Shams Imam
Vice President, Software Engineer at Two Sigma
Houston, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolShams Imam is a vice president and software engineer at Two Sigma, where he applies leadership and engineering depth to scale complex systems. He is a sixth-year PhD candidate at Rice University studying parallel programming models and runtime systems, aiming to simplify multicore programming through cooperative scheduling and flexible synchronization. His PhD thesis, Cooperative Execution of Parallel Tasks with Synchronization Constraints, investigates unifying coordination constructs and includes extensions for speculative computation. He is the lead author of the Habanero-Java library and led implementations across Habanero-Scala, CnC-Scala, CnC-Matlab, and CnC-Python, with work presented at Euro-Par, ECOOP, OOPSLA, and Scala Days. His background includes internships at Oracle Labs and earlier software engineering roles, reflecting a strong bridge between academia and industry. Based in Houston, Texas, Shams holds a BS in Computer Science as valedictorian from North South University and has contributed to teaching and research that advances parallel programming for multicore architectures.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Valedictorian, BS, Computer Science, Valedictorian at North South UniversityO-Levels A-Levels, Engilsh, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, O-Levels A-Levels, Engilsh, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology at Manarat Dhaka International School and CollegeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Rice UniversityMiddle School, Middle School at M.E.S. Indian School
English, Bengali, Hindi
Github Skills (118)
fastcgi10
marathon10
proxy10
websocket10
http210
websockets10
eclipse10
leiningen10
proxy-protocol10
scheduler10
batch10
artemis10
high-performance10
httpd10
autoscaling10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
shamsimam/savina
Oct 2014 - Sep 2018
Savina is an Actor Benchmark Suite.
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 years 11 months
benchmarkingbenchmark-suitebenchmarkactorsuite
twosigma/jet
Jul 2017 - Nov 2022
Jetty9 ring server adapter with WebSocket support via core.async and Jetty9 based HTTP & WebSocket clients (jvm based, no cljs)
Contributions:2 reviews, 103 commits, 69 PRs in 5 years 5 months
wsadapterasyncwebsocket-clientscljs
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