO, WAN BU
  Worked on several software re-architecture projects for WANBU
  ATM and frame relay switches (IPX, IGX, BPX) to improve performance.

Project Lead, Authentication & Privacy, Sterling SW @ NASA Ames Mountain View, CA (1995)

• Designed public key cryptographic infrastructure to protect NASA IP networks (C)
• Deployed X.509 PKI key management system (C)
• Designed and implemented crypto applications for secure communication using Fortezza Crypto
  Card (C)

EDUCATION

• UIUC, Illinois, Masters Computer Science (Data Science/Machine Learning) – 2019
• San Diego State Univ, M.S. Medical Physics - 2014
• University of California, Berkeley, CA, Ph.D. Engineering – 1990
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, M.S. Physics – 1984
• Purdue University, B.S. Electrical Engineering - 1982