About

I have a multidisciplinary background spanning network mathematics, security engineering, and applied research. My PhD focused on resource allocation and distributed optimisation for wireless networks, and I now lead security engineering work in industry — building backend systems, mitigating DNS abuse, and exploring AI security. I enjoy connecting rigorous theory with practical, production-grade systems.

Experience

  • Engineering Manager, Security — Tucows Inc (2025 – present)

    • Leading the engineering team and cross-functional SDLC security initiatives, while remaining hands-on with backend security and DNS abuse mitigation. Applying AI-driven tooling to strengthen security operations and SDLC workflows.

  • Software Engineer: Back-end & Security — Tucows Inc (2020 – 2025)

    • Built abuse-detection and security tooling for large-scale networked systems (Go, Perl, Lua, Bash); designed REST APIs and a micro-service observability platform (Grafana, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ). Represented Tucows in ICANN's CPH/TechOps working group.

  • Software Consultant: DevOps — Chebucto Community Net (2020)

    • Modernised two-decade-old infrastructure for a volunteer-run community network, migrating ~600 user accounts to new services.

  • Co-Founder & Tech Lead — Wavelite / Haila Technologies (2017 – 2019)

    • See Miscellaneous below for more on this venture-backed IoT startup.

  • Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow — MIT CSAIL (2016 – 2017)

  • Research Fellow — Trinity College Dublin (2015 – 2016)

  • PhD Research Fellow — Nokia Bell Labs (2012 – 2015)

    • See Selected Work for publications from this period.

    Optimization

  • Recommending access points to individual mobile users via automatic group learning. Collaboration with Prof Doug Leith (TCD) and Alex Checco (Sheffield University)

  • Utility Fair Rate Allocation in 802.11/LTE Networks. Collaboration with Prof Doug Leith (TCD)

  • PhD Thesis

  • Presentation at Microsoft Research, Cambridge

  • Utility Fair RAT Selection in Multi-Homed LTE/802.11 Networks. Collaboration with Prof Doug Leith (TCD)

  • Dynamic idle mode control in small cell networks. Collaboration with Prof Doug Leith (TCD), Rouzbeh Razavi (Kent State University), Holger Claussen (Bell Labs,Nokia)

  • Energy-aware configuration of small cell networks. Collaboration with Prof Doug Leith (TCD), Rouzbeh Razavi (Kent State University) Android code for mobility measurements

  • Tilt angle adaptation in LTE networks with advanced interference mitigation. Collaboration with Prof Doug Leith (TCD), Rouzbeh Razavi (Kent State University)

  • Utility fair optimization of antenna tilt angles in LTE networks Collaboration with Prof Doug Leith (TCD), Rouzbeh Razavi (Kent State University)

    • Design and Evaluation

  • Chorus: truly distributed distributed-MIMO. Collaboration with Haraharian Rahul (CSAIL, MIT) and Ezzeldin Hamed (Microsoft Research)

  • Real-time cloud robotics in practical smart city applications. Collaboration with Nazli Khan Beigi (McGill) and Soodeh Farokhi (C2RO Cloud Robatics)

  • LTE Listener. Work at MIT senseable city lab

  • Experimental evaluation of multi-path schedulers for LTE/Wi-Fi devices. Collaboration with Prof Doug Leith (TCD). code for measurements , scheduling code

  • Development of a high speed wideband frequency tunable infra-red laser source for real-time wind turbine array sensing applications. Collaboration with Philip Mitchel and Adrian Janssen (Oclaro)

  • Channel adaptive video stream switching for broadband wireless links. Collaboration with Martin fleury and Mohamed Ghanbari (University of Essex)

  • Adaptive video stream switching for an IEEE 802.16 channel. Collaboration with Martin fleury and Mohamed Ghanbari (University of Essex)

    • Miscellaneous

    I contributed to the launch of a startup, Wavelite (Recently known as HaiLa) in Montreal between March 2017- May 2019. HaiLa is a hardware/software IoT solution that aims at enabling scalable and sustainable development of IoT sensors. The technology addresses the key challenge with limited life time of wireless sensors.

    I worked as the technical lead, contributed towards building functional prototypes, technology roadmap creation, recruiting, and steering the software and hardware development. As a result of our work, we filed a number of provisional patents under "SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PASSIVE WIRELESS DEVICES", in addition to the external patents that were licesnsed through university collaborations.

  • http://www.montrealintechnology.com/wavelite-receives-the-2018-ces-eureka-park-climate-change-award/=3230578

  • White Paper: Impact of the technology on sustainability.

  • https://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?17653

    • Music

    Self-similarity in Music: coming soon