Syed Faraz Ali

Providing technical support and solution to Fortinet certified partners and customers Running real-time troubleshooting sessions with partners/customers Problem investigation through analysis of packet captures and debug traces Testing and reproducing partner/customer issues in Laboratory Working on escalations from Level 1 technical support team Reporting Software/Hardware related bugs to R&D department Creation of technical documentation and bulletins to improve internal and external knowledge base

Designing, implementing, and maintaining network infrastructure. Configuring and deploying site-to-site and remote access IPSec and VPN solutions, MPLS Layer 3 VPN Cloud and MP-BGP technologies. Performing live device migrations and integration, providing technical support and troubleshooting in terms of upgrading, improving and expansion of customer networks.

Teaching Assistant at Cisco Networking Academy

Research Assistant at Secure Mobile Networking Lab

Responsible for managing Operations & Maintenance of Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE) network ensuring IP Transit services, Internet Backbone Connectivity, high availability, reliability, quality, and trouble free services. Worked in the Operations Team of Pakistan’s first commercial data center with TIA – 942 standards comprising of 150 Tier-3 racks and configured Juniper products including MX-960, EX8216, SRX3600, EX4200 and NSM Express.

Master Thesis - Performance Optimization of a SDN Security Architecture – Fraunhofer SIT, Darmstadt This thesis focused on enhancing the robustness, efficiency and accuracy of the OrchSec architecture by integrating the architecture on HP and Cisco hardware switches.

Bachelor Thesis - Using OFDM to combat ISI caused by multipath effect in Wireless Communication (Group Leader) This thesis focused on Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) research and simulation using MATLAB.