CV

Full CV for Sultan Mahmud Sajal — Performance Engineer at NetApp, Systems Researcher, Ph.D. Penn State.

Contact Information

Name Sultan Mahmud Sajal
Professional Title Performance Engineer & Systems Researcher
Email smsajal116@gmail.com

Professional Summary

Performance Engineer at NetApp and Systems Researcher with a Ph.D. from Penn State. I design and study systems that run at cloud scale — from AI inference infrastructure at Meta to trace-driven evaluation tools deployed in Azure production.

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    San Jose, CA

    Performance Engineer
    NetApp
    • Feature performance engineering for Core Storage Systems
    • Research and prototyping for the AI Data Engine (AIDE)
  • 2024 - 2026

    Menlo Park, CA

    Performance and Capacity Engineer
    Meta Platforms, Inc.
    • AI inference and training infrastructure performance
    • Hardware power budget optimization at fleet scale
  • 2022 - 2022

    Redmond, WA

    Research Intern
    Cloud Operations Research (CORE), Microsoft Research
    • Co-authored Kerveros (OSDI 2023), deployed in Azure production
  • 2021 - 2021

    Redmond, WA

    Research Intern
    Gray Systems Lab (GSL), Microsoft
    • Research on trace-driven evaluation for cloud systems
  • 2018 - 2024

    University Park, PA

    Research & Teaching Assistant
    Pennsylvania State University
    • Research on cloud systems evaluation methodology
    • Teaching assistant for undergraduate systems courses
  • 2017 - 2018

    Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Junior Software Engineer
    Reve Systems

Education

  • 2018 - 2024

    University Park, PA

    Ph.D.
    Pennsylvania State University
    Computer Science and Engineering
    • Dissertation: Improving the Fidelity of Trace-Driven Experiments in Cloud Computing Systems
    • Advisors: Prof. Timothy Zhu and Prof. Bhuvan Urgaonkar
    • Published at OSDI, EuroSys (×2), and ACM TOCS
  • 2013 - 2017

    Dhaka, Bangladesh

    B.Sc.
    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
    Computer Science and Engineering
    • Technical Scholarship recipient

Awards

  • 2024
    Best Paper Runner-Up Award
    EuroSys 2024

    Awarded for TraceUpscaler at the 19th ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (acceptance rate ~17%)

  • 2024
    Student Grant
    EuroSys 2024
  • 2023
    Student Grant
    USENIX OSDI 2023
  • 2020
    Student Grant
    USENIX OSDI 2020
  • 2020
    Registration Grant
    ACM SIGMETRICS 2020
  • 2019
    Student Travel Grant
    ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC)
  • 2018
    Student Travel Grant
    ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC)
  • 2013
    Technical Scholarship
    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Skills

Systems & Infrastructure: Performance Engineering, Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, AI/ML Infrastructure, Storage Systems
Programming: C, C++, Python, Java, Bash
Tools & Platforms: Linux, Docker, Git, Perf, DTrace, Flamegraphs

Languages

English : Fluent
Bengali : Native speaker