Adeel Ahmad
[email protected] | adl1995.github.io
WORK EXPERIENCE
Fellow in Authentication Team, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) September 2020 — Present
• Built permanent 2FA for Keycloak. Rolled new SSO to 10k+ users with 80k logins per day. Geneva, Switzerland
• Setup compromised password check to protect $100M LHC control machines from unauthorized access;
resolved 1,177 compromised accounts.
• Maintained 99.9% service availability of Keycloak, troubleshooted time-critical issues manually.
• Built CI/CD pipelines with custom Dockerfiles; reduced deploy time by 4 minutes, saving 200+ dev hours per year.
• Setup Grafana using Prometheus metrics to alert for system downtime via email, Slack, and Telegram.
• Created a custom Flask JSON logger to improve log monitoring using Kibana; saved at least 5 dev hours per week.
• Automated Keycloak configuration management using Puppet, reducing deploy time by 50%.
• Developed an API to manage OIDC and SAML registrations, reducing manual efforts significantly.
Technical Student in Computer Security, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) September 2018 — October 2019
• Developed an incidence response system for copyright infringements (average 50 cases per week). Geneva, Switzerland
• Built an anomalous login activity system in Golang for CERN VMs; alerted user within 10 seconds of login breach.
• Created Puppet modules to install and configure RPM packages, reducing manual effort by 50%.
C++ Software Developer, Google Summer of Code 2018 (Boost C++ Libraries ) May 2018 — August 2018
• Implemented a distance algorithm in Boost C++ library and demonstrated existing inaccuracy in a blog post . (Remote)
• Improved accuracy by 5% and reduced execution time by 10% over the existing approach.
• Wrote unit tests achieving 95% code coverage and performed system benchmarks.
Python Software Developer, Google Summer of Code 2017 (Open Astronomy ) May 2017 – August 2017
• Developed a Python tool to visualize astronomical images, supporting numerous geographical systems. (Remote)
• Used asynchronous programming to reduce fetch latency by 75%.
EDUCATION
Georgia Institute of Technology, Masters of Computer Science, GPA: 3.57/4.0 2021 — Present
Courses: ML for Trading, Network Science, Computer Vision, AI for Robotics, Advanced Operating Systems, Atlanta, GA, US
Computational Photography, Software Analysis & Testing
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Bachelors of Computer Science, GPA: 3.01/4.0 2014 — 2018
Thesis: “Analysis of Structure from Motion Techniques” Islamabad, Pakistan
FEATURED BLOG POSTS
Passwordless Logins with Yubikey (CERN Lightning talk ) February 2021
Trip Planner – A tool for planning a trip itinerary using Google Maps (CERN Lightning talk ) October 2019
COURSE PROJECTS
Machine Learning for Trading September 2022
Created a trading simulator using Q-learning approach. Studied Technical Indicators for finding trends in stock prices.
Computational Photography March 2022
Implemented an image in-painting algorithm to remove objects from pictures, similar to Pixel 6 Magic Eraser.
OPEN-SOURCE PROJECTS
Trip Planner [Python] — Queries Google Maps places based on an input query and exports them to a CSV file (featured on HNews ).
Edge detectors [Python] — Image edge detection algorithms.
TRAININGS AND CONFERENCES
CHEP 2023 May 2023
Presented my work on improving the two factor authentication (2FA) deployment at CERN (Talk ). Norfolk, VA, US
SKILLS
Python, C++, C#, Go, IAM, OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, LDAP, MySQL, Puppet, Docker, Nginx, Grafana, Kibana, PostgreSQL, AWS, GCP
