About

Arslan Qadeer is a highly experienced software engineer and PhD candidate at The City College of New York. With over 4.62 years of experience in cutting-edge technologies including cloud infrastructure, microservices, SDN (Software Defined Networking), configuration management, and data center networking, Arslan has a proven track record of improving the experience and satisfaction of global clients. Currently working as a Research Assistant at The City College of New York, Arslan is involved in developing novel algorithms for efficient resource allocation in the Edge Cloud and software-defined networks. He is also working on an NSF project to build an international test bed to support real-world experimentation on next-generation wireless technologies and applications. In his previous roles, Arslan worked as a High Touch Services Intern at Hewlett Packard, where he revamped the existing hardware-based remote lab architecture and created a prototype of a virtual lab for training and education of thousands of customers and support engineers during COVID days. He also worked as a Software Engineer at Xgrid Inc, where he integrated OVN (Open Virtual Network) with OpenStack (CentOS distro) using Ansible playbooks with DPDK as data plane and presented it to the client two weeks ahead of time, resulting in winning another project of value $60K. Arslan also spearheaded the migration of Cisco POC tool from monolithic to microservices-based architecture, resulting in modularized services and enabling seamless & zero downtime upgrades at customer’s end. Arslan holds a Doctor of Philosophy - PhD in Electrical Engineering from The City College of New York, a Master of Science - MS in Information Technology from National University of Science and Technology, and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from University of the Punjab. He possesses a strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and has expertise in software engineering, research, microservices, DevOps, infrastructure, testing, Ansible, iOS, and web development.